Starry Starry ^G night paint your pallete ^Ami blue and grey Look out on a ^C summers day with ^D7 eyes that know the darkness in my ^G soul Shadows on hills sketch the tress and ^Ami daffodils Catch the breeze and the ^C winter chill In ^D7 colors on the snowy linen ^G land Ref.: ^{C G} And now I under^Amistand ^D7 what you tried to ^G say to me ^Emi How you suffered for you ^Am7 sanity ^D7 How you tried to set them ^Emi free They would not listen they did ^A7 not know how ^Ami7 perhaps ^D7 they'll listen ^G now Starry starry nite flamings flowr's that brightly blaze Swirling coulds in violet haze reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber graing Weatherd faces lined inpain Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand Ref. + {listen now} ^G For the could not ^Ami7 love you ^D7 but still your love was ^G true ^Emi And when no ^Ami7 hope was left in sight on that ^Cmi6 starry starry nite You ^G took you life as ^F7 lovers often ^E7 do But I ^Ami7 could of told you Vinvent This ^C world was never meant for one as ^D7 beautiful as ^G you Starry starry nite portraits hung in empty halls frameless heads on nameless walls with i's that watch the world and cant forget Like the strangers that youve met, the ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn the bloody rose Lire crushed and broken on the virgin snow Ref.: ^{C G} And now I think I ^Ami know ^D7 what you tried to ^G say to me ^Emi How you suffered for you ^Ami7 sanity ^D7 How you tried to set them ^Emi free They would not listen theyre not ^A7 listening still ^Ami7 perhaps ^D7 they never will