Vincent Chords
by Don McLean
Vincent by Don McLean is a more advanced guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, G4, Am, A9, C, D7, G/F#, Em, A7, Am7, Cm, F and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: G
G4 G
Starry, starry night
Am A9 Am
Paint your palette blue and gray
C
Look out on a summer's day
D7 G
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G4 G
Shadows on the hills
Am A9 Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
D7 G C G
In colors on the snowy linen land
Am D7 G G/F# Em
Now I understand, what you tried to say to me
Am D7
And how you suffered for your sanity
Em
How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they did not know how
D7 G G4 G
Perhaps they'll listen now
G G4 G
Starry, starry night
Am A9 Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
C
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D7 G
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
G4 G
Colors changing hue
Am A9 Am
Morning fields of amber grain
C
Weathered faces lined in pain
D7 G
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Am D7 G G/F# Em
Now I understand, what you tried to say to me
Am D7
And how you suffered for your sanity
Em
How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they did not know how
D7 G
Perhaps they'll listen now
Am D7
For they could not love you
G Em
But still your love was true
Am
And when no hope was left inside
Cm
On that starry, starry night
G F E7
You took your life as lovers often do
Am
But I could have told you, Vincent
C D7 G C G
This world was never meant for one as, beautiful as you
G4 G
Starry, starry night
Am A9 Am
Portraits hung in empty halls
C
Frameless heads on nameless walls
D7 G
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
G4 G
Like the strangers that you've met
Am A9 Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes
C
A silver thorn, a bloody rose
D7 G
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Am D7 G G/F# Em
Now I think I know, what you tried to say to me
Am D7
And how you suffered for your sanity
Em
How you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
D7 G
Perhaps they never will...