C               F         C           Dm     
Starry, starry  night, paint your palette blue and grey
F                               G                            C   F    C
Look out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
C                  F         C             Dm
Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and daffodills
 F                                       G              C
Catch the breeze and winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land      


[Chorus]

       Dm                G         C       C/B       Am
And now I under stand what you tried to Say to me,
                       Dm       G                     Am
how you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free,     
                       D           Dm                  G          C      F     C
they would not listen, they did not know how,  Perhaps they'll listen   now


[Verse]                     
 
C               F         C           Dm                     
Starry, starry  night, flaming flowers that Brightly blaze, 
F                               G                            C   F    C
swirling clouds in violet haze Reflecting Vincent’s eyes of China Blue
C               F         C           Dm     
Colors changing hue, Morning fields of amber grain
 F                                       G                             C
Weathered faces lined with pain Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand


[Chorus]

  Dm             G         C       C/B       Am
And now I under stand what you tried to Say to me,
Am                         Dm       G                     Am
how you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free, 
D           Dm                 G          C      F     C
they would not listen, they did not know how,  Perhaps they'll listen   now


[Bridge]

                      Dm          G            C       C/B           Am
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
              Dm                              Fm
And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night, 
        C          Gm          A7
you took your life as lovers sometimes do
Dm                                      F     
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was 
                             G          C
Never meant for one as beautiful as     you


[Verse]

C               F         C           Dm             
Starry, starry  night, portraits hung in Empty halls,  
                 F                     G                      C   F    C
fearless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
                 C              F         C           Dm
Like the strangers that you’ve met The ragged men in ragged clothes 
                       F                  G              C
The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie Crushed and broken on the virgin snow


[Chorus]

 Dm              G         C       C/B       Am
And now I under stand what you tried to Say to me,
Am                         Dm       G                     Am
how you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free, 

 D           Dm                 G          C      F     C
They would not listen, they’re not listening still,Perhaps the never will