I missed a good fingerpicking chord version of this fabolous song.
The fingerpicking you have to find out for yourself, or turn to the tab-version of
course. Or play along with YouTube.
The number between brackets after the G chord means it's a different chord form
than played elsewhere. See chord diagrams.
G Gadd11 - G
Starry, starry night
Am Asus2 Am
paint your palette blue and grey
Am Am/C [ch]Asus2/C[/ch]
Look out on a summer's day
D7 G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Gaddd11 G Gadd11 - G
Shadows on the hills,
Am Asus2 Am
sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Am Am/C [ch]Asus2/C[/ch]
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
D7 G
in colours on the snowy linen land.
Gsus4-G(no3)-Gsus4-G(2)-Gsus2
G Am Asus2 D7 G G/F#
Now I understand what you tried to say to me.
Em Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free.
A7 Am7 D7 G
They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now.
GM7(no5)-G6(no5)-G(3)
G Gadd11 - G
Starry, starry night,
Am Asus2 Am
flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Am Am/C [ch]Asus2/C[/ch]
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D7 G
reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Gaddd11 G Gadd11 - G
Colours changing hue,
Am Asus2 Am
morning fields of amber grain
Am Am/C [ch]Asus2/C[/ch]
Weathered faces lined in pain
D7 G
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
G Am Asus2 D7 G G/F#
Now I understand what you tried to say to me.
Em Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free.
A7 Am7 D7 G
They would not listen, they did not know how. Perhaps they'll listen now.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/d/don_mclean/vincent_crd_ver_5.html ]
G Am Asus4 D7 G G/F#
For they could not love you but still your love was true
Em Am7 Cm
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night,
G F6add#11 E7 Am7
You took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent,
C Am7 D7 G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.
Gsus4-G(no3)-Gsus4-G(2)-Gsus2
G Gadd11 - G
Starry, starry night,
Am Asus2 Am
portraits hung in empty halls,
Am Am/C [ch]Asus2/C[/ch]
Frameless heads on nameless walls
D7 G
with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Gadd11 G Gadd11-G
Like the strangers that you've met,
Am Asus2 Am
the ragged men in ragged clothes,
Am Am/C [ch]Asus2/C[/ch]
The silver thorn, the bloody rose
D7 G
like crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
G Am Asus2 D7 G G/F#
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me.
Em Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free.
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
D7 G
perhaps they never will.
Gadd11 G - G(4) G6(no5) G(4) Gadd9 G
Verse
G 3x0003
Gadd11 3x0013
Am x02210
Asus2 x02200
Am/C x32210
[ch]Asus2/C[/ch] x32200
D7 xx0212
Transition between verse 1 and verse 2, and between bridge and verse 3
Gsus4 3x001x
G(no3) 3x003x
G(2) 3x000x
Gsus2 3200xx
Chorus
G 3x0003
Am x02210
Asus2 x02200
D7 xx0212
G/F# 3x0003
Em 0x2000
Am7 x02010
A7 x02020
Transition between first chorus and verse 2
GM7(no5) 3xx002
G6(no5) 3xx000
G(3) 3x003x
Extro
Gadd11 3x0013
G 3x0003
G(4) 3200xx
G6(no5) 3220xx
Gadd9 3202xx
