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Vincent (Starry Night) (Chrom C)

by Don McLean · posted by marion

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
(Guitar Plays 1st Line)
-5  6  7  -7  -8__
Starry starry night
-8  -7  7  6  -7  -8  6__
Paint your palette blue and gray
-8  -7  7  6  -7  -8  6__
Look out on a summer's day
-6*  7  -6*  6  -5  6  -6*  7  -7  -8__
In colors on the snowy linen land

-5  6  7  -7  -8
Shadows on the hills
-8  -7  7  6  -7  -8  6
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
-8  -7  7  6  -7  -8  6
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
-6*  7  -6*  6  -5  6  -6*  7  -7  7__
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
(Short Pause 1st Time)

7  -7  -8  7  -7__
Now I understand
-7  -8  9  -9  -8  -8  -8__
What you tried to say to me
-8  9  -8  -7  7  6  -8  -7  -7__
How you suffered for your sanity
-7  -7  -7  -8  9  -7  -8
How you tried to set them free
-8  -8  9  -8  -7  7  6  -7  -8  6__
They would not listen they did not know how
-5  -6*  7  -7  -6*  7 (Repeat Line Slow on Ending)
Perhaps they'll listen now
(Repeat)

3  3  -3  -4  -4  -3__
For they could not love you
-1  -3  -3 -4  5  -5__
But still your love was true
-4  5  -5  6  -5  -5  5  5  -4
And when no hope was left inside
-4  5  -5*  -5  -5  5  -5
On that starry starry night
6  -5  5  5  -4  -4  3  -3  -4  -4__
You took your life as lovers often do
-4  -4  5  -4  -4  -3  -3  -4
But I could have told you Vincent
-4  5  -4  -4  -3  -3  3  -2*  3  -4  -3  3  -2*  3__
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
(Repeat 1st Three Verses)

Starry starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They did not listen, they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

This plays with karaoke music, same Artist, run time 4:07.
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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