TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
Star ry, star ry (G6)night,
paint your pal ette (Am)blue and grey.
Look out on a (C)sum mer’s day,
with (D7)eyes that know the dark ness in my (G6)soul.
Shad ows on the hills,
the sketch the trees and the (Am)daf fo dils,
the catch the breeze and the (C)win ter chills,
in (D7)col ors on the snow y lin en (G)land.
Now I un der (Am)stand
what you tried to (G)say to me,
how you suf fered for your (Am7)san i ty,
how you tried to set them (Em)free.
They would not lis ten, they did (A7)not know how.
Per (D7)haps they’ll lis ten (G)now.
Star ry, star ry (G6)night,
flam ing flow’rs that (Am)bright ly blaze.
Swirl ing clouds in (C)vio let haze
re (D7)flect in Vin cent’s eyes of Chi na (G6)blue.
Col ors chang ing hue,
the sketch the trees and the (Am)am ber grain,
the catch the breeze and the (C)lined in pain
are (D7)soothed be neath the art ist’s lov ing (G)hand.
Now I un der (Am)stand
what you tried to (G)say to me,
how you suf fered for your (Am7)san i ty,
how you tried to set them (Em)free.
They would not lis ten, they did (A7)not know how.
Per (D7)haps they’ll lis ten (G)now.
Star ry, star ry (G)now.
For they could not (Am7)love you;
but still your love was (G)true.
And when no (Am7)hope was left in sight on that (Cm6)star ry, star ry night, you (G)took your life, as (F7)lov ers of ten (E7)do.
But I (Am7)could have told you, Vin cent, this (C)world was nev er meant for one as beau ti ful as (G)you.
Star ry, star ry (A7)lis t’ning still.
Per (D7)haps they nev er (G)will.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- G
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Plays
- 37
- Chords
- A7 Am Am7 C Cm6 D7 E7 Em
- Category
- Rock
- Artist
- Don McLean