Vincent Van Gogh by Don McLean

Author Victoria Lady Bug 

Source: www.englishexercises.org

Listen to this beautiful song

and complete the missing words:

gray

eyes

clouds

starry hand

winter

blue

snow

suffered

night

world

know  beautiful

colors

clothes

Vincent

love  listen

rose

,  night:
Paint your palette  and .
Look out on a summer's day
With  that know the darkness in my soul.
  Shadows on the .

Sketch the  and the daffodils:
Catch the breeze and the  chills
In   on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me,
And how you    for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free.
They would not ; they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
, starry :
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze;
Swirling  in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's  of China blue.
 changing hue:
Morning fields of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving .

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

For they could not love you
But still, your  was true.
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry 
You took your life as lovers often do.
But I could've told you, 

This  was never meant
For one as  as you.

Starry, starry night:
Portraits hung in empty halls:
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the and can't forget;
Like the strangers that you've met:
The ragged men in ragged 
The silver thorn, a bloody 

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin
Now I think I 

What you tried to say to me,
And how you  for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free.
They would not ; they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will.