Vincent- Don Mc Lean

Guess the Word to complete the lines in the first two stanzas
Starry, starry 1) ___________
Paint your palette blue and 2) _____
Look out on a summers 3) ______
With eyes that know the darkness in my 4) ______
Shadows on the 5) _______
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter 6) ________
In colours on the snowy linen 7) ______
Now I understand
What you tried to say, to 8) _____
And how you suffered for your 9) _______
And how you tried to set them 10) _______
They would not listen, they did not know
Perhaps theyll listen now

Complete the following stanza with the following words

Weather
ed

flami
ng

bright
ly

ambe
r

morni
ng

pain

sooth
ed

Starry, starry night

11) __________flowers that 12) ___________blaze
13) _________clouds in 14) ___________haze
Reflect in Vincents eyes of 15) __________blue
Colours changing 16) __________
17) __________fields of 18) __________ grain
19) __________faces lined in 20) _________
Are 21) __________ beneath the artists 22) _________hand
-Chorus
Order the following lines:
____this world was never meant
____on that starry, starry night
____you took your life as lovers often do
____and when no hope was true
____but I couldve told you, Vincent
____for they could not love you
____for one as beautiful as you

lovin
g

china hue

viole
t

Sw
ng

Write the opposite word to the one in parenthesis

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in (crowded) _______halls
(Framed)________heads on (named) _______walls
With eyes that watch the world and cant (remember)________
Like the (friends) ___________that youve met
The (elegant) __________men in (elegant) _______clothes
The silver thorn of (white) ______rose
Lie (pressed softly) _______and (in one piece) ______on the virgin snow.
Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, theyre not listening still
Perhaps they never will
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch painter