Vincent
Don McLean · 1971
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Starry, starry night
- Paint your palette blue and gray
- Look out on a summer's day
- With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Echo the hook
- Perhaps they'll listen now
- Starry, starry night
- Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
- Swirling clouds in violet haze
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
And how you suffered for your sanity
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Perhaps they'll listen now
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
How you tried to set them free
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You took your life as lovers often do
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
As beautiful as you
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Paint your ? blue and gray
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
And how you ? for your sanity
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Reflect in ? eyes of china blue
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
You ? your life as lovers often do
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
With eyes that ? the world and can't forget
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "starry" in the whole song?
"starry"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "tried" in the whole song?
"tried"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- But I could have told you, Vincent
- Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
- Starry, starry night
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- Paint your palette blue and gray
- Perhaps they'll listen now
- Portraits hung in empty halls
Exercise 26
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Vincent", what would happen instead?
Exercise 27
Describe the mood of "Vincent" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?
Exercise 28
Who in your life would you dedicate "Vincent" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
they'll→can't→you've→they're→
Exercise 30
"Vincent" was released in 1971. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.