Vincent, My friend

I heard a song that made me sad,About a life that made me glad,

It was about a man named Vincent,

And how his life touched the world;

He was a soul lost in a world

That couldn′t see the colors

Through his eyes,

Vincent, my friend

The colors you saw fill my life,

Vincent, my friend,

I wish that you could see

What those colors of your life mean to me;

I heard a song that made me cry,

About a man who soon would die,

It was a story of a life much too brief,

About a man full of grief,

He was a soul lost in a world

That couldn't see the colors

Through his eyes,

Vincent, my friend

No one you knew could see

How you changed the rainbow

For all the world to see;

Vincent, my friend,

Your love gave life to me;

I heard a song about a man,

Who painted his soul

In a night of stars,

He may not have known

That through his eyes we now see,

The colors that only from his love

Came to be;

Vincent, my friend

I wish that you could see

What those colors from your life

Mean to me;

What those colors from your life,

Mean to me;

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Vincent, My Friend – Historical Facts and Background

This song is my tribute to the great song: "Vincent",

By Don McLean, and also a tribute to the life and art of

Vincent Van Gogh. The song by Don McLean is absolutely

Brilliant. I have loved it ever since I first heard it.

My song is intended as a complement to Don McLean′s

Work, and to the life of Vincent Van Gogh.

It was Don McLean's music, lyrics, and performance,

That inspired me to write my song. And, it was a recent

60 Minutes broadcast, on CBS, about Vincent, and how

He actually died, that triggered the completion of my song.

Another good story is that in the 60 Minutes episode,

New clues about Van Gogh's death were revealed.

It seems that he did not commit suicide after all,

As is the current history. Indeed, even the film with

Kirk Douglas ends with Vincent committing suicide

In the fields of corn, shortly after completing

The painting: "Fields of Corn with Crows". However, as this

60 Minutes documentary points out, Van Gogh actually

Completed that painting some two weeks before he

Died, and had in fact painted several other paintings after that.

At that time, in 1890, the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show

Was in France, and a lot of the young teenagers of

The time played "Cowboys and Indians".

Except, they did so with real guns!

In the 1950′s, a Frenchman -- whose name I can′t

Remember -- told the story of how he and his friends,

Then 16 years old, would mercilessly tease the "crazy painter",

Van Gogh, and would make endless fun of him, and his

Mental illness. Although he did not confess, the evidence

Suggests that he, and his friends, then dressed as Cowboys

And carrying a real hand gun, accidentally shot Van Gogh

As he was coming home from the fields of corn

One late afternoon.

Since Van Gogh was shot in the abdomen, at an angle

Which precluded a self-inflicted wound, the forensic

Evidence – such as it exists after all this time – does

Lead to a reasonable suspicion that Van Gogh was

In fact murdered. Or, at least shot by these malicious

Youths, trying to play Cowboys and Indians just like

In the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show they just saw.

Van Gogh himself told the local police not to look

For anyone. As his last act of love, he covered up

His own murder.

And that's why I wanted to tell the story in my song.