Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence

Simon and Garfunkel - Sounds of Silence

capo on 6th fret (normal tuning: EADGBE) (pick the first paragraph, and then the rest is strumming--until the last 3 words)

 

Am                        G

   Hello darkness, my old friend,

                           Am

I've come to talk with you again,

                     F       C

Because a vision softly creeping,

                        F       C

Left it's seeds while I was sleeping,

        F                             C

And the vision that was planted in my brain

        Am

Still remains

           G        Am

Within the sound of silence.

                             G

In restless dreams I walked alone

                        Am

Narrow streets of cobblestone,

                   F        C

'neath the halo of a street lamp,

                          F        C

I turned my collar to the cold and damp

        F                                        C

When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light

               Am

That split the night

                G        Am

And touched the sound of silence.

                         G

And in the naked light I saw

                           Am

Ten thousand people, maybe more.

                   F       C

People talking without speaking,

                   F        C

People hearing without listening,

               F                       C

People writing songs that voices never share

           Am

And no one dare

            G        Am

Disturb the sound of silence.

                         G

Fools said i, you do not know

                      Am

Silence like a cancer grows.

                     F           C

Hear my words that I might teach you,

                    F           C

Take my arms that I might reach you.

       F                           C

But my words like silent raindrops fell,

And echoed

       G        Am

In the wells of silence

                         G

And the people bowed and prayed

                     Am

To the neon God they made.

                         F       C

And the sign flashed out it's warning,

                      F     C

In the words that it was forming.

                       F

And the sign said, the words of the prophets

    Am                    C

Are written on the subway walls

             C

And tenement halls.

                     G         Am

And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.

                    /                  /             

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