Simon And Garfunkel - Sound Of Silence Chords & Tabs

 

Sound Of Silence Chords & Tabs

Simon And Garfunkel Chords & Tabs

Version: 5 Type: Tab

Sound Of Silence Tab

   
my first tab, so please excuse any mistakes

  verse 1:
 Hel-lo darkness      I've come to visit  Because a vision
      my old friend,      you again.        softly creeping,
  Dm             C                    Dm               F   Bb   F
e|-------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
b|-------------------|-------------------|-------------1-1--3---1---|
g|----------2-2--0---|------------0-0----|---------2-2--------------|
d|-0-0--3-3----------|--------2-2------3-|-3--3-3-------------------|
a|-------------------|-3--3-3------------|--------------------------|
e|-------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|


  Left its seeds while     And the vision that was planted in my
   I was sleeping,             brain still remains,
                Bb   F                              F      Dm
e|-----------------------|------------0-1-2-2-1-0--------------|
b|----------1-1--3---1---|------3-3---------------3-1--3-1-----|
g|------2-2--------------|---------------------------------2---|
d|-3-3-------------------|-3-3---------------------------------|
a|-----------------------|-------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------|-------------------------------------|

                      verse 2:
  Within the Sound    In restless dreams  Narrow streets of
       of Silence.       I walked alone,   cobble stone
  F      C    Dm                    C                 Dm
e|------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
b|-------1----------|-------------------|-----------------|
g|------------------|-----------2-2-0---|---------0-0-----|
d|-3-3-3----2-3-0---|-0-0-0-3-3---------|-----0-0-----3---|
a|------------------|-------------------|-3-3-------------|
e|------------------|-------------------|-----------------|

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  'Neath the halo of a   I turned my collar to    When my eyes were stabbed
       street lamp,        the cold and damp.      by the flash of a neon...
               Bb  F                   Bb            Bb
e|---------------------|------------------------|--------------0-1-1-1-0----|
b|---------1-1-3---1---|-----------1-1-3-3-1----|-----3-3-3--3-----------3--|
g|-----2-2-------------|-------2-2--------------|---------------------------|
d|-3-3-----------------|-3-3-3------------------|-3-3-----------------------|
a|---------------------|------------------------|---------------------------|
e|---------------------|------------------------|---------------------------|


 light that split   and touched the
   the night.       Sound of Silence.
             Dm               Dm
e|---------------|-------------------|
b|-1---1-3-1-----|-------1-----------|
g|-----------2---|-------------------|
d|---------------|-3-3-3-----2-3-0---|
a|---------------|-------------------|
e|---------------|-------------------|

verse 3: And in the naked light i saw, Ten thousand people maybe more.      People
without speaking. People hearing without listning. People writing songs that voices never
And no one dared, Disturb the Sound of Silence.

verse 4: "Fools" said I, "You do not know, Silence like a cancer grows. Hear my words
I might teach you. Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words like silent
fell, and echoed, Within the Wells of Silence.

verse 5: And the people bowed and prayed, To the neon god they made. And the sign
out its warning, In the words that it was forming. And the sign said, "The words of the
are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls, And whispered in the Sounds of Silence."

outro:
  Asus      Asus      Asus
e|---0---0----0---0---0------|
b|-----0--------0------0-----|
g|-2--------2-----------2----|
d|-----------------------2---|
a|------------------------0--|
e|-------------------------0-|