Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound Of Silence (Guitar Tab)

Capo 1
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The end of the song contains the same solo as the end of the first verse. [Verse 1]
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                                        Hello darkness my old    friend,

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        I've   come   to   talk  with you a-      gain

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        Because  a  vision  soft-  ly    creep-   ing ---           left it's

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     seeds while I  was  sleep-   ing                                  And the

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     vision ---     that was      planted          in   my       brain

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        still re-   mains --      within the      sounds          of

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     silence -----
Remaining verses strummed: [Verse 2] C In restless dreams I walked alone, Dm narrow streets of cobblestone F Bb F 'neath the halo of a streetlamp Bb F I turned my collar to the cold and damp Bb F when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light Dm C Dm split the night... and touched the sound of silence [Verse 3] And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people maybe more people talking without speaking people hearing without listening people writing songs that voices never share noone dare, disturb the sound of silence [Verse 4] Fools said I you do not know, silence like a cancer grows, hear my words that I might teach you take my arms that I might reach you but my words, like silent raindrops fell... and echoed the will of silence [Verse 5] And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning in the words that it was forming And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls and whisper the sounds of silence."