The Sound Of Silence

Chords

Standard

This version is a half step higher than the original song to make the intro easier to play (if you want to sound just like the original, you can tune your uke down a half step)

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                                      Hello darkness, my old
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     friend,                         I've come to talk to you 

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    again,                            Because a vision soft-

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    -ly creeping,                     Left it's seeds while I

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    was sleeping,                        and the vision

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          That was planted        in my    brain

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          still remains                           within the

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   sound                     of silence

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Em                           D
In restless dreams I walked alone 

                         Em
Narrow streets of cobblestone, 

                  C        G
Neath the halo of a street lamp, 

                          C        G
I turned my collar to the cold and damp

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

                Em
That split the night

                  D        Em
And touched the sound of silence


                          D
And in the naked light I saw

                         Em
ten thousand people maybe more

                  C        G
people talking without speaking

                  C        G
people hearing without listening

                  C                     G
people writing songs that voices never share

       Em
no one dare

              D        Em
disturb the sound of silence


                          D
Fools said I you do not know,

                        Em
silence like a cancer grows,

                      C        G
hear my words that I might teach you

                      C        G
take my arms that I might reach you

          C                           G
but my words like silent raindrops fell

    Em         D        Em
and echoed the will of silence


                          D
And the people bowed and prayed,

                      Em
to the neon god they made

                          C       G
And the sign flashed out its warning

                      C        G
in the words that it was forming

                       C
And the sign said the words of the prophets

                            G
are written on the subway walls, and tenement halls

     Em            D        Em
and whisper the sounds of silence