The Sound Of Silence Tab par Simon And Garfunkel

Use this picking pattern while changing chords at the beginning.
A|----0---0---0---0-----------------------|
E|------0-------0-------------------------|
C|--0-------0--------repeat---------------|
G|----------------------------------------|

**Finger picking**

Em                    D
Hello darkness my old friend
                            Em
I've come to talk with you again
            G       C       G
Because a vision softly creeping
                       C      G
Left it seeds while I was sleeping
          C                            G
And the vision that was planted in my brain
         Em
Still remains
             D         Em
Within the sound of silence

**Strumming**

Em                            D 
In restless dreams I walked alone
                          Em
Narrow streets of cobblestone
             G     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


Em                       D 
And in the naked light I saw
                           Em
Ten thousand people, maybe more
           G       C       G
People talking without speaking
                   C        G
People hearing without listening
               C                       G
People writing songs that voices never share
            Em
And no one dared
             D         Em
Disturb the sound of silence


  Em                        D 
"Fools" said I "You don't know
                        Em
Silence like a cancer grows
         G              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 in the wells of silence


Em                         D
And the people bowed and prayed
                      Em
To the neon god they made
         G                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                  Em
Are written on the subway walls and tenement halls
    G                 D         Em
And whispered in the sounds of silence"