Chords for Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence (Live Canadian TV, 1966)
Tempo:
117.7 bpm
Chords used:
F
Bb
Dm
C
D
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret

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[D]
[N] One of the biggest hang-ups we have today is the inability of people to communicate
not only on an intellectual level but on an emotional level as well
unable to love other people
to communicate, it's called Sounds [D] of Silence
[A] Hello darkness [C] my old friend
[D]
[Dm] Because [F] it visioned [Bb] softly [F] creeping
[N] One of the biggest hang-ups we have today is the inability of people to communicate
not only on an intellectual level but on an emotional level as well
unable to love other people
to communicate, it's called Sounds [D] of Silence
[A] Hello darkness [C] my old friend
[D]
[Dm] Because [F] it visioned [Bb] softly [F] creeping
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ One of the biggest hang-ups we have today is the inability of people to communicate
not only on an intellectual level but on an emotional level as well
so you have people [B] unable to _ touch other people, unable to love other people
and this is a song about the inability to communicate, it's called Sounds [D] of Silence _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ Hello darkness [C] my old friend
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ Because [F] it visioned [Bb] softly [F] creeping
_ _ Left its seeds while [Bb] I was [F] sleeping
_ _ And [Bb] the vision _ that was planted in my [F] brain
_ _ [D] Still remains
_ [E] _ [F] Within [C] the sound _ [Dm] of _ silence
In restless dreams I [C] walked alone _ _ _ _
Narrow streets of [Dm] _ cobblestone _ _
[F] Near the halo [Bb] of a [F] street lamp
I turned my collar to [Bb] the cold and [F] damp _
When my eyes were snapped by the flash of a neon [F] light
That split the night _ [Dm] _ [Em] _ [F] and [C] touched the sound _
[Dm] How silent _ _ that in the vacant [C] light I saw _ _ _
People [D] maybe [Dm] more
_ _ People [Bb] talking without [F] speaking _ _
People hearing without listening _ _
People writing [Bb] _ _ songs
That voices never [F] share
_ No one [Dm] dare _ [F] _ [C] disturb the sound
[Dm] Of silence
_ _ _ Blues that I do [C] not know
_ _ _ Silence like a [Dm] cancer grows
_ _ _ Hear my words that [Bb] I might [F] teach you
_ Take my arms [Bb] that I might [F] reach _ you
But [Bb] my words like silent raindrops [F] fill
_ _ _ _ [D] _
[F] An echo
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ And the people [C] bowed and _ prayed
To the neon god [Dm] they _ _ made
[F] And the sign [Bb] flashed in [F] the morning
_ _ In the world that [Bb] it was [F] forming
_ _ And the sign [Bb] said the words of the prophet
Are written on the subway [F] _ walls
[Dm] A tenement called
The _ _ _ _ _ [C]
Sound _ _ _ [A] of Silence
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[N] _ One of the biggest hang-ups we have today is the inability of people to communicate
not only on an intellectual level but on an emotional level as well
so you have people [B] unable to _ touch other people, unable to love other people
and this is a song about the inability to communicate, it's called Sounds [D] of Silence _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ Hello darkness [C] my old friend
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ Because [F] it visioned [Bb] softly [F] creeping
_ _ Left its seeds while [Bb] I was [F] sleeping
_ _ And [Bb] the vision _ that was planted in my [F] brain
_ _ [D] Still remains
_ [E] _ [F] Within [C] the sound _ [Dm] of _ silence
In restless dreams I [C] walked alone _ _ _ _
Narrow streets of [Dm] _ cobblestone _ _
[F] Near the halo [Bb] of a [F] street lamp
I turned my collar to [Bb] the cold and [F] damp _
When my eyes were snapped by the flash of a neon [F] light
That split the night _ [Dm] _ [Em] _ [F] and [C] touched the sound _
[Dm] How silent _ _ that in the vacant [C] light I saw _ _ _
People [D] maybe [Dm] more
_ _ People [Bb] talking without [F] speaking _ _
People hearing without listening _ _
People writing [Bb] _ _ songs
That voices never [F] share
_ No one [Dm] dare _ [F] _ [C] disturb the sound
[Dm] Of silence
_ _ _ Blues that I do [C] not know
_ _ _ Silence like a [Dm] cancer grows
_ _ _ Hear my words that [Bb] I might [F] teach you
_ Take my arms [Bb] that I might [F] reach _ you
But [Bb] my words like silent raindrops [F] fill
_ _ _ _ [D] _
[F] An echo
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ And the people [C] bowed and _ prayed
To the neon god [Dm] they _ _ made
[F] And the sign [Bb] flashed in [F] the morning
_ _ In the world that [Bb] it was [F] forming
_ _ And the sign [Bb] said the words of the prophet
Are written on the subway [F] _ walls
[Dm] A tenement called
The _ _ _ _ _ [C]
Sound _ _ _ [A] of Silence
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _