Sounds of Silence – Simon & Garfunkle capo on 6th fret
 
 
Intro pick pattern: 3,1,2,1 on Am chord (no index finger)
 
Verse pick pattern: 6,3,2,3, 1,3,2,3, 5,3,2,3, 1,3,2,3
 
 
Am G  Am
 Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again,
 F C F C
Because a vision softly creeping, left it's seeds while I was sleeping,
 F C  Am C
And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remains
   G Am
Within the sound of silence.
 
  G   Am
In restless dreams I walked alone, narrow streets of cobblestone,
   F C F C
‘neath the halo of a street lamp,I turned my collar to the cold & damp
 F C
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
   Am  C    G Am
That split the night,   and touched the sound of silence.
 
 
 G  Am
And in the naked light I saw, ten thousand people, maybe more.
 F C F C
People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening,
 F C
People writing songs that voices never shared
    Am C   G Am
And no one dared,   disturb the sound of silence.
 
 
   G Am
“Fools”, said I, “you do not know”, silence like a cancer grows.
  F C F C
Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might reach you.
 F C Am
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
 C G Am
And echoed, in the wells of silence
 
 
 G  Am
And the people bowed and prayed, to the neon God they made.
  F C F C
And the sign flashed out it's warning, in the words that it was forming.
 F   C
And the sign said, the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
   Am C G Am
And tenement halls,  and whisper'd in the sounds of silence.