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The Sound Of Silence (chromatic)

by Simon & Garfunkel · tab for chromatic harmonica

No bends275 notesHoles 1–6Chromatic
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4 = blow hole 4-4 = draw hole 4’ = bend< = slide in
Hel-lo dark-ness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you a-gain
Be-cause a vis-ion soft-ly creep-ing
Left its seeds while I was sleep-ing
And the vis-ion that was plant-ed in my brain
Still re-mains
With-in the sound of sil-ence
In rest-less dreams I walked a-lone
Nar-row streets of cob-ble-stone
'Neath the ha-lo of a street lamp
I turned my col-lar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed
by the flash of a ne-on light
That split the night
And touched the sound of sil-ence
And in the nak-ed light I saw
Ten thous-and peo-ple, may-be more
Peo-ple talk-ing with-out speak-ing
Peo-ple hear-ing with-out lis-ten-ing
Peo-ple writ-ing songs that
Voic-es nev-er share
And no one dared
Dis-turb the sound of sil-ence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Sil-ence like a can-cer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like sil-ent rain-drops fell
And ech-oed in the wells of sil-ence
And the peo-ple bowed and prayed
To the ne-on god they made
And the sign flashed out its warn-ing
In the words that it was form-ing
And the sign said,
"The words of the proph-ets
are writ-ten on the sub-way walls
And ten-e-ment halls"
And whis-pered in the sounds of sil-ence