Chords posted are in the same key as the recording in 1969. Pick the first paragraph, and then the rest is strumming until the last 3 words. Optionally you can play a Dm instead of a Dsus2 in the first verse, but as suggested the Dsus2 sounds better!
Dsus2 C
Hello darkness, my old friend,
Dsus2
I've come to talk with you again,
Bb F
Because a vision softly creeping,
Bb F
Left it's seeds while I was sleeping,
Bb F
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Dsus2
Still remains
C Dm
Within the sound of silence.
C
In restless dreams I walked alone
Dm
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
Bb F
'neath the halo of a street lamp,
Bb F
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
Bb F
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
Dm
That split the night
C Dm
And touched the sound of silence.
C
And in the naked light I saw
Dm
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
Bb F
People talking without speaking,
Bb F
People hearing without listening,
Bb F
People writing songs that voices never share
Dm
And no one dare
C Dm
Disturb the sound of silence.
C
Fools said i, you do not know
Dm
Silence like a cancer grows.
Bb F
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Bb F
Take my arms that I might reach you.
Bb F
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
C Dm
In the wells of silence
C
And the people bowed and prayed
Dm
To the neon God they made.
Bb F
And the sign flashed out it's warning,
Bb F
In the words that it was forming.
Bb
And the sign said, the words of the prophets
Dm F
Are written on the subway walls
F
And tenement halls.
C Dm
And whisper'd in the sounds of silence.
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