{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":159157,"song":"The Sound Of Silence","artist":"Simon & Garfunkel","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/159157-the-sound-of-silence-chords-by-simon-garfunkel/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/159157?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":17495,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]Am[/ch]                        [ch]G[/ch]\r\n   Hello darkness, my old friend,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've come to talk with you again,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBecause a vision softly creeping,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLeft its seeds while I was sleeping,[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the vision that was planted in my brain[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nStill remains[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWithin the sound of silence.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]                             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn restless dreams I walked alone[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nNarrow streets of cobblestone,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]\r\n'neath the halo of a street lamp,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI turned my collar to the cold and damp[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]                                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat split the night[/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd touched the sound of silence.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd in the naked light I saw[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTen thousand people, maybe more.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPeople talking without speaking,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPeople hearing without listening,[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]F[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nPeople writing songs that voices never share[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd no one dare[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDisturb the sound of silence.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFools said I, you do not know[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSilence like a cancer grows.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHear my words that I might teach you,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTake my arms that I might reach you.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut my words like silent raindrops fell,[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd echoed in the wells of silence[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the people bowed and prayed[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nTo the neon god they made.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd the sign flashed out its warning,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the words that it was forming.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd the sign said, the words of the prophets[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAre written on the subway walls[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]C/B[/ch] [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd tenement halls[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd whisper'd in the sounds of silence.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]","chords":["Am","G","F","C","C/B"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}