Simon & Garfunkel - The sound of silence
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Capo: 6
Tuning: E A D G B E
Tabbed for two guitars form this great rendition on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhwq3lrObNU
Made a few changes to sing with a female voice, but essentially the same.
Guitar 1 picks entire song.
Guitar 2 joins in verse two strumming.
[For male female version. Guitar 1, standard tuning, no capo. Guitar 2, standard tuning, capo 5th fret]
[Guitar 1 Capo 6th fret]
[Intro/Verse]
e|----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0------------------|
B|------0-------0-------0-------0--------------------|
G|--2-------2-------2-------2------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|--0------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|
[Repeat from here]
e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|----3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3------------------|
G|--0---2---4---2---0---2---4---2--------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
E|--3------------------------------------------------|
e|----0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-----------------|
B|------0---1---0-------0---1---0-------------------|
G|--2---------------2-------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------|
A|--0-----------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------|
Fmaj7 C (first time through)
e|----------------0-1-0----|----------------------------|
B|--------0---1---------1--|----1---0-------------------|
G|----2---------0---------0|------0---------------------|
D|------3------------------|----------------------------|
A|----------3--------------|--3-------------------------|
E|--1----------------------|----------------------------|
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------1---1---1-------1---1---0---1-----------------------------|
G|----2-----3---2-----2-----3---2---------0---0---0---0-------------|
D|------3---------------3---------------2---3---2-------------------|
A|----------------------------------3---------------3---3-2---------|
E|--1---------------1-----------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------------------0---0---0---0----|
B|--------1-------1---3---3---3---0------0---1---0------|
G|----2-------2-----0---2---4---2---2----------------2--|
D|------2-------2------------------------------------2--|
A|--0-------0-----------------------0----------------0--|
E|------------------3--------------------------------0--|
[Repeat]
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
[Guitar 2 Dropped D]
In restless dreams I walked aloDne
Narrow streets of cobblesEtone
Beneath the halo ofC a street lGamp
I turned my collar to the Ccold and Gdamp
When my Ceyes were stabbed by the flash of a neonG light
That split the nEight E
And touched the Dsound of Esilence
And in the naked light I sDaw
Ten thousand people, maybe mEore
People talking withCout speakinGg
People hearing withoCut listenGing
People writing Csongs that voices never Gshare
And no one Edared E
Disturb the Dsound of Esilence
"Fools, " said I, "You do not Dknow
Silence, like a cancer, Egrows
Hear my words that I Cmight teach Gyou
Take my arms that I Cmight reach Gyou"
But my Cwords, like silent raindrops Gfell E
echoed in the wellDs, of sileEnce
And the people bowed and Dprayed
To the neon god they Emade
And the sign flashed out itCs warningG
In the words that it waCs formingG
And the sign said, "The Cwords of the prophets are written on the subway Gwalls
And tenement Ehalls" E
whispered in the sounDds of sileEnce