Sounds of Silence
instrument
ukulele
mandolin
guitar
baritoneuke
key
Em (-5)
Fm (-4)
Gbm (-3)
Gm (-2)
Abm (-1)
Am
Bbm (+1)
Bm (+2)
Cm (+3)
Dbm (+4)
Dm (+5)
Ebm (+6)
chord size
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layout
inline
letters above
diagrams above
lyrics only
ukulele
[Am]
[C]
[F]
[G]
[
Am
]
Hallo darkness, my old
[
G
]
friend, I`ve come to talk to you
[
Am
]
again,
because a
[
C
]
vision softly
[
F
]
is cree
[
C
]
ping,
left its seeds while I
[
F
]
was slee
[
C
]
ping,
and the
[
F
]
vision that was planted in my
[
C
]
brain, still re
[
Am
]
mains,
within the
[
G
]
sound of
[
Am
]
silence.
[
Am
]
In restless dreams I walked
[
G
]
alone, narrow streets of cobble
[
Am
]
stone.
`Neath the
[
C
]
halo of
[
F
]
a street
[
C
]
lamp,
I turned my collar to the
[
F
]
cold and
[
C
]
damp,
when my
[
F
]
eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon
[
C
]
light,
that split the
[
Am
]
night - and touched the
[
G
]
sound of
[
Am
]
silence.
[
Am
]
And in the naked light I
[
G
]
saw, ten thousand people, maybe
[
Am
]
more,
people
[
C
]
talking wi
[
F
]
thout spea
[
C
]
king, people hearing wi
[
F
]
thout
[
C
]
listening,
people writing
[
F
]
songs that voices never
[
C
]
share,
and no-one
[
Am
]
dare - disturb the
[
G
]
sounds of
[
Am
]
silence.
[
Am
]
Fools, said I, you do not
[
G
]
know, silence like a cancer
[
Am
]
grows,
hear my
[
C
]
words, that I
[
F
]
might teach
[
C
]
you,
take my arms that I
[
F
]
might reach
[
C
]
you,
But my
[
F
]
words like silent raindrops
[
C
]
fell -
[
Am
]
and echoed in the
[
G
]
wells of
[
Am
]
silence.
[
Am
]
And the people bowed and
[
G
]
prayed to the neon god they`d
[
Am
]
made.
And the
[
C
]
sign flashed out
[
F
]
its war
[
C
]
ning, in the words that it
[
F
]
was for
[
C
]
ming.
And the sign said, the
[
F
]
words of the prophets are written
in the subway
[
C
]
walls, and tenement
[
Am
]
halls ,
and whispered in the
[
G
]
sounds - of
[
Am
]
silence.