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The Sound of Silence (Disturbed Version) (ORCHESTRA)

by Paul Simon As Sung by David Draiman · posted by EarthDogHarpin

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How to read this tab — notation key
+
Blow note
−
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab
Range  C#4 to A5
Transcribed from 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
Tabbed for EITHER an ORCHESTRA tuned Chromatic
OR a 14 Hole Chromatic.

Tab notations
none = blow    - = draw    * = button in
. &ndash; on lower register; first 4 holes of a 16 hole chromatic
8_-8 = slur; slide smoothly from note to note


-4*   -4* -5   -5    6* 6*  -6
Hel - lo  dark-ness, my old friend

5*   5*   5* 5*   5*   -6 -5 -5
I've come to talk with you a-gain

-5 -5   -5  7*  7*  8    8_-8* -8*   8
Be-cause a  vis-ion soft-ly___ creep-ing

-5   -5  6*    6*    8 8_-8* -8*  8
Left its seeds while I was_ sleep-ing

-5  -5  -8* -8* -8*  9*  -9    -9 9* -8* 8
And the vis-ion that was plant-ed in my brain

-8*   8  7*
Still re-mains

-5   -5 -5  8     5* -5   -4*
With-in the sound of sil-ence

-4* -4* -4*  -5     -5 7*    7* -8
In rest-less dreams I  walked a-lone

5*  5*  5*      5* -6  -6  -5
Nar-row streets of cob-ble-stone

 -5    -5  7* 7* 8  8_-8* -8*    8
'Neath the ha-lo of a____ street lamp

-6 -6     -5 5*  -4* 4  3*  -8*_8 7*  8
 I turned my col-lar to the cold_ and damp

-5   -5 -8*  -8*  -8*
When my eyes were stabbed

-8* 9* -9    -9 -9 -8* -7 7*
by the flash of  a ne--on light

-5   -8*   8   7*
That split the night

-5  -5      -5  8     5* -5  -4*
And touched the sound of sil-ence

4   4  4   -5  -5 7*   -5 -6
And in the nak-ed light I saw

5*  5*    5*  5*  5*   -6  5* -5
Ten thous-and peo-ple, may-be more

-5  -5  7*   7*  8    8_-8* -8*  8
Peo-ple talk-ing with-out__ speak-ing

-5  -5  7*   7*  8    8_-8* -8*    8
Peo-ple hear-ing with-out__ list&rsquo;n-ing

-5  -5  7*   8   -8*   9*
Peo-ple writ-ing songs that

-9   -9 9* -8* 8
Voic-es nev-er share

-5  -8* 8  7*
And no one dared

-5  -5   -5  8     5* -5   -4*
Dis-turb the sound of sil-ence

4        4    -5  -5  7* -5  -6
"Fools", said I, "You do not know

5*  5*   5*  5* -6  5*  -5
Sil-ence like a can-cer grows

-5   -5 7*    7*   8 8_-8* -8*   8
Hear my words that I might teach you

-9   9* -8*  8    7* -5_-8* -8*   8
Take my arms that I  might_ reach you"

-5  -5 -8*    9*   -9  -9  9*   -8*    8
But my words, like sil-ent rain-drops fell

-5  -5  -5  -5 -5  8     5* -5  -4*
And ech-oed in the wells of sil-ence

4   4   -5   -5 7*    -5  -6
And the peo-ple bowed and prayed

7* 7*  7* 7* 7*  -7   -7
To the ne-on god they made

-5  -5  7*   7*      8   8_-8* -8*  8
And the sign flashed out its__ warn-ing

-9 9*  -8*   8    7* -5_-8* -8*  8
In the words that it was___ form-ing

-5  -5  7*   8      8   -8*   -8* -8* -8*   -8*
And the sign said, "The words of  the proph-ets

9*  -9   -9  -9 -9  9*  -8* 8
are writ-ten on the sub-way walls

-5  -8* -8* 8    7*
And ten- e -ment halls"

-5  -5   -5    -5 -5  8_________________ 5* -5   -4*
And whis-pered in the sounds____________ of sil-ence.


Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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