The Sound Of Silence ("Songbook" version)

Notes : This early version is featured on the Paul Simon Songbook.
It was recorded in England in May 1965, after the Wednesday Morning 3AM
version.

It starts slower, and then speeds up in the 2nd verse.

Capo 2 - or tune down half a tone, capo 3.

Amsus2
e-|-----0-----0-----0-----0--|-----0-----0-----0-----0--|
B-|--------0-----------0-----|--------0-----------0-----|
G-|--2-----------2-----------|--2-----------2-----------|
D-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
E-|--------------------------|--------------------------|

Hello Darkness my old

G
e-|-----3-----------3--------|-----3----------3---------|
B-|-----------0-----------0--|-----------0-----------0--|
G-|--------0-----------0-----|--------0-----------0-----|
D-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
E-|--3-----------3-----------|--3-----------3-----------|

friend, I've come to talk with you a-

Am C/E C
e-|-----0-----------0--------|-----0-----------0--------|
B-|-----------1-----------1--|-----------1-----------1--|
G-|--------2-----------2-----|--------0-----------0-----|
D-|--------------------------|--2-----------------------|
A-|--0-----------0-----------|--------------3-----------|
E-|--------------------------|--------------------------|

gain, Because a vision soft-

F C
e-|-----1-----------0--------|-----0-----------0--------|
B-|-----------1-----------1--|-----------1-----------1--|
G-|--------2-----------0-----|--------0-----------0-----|
D-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A-|--------------3-----------|--3-----------3-----------|
E-|--1-----------------------|--------------------------|

ly creeping left its seeds while I

F C
e-|-----1-----------0--------|-----0-----------1--------|
B-|-----------1-----------1--|-----------1-----------1--|
G-|--------2-----------0-----|--------0-----------2-----|
D-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A-|--------------3-----------|--3-----------------------|
E-|--1-----------------------|--------------1-----------|

was sleeping and the vision

F C/E
e-|-----1-----------1--------|-----1-----------0--------|
B-|-----------1-----------1--|-----------1-----------1--|
G-|--------2-----------2-----|--------2-----------0-----|
D-|--------------------------|--------------2-----------|
A-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
E-|--1-----------1-----------|--1-----------------------|

that was planted in my brain,

C F C/E C C/B Am C/B C
e-|-----0-----------0--------|--------------------------|
B-|--------------------------|-----1-----------1--------|
G-|--------2--0--------------|--------2--------------0--|
D-|--------3--2--------------|--------------------2-----|
A-|--3-----------3-----3--2--|--0--------2--3-----------|
E-|--------------------------|--------------------------|

still remains within the

G Am
e-|-----3-----------3--------|-----0-----------0--------|
B-|-----------0-----------0--|-----------1-----------1--|
G-|--------0-----------0-----|--------2-----------2-----|
D-|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A-|--------------------------|--0-----------0-----------|
E-|--3-----------3-----------|--------------------------|

Sounds of Silence