Tab notations
none = blow – = draw * = button in
. – on lower register; first 4 holes of a 16 hole chromatic
8_-8 = slur; slide smoothly from note to note
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Hel – lo dark-ness, my old friend
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I’ve come to talk with you a-gain
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Be-cause a vis-ion soft-ly___ creep-ing
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Left its seeds while I was_ sleep-ing
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And the vis-ion that was plant-ed in my brain
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Still re-mains
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With-in the sound of sil-ence
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In rest-less dreams I walked a-lone
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Nar-row streets of cob-ble-stone
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‘Neath the ha-lo of a____ street lamp
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I turned my col-lar to the cold_ and damp
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When my eyes were stabbed
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by the flash of a ne–on light
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That split the night
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And touched the sound of sil-ence
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And in the nak-ed light I saw
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Ten thous-and peo-ple, may-be more
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Peo-ple talk-ing with-out__ speak-ing
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Peo-ple hear-ing with-out__ list’n-ing
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Peo-ple writ-ing songs that
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Voic-es nev-er share
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And no one dared
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Dis-turb the sound of sil-ence
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“Fools”, said I, “You do not know
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Sil-ence like a can-cer grows
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Hear my words that I might teach you
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Take my arms that I might_ reach you”
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But my words, like sil-ent rain-drops fell
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And ech-oed in the wells of sil-ence
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And the peo-ple bowed and prayed
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To the ne-on god they made
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And the sign flashed out its__ warn-ing
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In the words that it was___ form-ing
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And the sign said, “The words of the proph-ets
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are writ-ten on the sub-way walls
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And ten- e -ment halls”
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And whis-pered in the sounds____________ of sil-ence.
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