The Sound Of Silence Roger Emerson

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Contralto   4       
         
(1.) Hel lo dark ness my old friend, I'vecome to talk with you a
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 
A.      
              
gain, Be cause a vi sion soft ly creep ing, left its seeds while I was
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
A.      
  42   
44 
    
sleep ing, and the vi sion that was
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  
42     44
A.    
           
plant ed in my brain still re mains with in the sound of
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 
A.         
       
si lence. (2.) In rest less dreams I walked a lone
(3.) And in the nak ed light I saw
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
A.      
             
 nar row streets of cob ble stone, 'neat the ha lo of a
ten thou sand peo ple, may be more. Peo ple talk ing with out
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 
A.       

            42

street lamp, I turned my col lar to the cold and damp
speak ing, poe ple hear ing with out lis ten ing
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A.   4              
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a ne on
Peo ple writ ing songs that voi ces nev er
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 2  4   
A.     4   
       4     
light that split the night and touched the sound of si lence.
share and no one dare dis turb the sound of si lence.
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A.     
             
(4.) "Fools!" said I, "You do not know Si lence like a can cer grows."
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A.     
              
"Hear my words that I might teach you, take my arms that I might
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 
A.        42   
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 

 

 
reach you." But my words like si lent rain drops
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  
A.     
                   
fell,  Echoed in the wells of si lence
50 and echoed

A.         
 
(5.) And the peo ple bowed and prayed
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A.     
            
to the ne on god they made And the sign flashed out it's
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
A.          
    

  

    
warn ing In the words that it was form ing And the Sign said, "The
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   
A.                    
words of the proph ets are writ ten on the sub way walls and ten e ment
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      
A.      
           
halls." And whis per'd in the sounds of si lence.
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