Sounds

Of Silence
Transposed From coolcellos Simon & Garfunkle

  42
      
        
 = 100

Tenor Saxophone


  42    


     
Hel lo dark ness my old friend, I've come to

Tenor Saxophone
    


       


           
8

T. Sax.


                   
talk with you a gain. Be cause a vi sion soft ly creep ing

T. Sax.

             
       
15

T. Sax.

                     
left its seeds while I was sleep ing. And the vi sion that was

T. Sax.

         
          
22

T. Sax.


                  
plant ed in my brain still re mains with in the sound

T. Sax.
 

     
            
    
30

T. Sax.


            
 In rest less dreams I walked a

   
of si lence. lone, nar row

    
T. Sax.


                   
38

T. Sax.

                  
streets of cob ble stone. 'Neath the ha lo of a street lamp,

T. Sax.

      
             
45

T. Sax.


                   
I turned my col lar to the cold and damp. When my eyes were stabbed

T. Sax.

                
   
51

T. Sax.


                
by the flash of a ne on light that split the night

T. Sax.
 

 
                     
58

T. Sax.


                    
and touched the sound of si lence. And in the na ked light I

T. Sax. 

                    
65

T. Sax.


   
            
saw ten thou sand peo ple may be more. Peo ple talk ing with out

T. Sax.    

2
            
      
73

T. Sax.

                  
speak ing, peo ple hear ing with out list 'ning, peo ple

T. Sax.

            
       
 
80

T. Sax.

        
            
writ ing songs that voi ces ne ver share. And no one

T. Sax.
 

    
                
87

T. Sax.

 
                    
dared dis turb the sound of si lence. "Fools," said

T. Sax.

        
          
95

T. Sax.

     
        
I, "you do not know si lence, like a can cer, grows. Hear my

T. Sax.    

         
     
103

T. Sax.

                
words, that I might teach you. Take my arms, that I might

T. Sax.

3
              
       
108

T. Sax.

      
           
reach you." But my words, like si lent rain drops, fell.

T. Sax.

      
                  
117

T. Sax.

   
                     
And ech oed in the wells of si lence. And the

T. Sax.

        
    
      
126

T. Sax.

                 
peo ple bowed and prayed to the ne on god they made. And the

T. Sax.  

                  

134

T. Sax.

                   
sign flashed out its warn ing in the words that it was form ing.

T. Sax.

            
    
140

T. Sax.

                 
And the sign said, "the words of the pro phets are writ ten on the

T. Sax.

4
         

              
 
146

T. Sax.

      
                  
sub way walls and ten e ment halls  and whis pered in the


T. Sax.


    
      
153

T. Sax.

   
 
 of

     
sounds si lence."

T. Sax. 
