I Am A Rock

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*****I Am A Rock*****

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**Simon & Garfunkel**

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Standard Tuning

Capo 5th

G 320003

C x32010

Am x02210

D xx0232

Am7 x02010

Bm7 x24232

Em 022000

The picking during the G in the intro and beginning of the verse is:

E-3—-3-3------------3—-3-3-----------|

[Intro]

[Verse]

A winter's day, in a deep and dark December;

I am alone,

Gazing from my window to the streets below

On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.

[Chorus]

I am a rock, I am an i___sland.

[Verse]

I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty,

That none may penetrate.

I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.

It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.

[Repeat Chorus]

[Verse]

Don't talk of love, but I've heard the words before;

It's sleeping in my memory.

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.

If I never loved I never would have cried.

[Repeat Chorus]

[Verse]

I have my books and my poetry to protect me;

I am shielded in my armor,

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb.

I touch no one and no one touches me.

[Repeat Chorus]

[Outro]

And a rock feels no pain;

And an island never cries.