Simon and Garfunkel - I Am a Rock  

Originally in C, I play in G capo 4

Intro

G	C/G	G
	→

Vox on 5 4 3 on “day-ay-ay”

	G	C/G	G	C/G	G
A winter’s	day, in a	deep and dark De	cember

Am	D7	C	G	G
I	am a	lo	one

Am7	Bm7	Am7	Bm7
Gazing from my	window	to the streets be	low

	Am	C	D
On a	freshly fallen	silent shroud of	snow

With Spanish-sound riff-y thing

G	Em9

	G	C/G	G	G
I’ve built	walls, a	fortress steep and	mighty

	Am	D7	C	G	G
That	none	may	penet	rate

	Am7	Bm7	Am7	Bm7
I	have no need of	friendship	friendship causes	pain

	Am	C	D
It’s	laughter and it’s	loving I dis	dain

G	Em9

	G	C/G	G
Don’t talk of	love, well I’ve	heard the word be	fore

	Am	D7	C	G	G
It’s	slee	ping in my	memor	y

	Am7	Bm7	Am7	Bm7
I	won’t disturb the	slumber of	feelings that have	died

	Am	C	D
If I	never loved I	never would have	cried

G	Em9

	G	C/G	G	G
I have my	books and my	poetry to pro	tect me

	Am	D7	C	G	G
I am	shiel	ded in my	ar	mor

Am7	Bm7	Am7	Bm7
Hiding in my	room,	safe within my	womb

	Am	C	D
I	touch no one and	no one touches	me

G

	Am7	D7	G
And a	rock fe	els no	pain

	Am7	D7	G
And an	island	never	cries