Hurt - Johnny Cash
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
NO CAPO
Am: X02210
C: X32010
Dsus2: XX0230
Notes in parenthesis [e.x (3)] are ghost notes and are to be played softly and in the background.
The intro and verses go like this:
(Am)
e|----0-------
B|----1-------
G|----2-------
D|--2--------(
A|0-----------
E|------------
(C) (Dsu
-----------0--
-----------1--
-----------0--
2)-(0)---2----
-------3----(3
--------------
s2)
-----0---|
-----3---|
---2-----|
-0----(0)|
)--------|
---------|
(Am)
e|----0-------
B|----1-------
G|----2-------
D|--2--------(
A|0-----------
E|------------
(C) (Dsu
-----------0--
-----------1--
-----------0--
2)-(0)---2----
-------3----(3
--------------
s2)
-----0---|
-----3---|
---2-----|
-0----(0)|
)--------|
---------|
These two measures go right next to each other, so as soon as you play the open D, you go right back into
the Am. This pattern repeats throughout the intro and both verses.
INSTEAD OF TABBING OUT THIS PATTERN THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SONG, THIS PATTERN WILL BE NOTATED AS
[INTRO]
[VERSE]
I hurt myself
today
To see if I st
ill feel
I focus on the
pain
The only thing
that's real
The needle tea
rs a hole
The old famili
ar sting
Try to kill it
all away
But I remember
everything
[CHORUS]
(Play chords as 8th notes. Strum the whole chord on the downbeats and just the top two notes of the
chord on the upbeats. PLAY ALL OF THE CHORDS IN THE CHORUS WITH YOUR PINKIE ON THE 3RD FRET OF
THE HIGH E STRING SO THE HIGH G RINGS OUT THROUGH THE WHOLE CHORUS)
What have I be
come?
My sweetest fr
iend
Everyone I kno
w
Goes away in t
he end
And you could
have it all
My empire of d
irt
I will let you
down
I will make yo
u hurt
[INTERLUDE]
[VERSE 2]
I wear this cr
own of thorns
Upon my liar's
chair
Full of broken
thoughts
I cannot rep
air
Beneath the st
ains of time
The feelings d
isappear
You are someon
e else
I am still rig
ht here
[CHORUS]
What have I be
come?
My sweetest fr
iend
Everyone I kno
w
Goes away in t
he end
And you could
have it all
My empire of d
irt
I will let you
down
I will make yo
u hurt
If I could sta
rt again
A million mile
s away
I would keep m
yself
I would find a
way