Hurt - Johnny Cash

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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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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