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Johnny Cash - Hurt (2) (Chord)
Submitter: Shantel (113) on 4/20/03 27 comments
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Hurt - Johnny Cash
Album: The Man Comes Around
Written by: Trent Reznor

Larry and me are hearing this a little different so I thought
I'd post my version.

Intro: Am  C  D (x2) 


Am     C      D     Am      C     D       Am
    I hurt myself today to see if I still feel
  C     D      Am        C    D            Am
I focus on the pain the only thing that's real
     C      D       Am       C     D      Am 
The needle tears a hole the old familiar sting
        C       D   Am           C      D    G
Try to kill it all away but I remember everything


Chorus:
Am             F    C             G
What have I become, my sweetest friend
Am          F          C          G
Everyone I know goes away in the end
    Am                 F  G
And you could have it all my empire of dirt
Am              F   G               Am  C  D (x2)
I will let you down I will make you hurt


Am     C          D       Am      C      D      Am
    I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar's chair
  C      D      Am      C     D     Am
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair
    C         D        Am       C        D    Am 
Beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear
 C        D     Am   C      D          G
You are someone else I am still right here


Chorus:
Am             F    C             G
What have I become, my sweetest friend
Am          F          C          G
Everyone I know goes away in the end
    Am                 F  G
And you could have it all my empire of dirt
Am              F   G               
I will let you down I will make you hurt

   Am              F      G
If I could start again a million miles away
Am              F   G           (no chord)
I would keep myself I would find a way


Chords:
Am  =   x02210
C   =   x32010
F   =   133211(bar chord) or xx3211
G   =   320003  
 
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this is the truest vrs ive found yet

kuddos
-hollisboy | 4/25/2003
This is excellently accurate!!!!!!!!!!!!
-ALp | 4/28/2003
this one is correct thanks
-krummit | 5/24/2003
Everything's great excpt for this:
instead of
Am F G
And you could have it all my empire of dirt

I thought it was

Am F C G
And you could have it all my empire of dirt
-sweet-afton23 | 6/1/2003
It slounds like the G should be played 320033
-HARDT0303 | 6/17/2003
Shantel, I've never seen one of your tabs that I didn't absolutely
fall in love with. Excellent work. As long as you keep up work like
this, I'll keep coming to this site.
Thanks for the great tabs.
-LynyrdSkynhead | 9/17/2003
The G he has it right. But in the beginning, the I believe the
high E in the D chord is left open.
-cheesmo | 10/8/2003
The D can be played as a ninth chord if you prefer. Fingering would be xx0230
-Shantel | 10/9/2003
is this song strummed or finger picked...I have tried to play it and
can't get the right sound for the verses....if someone could fill me
in it would be appreciated . *Smiles*
-midnite | 10/22/2003
The verse is mostly picked. The chorus is all strumming.
Check out some of the tab submissions for a good representation
of how to play the verse part. They're all similar but I'd
recommend the one by Gladiator or "Hurt 5"
-Shantel | 10/22/2003
the D should be a Cadd2
-mikalhanna | 11/16/2003
The D is
------0---
------3---
------0---
----4-----
--5-------
It is C up two frets. Not sure what it is called but is sounds better.
-cbayne101 | 11/18/2003
ok for a fact the D chord is Dsus2
and how you play the verse is this

the Am is played the root note A on the 5th sring

then the next note is E on the 4th string then u finish the chord by struming the remainder


-acana007 | 12/31/2003
oh ya by the way look at the music video for
the third chord
-acana007 | 12/31/2003
Hey all,

I consulted the "Hurt" video and it looks like he's playing Dminor instead of just D. Can anyone confirm this?
-Phoenix02 | 1/12/2004
I just wabted to say to who ever submited this : You did a Very Good
Job, i have been playing for 4 years and just noe figured out how to
pic this song. Johnny Cash a very taltnted man in his time we all
loved him
-txkidcrisp | 3/4/2004
This song sounds great if you get the picking correct. For the
verse, the first 2 notes are picked separately, then the remaining
notes in the cord are strummed together. For the chorus, it is all
strummed.

I believe the correct chords are;

Verse
C, X32010
Dsus2, XX0120
Am, X02210

Chorus
G5, 320033
A7sus4, 002233
Fadd9, X03213
C, X32013

Also, make sure you use the proper dynamics for this song. It needs
to start soft and build up. This is what Johnny Cash was so good at
doing.
-enjoy
-cboland | 5/3/2004
I'm new to guitars but it's of my opinion that instead of Am, C, D...

You should go for Am, C, and then bring that C down to the third
fret, with the last string pressed at the fifth. Just slide that
sumb***h.

Great song, and great tabs. I'm glad I know the choral chords now.
Thanks.


I'm a junior in high school and I just wanted to say that, in a
generation of hip hop and pop, Johnny Cash has always been my
favorite artist to defend.

"johnny cash was just some old white guy who can't sing good and was
soft... "

response: "Cash once sang of killing a man in Reno just to watch him
die.. and this is before people sagged around the asscrack and wore
gold caps. That man was the first real original artist I can think
of."
-Joe



-smada | 9/17/2004
For the verses, he picks the 2 top strings
of the chord and strums the last as shown
here:

e------0|------0--|----2--|
B------1|------1--|----3--|
G------2|------0--|--2---2|
D----2--|----2----|0------|
A--0----|--3-----3|-------|
E-------|---------|-------|

Note: as the chord changes, a note is picked
just before the chord transition.

In the chorus: G:320033 Am:x02213 F:xx3213
C:X32013
Once he hits the F chord, you can hear a
bass note played, and is heard throughout the
rest of the chorus: like this:
Am F C
E--3-3-3-3|--3-3---3-3--|3
B--1-1-1-1|--1-1---1-1--|1
G--2-2-2-2|--2-2---2-2--|0
D--2-2-2-2|--3-3-3-3-3-3|2
A--0-0-0-0|------*-----*|3
E---------|-------------|
Whathave I become My....
** These are bass notes, which he picks between strums, and are heard sometimes
throughout the chorus, and the further in,
the more are played.
In the outro, they can be picked after each strum.
The D chord, figure it to be whatever, the
high e string is played, ithink its d,
because i havent tried dsus2 for this song.
I have been playing this song for ages, and
I always use d, but I know its know a barre chord. In the video as someone mentioned,
they think its Dm. that tells you it might be D rather than Dsus2, because he has a
finger on that string, and it doesnt sound
Dm, so it ust be D. But in anyway, if
Dsus2 is unfamiliar to anyone, Dsus2 looks
a little something like this:

E--0
B--3
G--2
D--0
A--X
E--X
-macg1 | 10/7/2004
Great tab...just wanna say i think this was the best cover of a song
ever. Trent Reznor is my favorite artist of all time, i'm a huge NIN
fan (without the piercings and bullcrap lol)....when music worlds
collide, great things happen....plz everybody remember that
-joans00ex | 10/22/2004
Hey
I was awefully happy you put this tab in, I luv this song and if I were you I wouldn't stress about all the different chords everyone is bringing up I think you did great and everyone is going to have different opinions.
-caris | 12/28/2004
Thank you for your transcr i ption. I appreciate your hard work.
-dorothycooley | 1/12/2005
its great to have the chords, it cracks me up how everyone is going on about this exact note etc, Cash did an incredible 'version' of this song.. because of the feeling he puts into his songs..he makes the songs his own..i think some perfectionists need to have a go at doing their own version of songs..make them their own..'share' them around..its what Johnny Cash was doing!.
-Thornicroft | 1/19/2005
hey smada i think ure right i got in to it with a wigger of johnny cash im a freshman in high school
-redneckpunk15 | 2/20/2005
jc is awsome 1 of the best ever great tab

-D minor | 4/24/2005
Thanks for the tab, really good, maybe keep playing C in some of the spots that you play F in the chorus. Other than that great stuff! Thanks
-TravisKraft | 7/12/2008
The best version found yet, that actually conveys the pognancy of this song, sung so feelingly by Johnny Cash. Thank you :)
-Astrololee | 5/26/2016
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