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Hurt
Johnny Cash
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00:00 Song Demo
00:30 Lesson Intro
00:49 Intro/Verse Chords
02:23 Intro/Verse Strum
03:57 Verse Demo
04:35 Chorus Chords
07:18 Chorus Strum
10:58 Lesson Outro

It's not WHAT you strum...

...But HOW you strum it!

Not sure what to strum for these songs?

How do you come up with strumming patterns?

Fed up strumming D DU UDU all the time?

You need to LEVEL UP YOUR STRUMMING!

[Intro (Riff)]

         Am                    C          D

|--------0------------|--------0----------0----|

|--------1------------|--------1----------3----|

|--------2------------|--------0-------2--2----|

|-----2--2------------|-----2--2----0-----0----|

|--0-----0------------|--3-----3---------------|

|---------------------|------------------------|

 

[Intro (Chords)]

|Am     |C  D  |Am     |C  D  |

 

[Verse 1]

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  C             G

And you could have it all my empire of dirt

Am               F  G

I will let you down I will make you hurt

 

[Interlude]

|Am     |C  D  |Am     |C  D  |

 

[Verse 2]

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  C             G

And you could have it all my empire of dirt

Am               F  C                  G

I will let you down I will make you hurt

Am                 F      C              G

If I could start again a million miles away

Am                F  G

I would keep myself  I would find a way