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Hurt | Johnny Cash Harmonica Lesson & Free Harp Tabs

Updated: Mar 26

Hello! In today's free harmonica lesson you'll learn to play Hurt by Johnny Cash. It's on a key of G diatonic harmonica. (You can follow the free harp tabs with a harmonica in the key of C or any other key.) There are no bends so this lesson is suitable for beginner harmonica players.




Here are the free tabs:


Verse

-6 7 -6 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 -4 -5 6 -6

I hurt myself today to see if I still feel

-6 7 -6 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 -4 6 -4 -4

I focus on the pain, the only thing that's real

-6 7 -6 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -6

The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting

-6 -6 7 -6 6 -5 -6 -4 -5 -4 -5 -4 -5 4 4

try to kill it all away, but I remember everything


Chorus

7 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 6 -5 6

What have I become, my sweetest friend

7 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -4 -5 6 4 4

Everyone I know goes away in the end

-5 6 -5 -6 -5 -5 6 6 6 -5 6

And you could have it all, my empire of dirt

6 -5 -6 -5 -5 6 -5 -6 4 -4

I will let you down, I will make you hurt


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