Empty arms (1957)    (video)    (midi)

 

      - - - - - - - - -   G                          C

    These empty arms I'll have no more !

 

                 C                           G

1. Empty arms that long for you,

                           - G7                        C

    and they wait,        dear, just for you.

      - - - - - -     F              G           C

    And these arms will stay this way,

                    G                            C

    till you return to them some day.

 

      - - - - - - - -   F                 G       C     - A7

    Each lonely night when I go to bed,

                     Dm                      A                         D7     -  G

    I hold the pillow where you used to lay your head.

 

      - - - -   C                       G

2. Empty arms but not for long,

                               - G7                   C

    ‘cause my babe         is coming home.

      C7           F                  G               C

    And when he walks through that door,

                          G                          C

    these empty arms I'll have no more.

      - - - - - - - - -   G                          C            F            C

    These empty arms I'll have no more. (I’ll have no more)

 

 

(orig. = capo 1st; midi = no capo)    (Teresa Brewer)