Tryin' To Throw Your Arms Around The World by U2 - guitar chords, guitar tabs and lyrics

tabbed by: Sergio Lucero, slucero@cipres.cec.uchile.cl

	A	D
S	ix o'clock in the m	orning

	A	D
You're the l	ast to hear the w	arning

	A	D	A	D
You've been tryi	ng to throw your a	rms around the world

You've been falling off the sidewalk

Your lips move but you can't talk

Tryin' to throw your arms around the world

	A	D	A	D	A	D-A-D
I'm gonna r	un to you...r	un to you...r	un to you.	..be st	ill

	A	D	A	D	A	D-A-D
I'm gonna r	un to you...r	un to you...r	un to you.	..woman	I w	ill

Sunrise like a nosebleed, your head hurts and you can't breathe

You been tryin' to throw you arms around the world

How far are you gonna go before you lose your way back home?

You've been trying to throw your arms around the world

I'm gonna run to you...

I dreamed that I saw Dali with a supermarket trolley

He was trying to throw his arms around a girl

He took an open top beetle through the eye of a needle

He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world

I'm gonna run to you...

Bridge: A-E-D-A      A-E-D      A-D-A-D-.....

Nothin' much to say I guess, just the same as all the rest

Been trying to throw your arms around the world

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world

I'm gonna run to you...run to you

Woman be still...woman be still

Be still...woman be still, woman I will

Trying to Throw Your Arms Around the World by U2 (live version)

Transcribed by Richard Zangoli.

I saw that there were the chords to this gorgeous song on the archive but as

yet nobody had transcribed the live version from the Zoo TV concerts. I

transcribed it from a bootleg CD that I have but I presume that most

versions would be reasonably similar. Tune down half a step.

This is the main riff-

E-----------------------12--------------------------------------12-----12--
B--------10--9--10----------10--9--10-------10--9--10----9--10-----10----10-9-10
G-----9-----------------------------------9-----------------------------------

Edge varies it often during the verses and here are some examples of his

variations.-

E-----------------------12---------------12----12s/14s/12----
B--------10--9--10------------9--10--------------------------  another

variation

G----9---------------------------------------------------------is-
E-------------------------------------------
B--------10--9--10--12--10--9--10------- and so on. This should be enough for
G---9---------------------------------------  you to work with

Then there is the break where Edge plays some open chords. He plays A E D A

and then A E D. Listen to the song for the timing. Right after he plays

these chords he does something that sounds pretty much like-

E---------------------0-----------
B----2-------2---3-------3-------  a few times.
G--------2---------------------2--

He then goes back to the main riff (and variations thereof) for a bit and

then he plays the following-(hopefully he does something similar on other

versions as well)-

E-------------------12----------------12--12s/14s/12--------------------12---10
-------10--9--10--------------9--10---------------------------------10---------
G------9------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---9--10--9-------s/12---10--9-------10--9-----------------------12--10--9--10-
B-------------------------------------------------12--10------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-12--10--9--10--9------------------12--10--9--10---12--12--12--12--12s/14s/12
B-------------------------12--10------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And then it goes back to the main riff. Even if the version you have is a

bit different, the above might give you some clues.

Richard Zangoli (ahowden@magna.com.au)