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Tryin To Throw Your Arms Around The World by U2

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This is a really simple song if you just want to strum it, limited to basically two chords
In the concert they seem to play G# C#, so with a capo on first fret it becomes dead easy

Tryin to throw your arms around the world - U2
Capo 1

Verse 1:
G                   C
Six o'clock in the morning                   
            G                C
You're the last to hear the warning
             G                    C               G    C
You've been trying to throw your arms around the world
               G               C
You've been falling off the sidewalk
      G                  C                    
Your lips move but you can't talk
 G                    C               G    C
Tryin' to throw your arms around the world


Chorus:                             
           G           C            G          C            G     C  G  C
I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you.....woman be still
           G           C            G          C                 G    C G C           
I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you...ya know that  I will

Verse 2:
G               C
Sunrise like a nosebleed
G                        C
Your head hurts and you can't breathe
          G                  C                G    C
You been tryin' to throw you arms around the world
 G            C
How far you gonna go
  G                  C
Before you lose your way back home?
             G                   C               G     C
You've been trying to throw your arms around the world


Chorus:
           G            C            G          C           G   C G C
I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you ...woman be still
          G             C            G          C                  G    C G C
I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you ...you know that  I will


Verse 3:
   G                 C
I dreamed that I saw Dali
         G           C      
With a supermarket trolley
         G                  C             G  C
He was trying to throw his arms around a girl
            G       C  
He took an open top beetle
             G       C
Through the eye of a needle
         G                  C               G    C
He was tryin' to throw his arms around the world


Chorus:
           G            C            G         C            G    C G C   
I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you... woman be still
           G            C            G         C                   G   C G C
I'm gonna run to you...run to you...run to you... you know that I will


Instrumental:
G D C G D C G C G C


Verse 4:
G                C
Nothin' much to say I guess
          G       C
Just the same as all the rest
       G                   C               G    C
Been trying to throw your arms around the world
  G             C
A woman needs a man
        G           C
Like a fish needs a bicycle
             G                   C                G    C
When you're tryin' to throw your arms around the world


Chorus:
           G            C             G         C
I'm gonna run to you...run to you... run to you
           G            C             G         C
I'm gonna run to you...run to you... run to you
           G            C             G        
I'm gonna run to you...run to you... run to you 


Outro:
 C        G    C G    C       G   C G
Woman be still.......woman I will
  C      G
Woman I will

Tryin To Throw Your Arms Around The World Chords Info

Last Updated: January 22, 2026

Capo: 1

Chords: G#, C#, G, C, D, A