Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters & Collectors

Written by John Archer, Geoffrey Crosby, Doug Falconer, John 'Jack' Howard,
Robert Miles, Mark Seymour (lyrics, guitar), Michael Waters

Original single released in Australia Nov 1984
Re-recorded for "Human Frailty" album released in Australia 7 Apr 1986,
released in USA July 1987, single released in Australia 28 Apr 1986
Re-recorded using slightly slower acoustic arrangement for
"Collected Works" album released in Australia 19 Nov 1990

This version transcribed from official video of 1986 album
track at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zON9sg6ADjQ
Standard tuning, no capo, 113 BPM
High parts of arpeggios are reachable on electric or cut-away acoustic guitar

[Basic chords]
  022100
  X02220
  X24442

[Chords as played in video]
    779900
  577600
 799800

[Effects]
h  Hammer on
+  Natural harmonic


[Intro] 0:00
             
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 I will ...

[Verse 1] 0:09
(this verse is bass guitar only, try playing single strum per chord)
             
I will come fo

              
r you at night

        
 time,
             
I will raise y

              
ou from your s

       
leep,
             
I will kiss yo

              
u in four plac

     
es,
             
As I go runnin

              
g along your s

        
treet,
             
I will squeeze

              
 the life out 

         
of you,
             
You will make 

              
me laugh and m

             
ake me cry,
             
And we will ne

                
ver forget it,
             
You will make 

              
me call your n

              
ame, and I'll 

             
shout it to th

              
e blue summer,

       
   sky.


[Chorus] 0:46
             
And we may nev

                
er meet again,
             
So shed your s

              
kin and lets g

     
et started,
             
And you will t

              
hrow-ow-ow-ow-

             
ow-ow, your ar

              
ms around me,
              
Yeah, you will

             
 throw-ow-ow-o

             
w-ow-ow, your 

             
arms around me

   
.


[Interlude] 1:
             
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        I ...

[Verse 2] 1:20
             
I dreamed of y

              
ou at night ti

     
me,
             
And I watched 

              
you in your sl

      
eep,
             
I met you in h

             
igh places,
              
I touched your

             
 head and touc

                
hed your feet,
             
So if you disa

              
ppear out of v

      
iew,
             
You know, I wi

              
ll never say g

          
ood-bye,
             
And though I t

              
ry to forget i

    
t,
             
You will make 

              
me call your n

              
ame, and I'll 

             
shout it to th

              
e blue summer,

       
   sky.


[Chorus] 1:58
             
And we may nev

                
er meet again,
             
So shed your s

              
kin and lets g

   
et started,
             
And you will t

              
hrow-ow-ow-ow-

             
ow-ow, your ar

              
ms around me,
              
Yeah, you will

             
 throw-ow-ow-o

             
w-ow-ow, your 

             
arms around me

    
.

               


[Repeating Chorus] 2:33
            
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

             
hhhhhhh, Yeeee

   
eeeeeeeeah,

            
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

             
hhhhhhh, Yeeee

   
eeeeeeeeah.

             
And you will t

              
hrow-ow-ow-ow-

             
ow-ow, your ar

              
ms around me,
                     (Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah)

              
Yeah, You will

             
 throw-ow-ow-o

             
w-ow-ow, your 

             
arms around me

   
,
                    (Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah)

             
And we may nev

              
er meet again,

            
    (your arms

             
 around me)
                (Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah)

             
Yeah, we may n

              
ever meet agai

            
n,     (your a

                
rms around me)
                 (Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah)

             
Yeah, we may n

              
ever meet agai

            
n,    (your ar

               
ms around me)
                 (Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah)

             
Yeah, we may n

              
ever meet agai

            
n.    (your ar

               
ms around me)
                 (Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah)


[Outtro] 3:41
          
           (si

ngle strum)

[End] 3:53