Empty Arms Teresa Brewer Written by Ivory Joe Hunter Charted at # 13 in 1957 and covered writer Hunter's version (MY Empty Arms) which attained only # 43 Country artist Sonny James re-made it to # 93 on the Pop chart in 1971. mm-mm-mm mm-mm-mm Empty arms that long for you And they wait, they wait just for you And these arms will stay this way Till you return to them some day Each lonely night I'll go to bed mm-My heart the pillow where you used to lay your head Empty arms, but not for long 'cause my man, he is comin' home And when he, when he walks through that door These empty arms I'll have no more Yeah, these empty arms I'll have no more