More (Than the Greatest Love)
Theme from Mondo Cane
Music by Riz Ortolani and N. Oliviera
English words by Norman Newell
Midi 1 (A110)   Midi 2(F120)
Midi 3(C100)    Midi 4(G150)
Midi 5(F100)   Midi 6(C120)
Tabbed from "G" sheet music in 4/4 time.
Tabbed by Mark Purintun
For Diatonic harmonica

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This song has been recorded more than 150 times by artists such as Nat King Cole, Andy Williams, Frank Sinatra, Sergio Franchi, Johnny Mathis, Steve Lawrence, Brenda Lee, Ray Charles, Buddy Greco, Mantovani and Connie Francis.  Winner of Grammy Award.  This is our wedding song.  12/9/72
Play in Ab (per Gene) (Play happily) 
 
Verse 1:
  6   -6  -7      7  -7    7   8      -5   8      -8
More than the | greatest love the | world has | known.
  5  -5  6     -6   6#   -6   7    -4  7 -7
This is the | love I'll give to | you alone.
  6   -6  -7     7 -7    7   8  -5  8    -8
More than the | simple words I try to | say.
5 -5 6    -6  6#  -6   7     -4    7     -7
I only | live to love you | more each | day.
Chorus:
  7    -7    7      -8 7   7   -7     7   -7   7    -8   7   7
More than you'll | ever know, my | arms long to | hold you so.
-7     7   -7   7   -10 -8   -8  7     -8  7    7  -7      -7  -6    -6  6b
My | life will be | in your keeping | waking, sleeping, | laughing, weeping.
 Verse 2:
 6 -6   -7     7 -7   7 8    -5     8     -8
Longer than | always is a | long, long | time.
 5   -5  6    -6  6# -6 7     -4    7    -7
But far be | yond forever | you'll be | mine.
7  -7  7   -8 7    7   -7     7   -7  7    -8    7 7 -7     7
I know I | never lived be | fore and my | heart is very | sure
-7  7     -8    7     7   -7     7
no one | else could love you | more.      repeat from top... to end

(I said) "here we are in a place that transcends our surroundings for the petty extrinsic minutia of our circumstances.   I feel it.. and I know you feel it.  So what's say?  Let's go today, this evening, or some other fine evening.  I'll take you to a terrific little Italian restaurant I know uptown.  Hmmmm?"  (She said "yes"...)

 

"More" is one of the sappiest exotica melodies, right up there with "Feelings," yet the Italian film from which it came, "Mondo Cane," was an unlikely source of easy listening. "Mondo Cane" (translation, "A Dog's World") was a documentary about the endless struggle for survival among species. To call it a documentary, though, is misleading--imagine "Koyaanisqatsi" directed by Russ Meyer. It switched from scenes of tribal rituals to a Hollywood pet cemetery to graphic scenes of animal combat and carnage, and the shock value of these scenes probably accounted more than anything for its success.

"More" was original strictly an instrumental number, but something in the overwrought emotions of the melody must have had an irresistable pull on lyricist Norman Newell, who turned this theme song for a documentary on animal slaughter into an assertion of a love that's "more" than anyone else's love (or anyone else's anything, for that matter).

The result gave "More" a guaranteed place among the exotica standards: a song that could be performed as an overwrought instrumental or sung with exaggerated drama by a series of good and bad singers. In fact, BMI lists "More" among the less than 10 songs its database shows as having been played over 5 million times on radio and television.

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