The More I See You

Words & Music by Mack Gordon & Harry Warren
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole, 1958


A7  Em7  A7 D  A7   D       B7    Em7 A7sus4 A7
The more I see you,    the more I want you; 

    Em7  A7   D   A7  D        B7        Em7   A7sus4    A7
Somehow this feel-ing    just grows and grows.

      Em7   Dm        F        F7   Bb           Gm7
With every sigh, I become more mad about you,

      A7     Dm           E7/9    Em7   A7sus4   A7
More lost without you, and so it goes.



    Em7 A7   D    A7   D      B7     Em7 A7sus4   A7
Can you im - a - gine     how much I love you, 

    Em7  A7 D  A7  D     A7      Am7   D7
The more I see you   as years go by?

  D7/F#     G           Gm          D  DM7  B7
I know the only one for me can only be you;

    E7         D   Bm7  Em7    Gdim   A7   D   Gdim   Em7   A7
My arms won´t free you,     my heart won´t try.



(Instrumental Interlude – first half of verse) 


  D7/F#    G            Gm          D  DM7   B7
I know the only one for me can only be you;

   E7          D   Bm7  Em7   Gdim   A7    D   Bm7  G/B  A7   D6
My arms won´t free you,    my heart won´t try.


Introduced in the 1945 film "Diamond Horseshoe." Previously recorded by Dick Haymes (#7) and Harry James (#12), both 1945. Also recorded by Chris Montez, 1966 (#16).


 
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