• Girl, I've known you very well
  I've seen you growin' ev'ry day
  I never really looked before
  But now you take my breath away
  Suddenly you're in my life
  Part of everything I do
  You got me working day and night
  Just tryin' to keep a hold on you
  
  Here in your arms I found my paradise
  My only chance for happiness
  And if I lose you now, I think I would die
  Oh, say you'll always be my baby
  We can make it shine
  We can take forever just a minute at a time
  
  More that a woman
  More that a woman to me baby
  More than a woman
  More than a woman to me
  More than a woman
  
  There are stories old and true
  Of people so in love like you and me
  And I can see myself, let history repeat itself
  Reflecting how I feel for you
  Thinkin' 'bout those people then
  I know that in a thousand years
  I'd fall in love with you again
  
  This is the only way that we should fly
  This is the only way to go
  And if I lose your love, I know I would die
  Oh, say you'll always be my baby
  We can make it shine
  We can take forever just a minute at a time
  
  More that a woman (more than a woman)
  More that a woman to me baby
  More than a woman (more than a woman)
  More than a woman to me
  More than a woman
  
  More that a woman (more than a woman)
  More that a woman to me baby
  More than a woman (more than a woman)
  More than a woman to me (every day of my life)
  More than a woman (oh baby)
  More than a woman to me (you are, you are, you are)
  More that a woman
  More than a woman to me (she treats me good like a lover should)
  More than a woman (yeah)
  More than a woman to me (yeah)
  More than a woman Writer/s: Barry Alan Gibb, Maurice Ernest Gibb, Robin Hugh Gibb
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Markantney from BiloxeMay 2021
  
  Jay, ditto.
  He and the Bros Gibb are underrated as writer/producers, very. But Barry especially, since he seems to be the primary.
• Linda from CtThe Tavares version is my favorite. The guys singing sound way cuter and cooler than the Bee Gees (sorry Bee Gees).
• Jim from Roseville, CaI am friends with Chubby Tavares and know this for a FACT...."More Than A Woman" was written for Tavares by Barry Gibb of The Bee Gees. The Brothers Gibb had their own single too, but only released it in minor markets like Italy. They left larger markets like the UK and USA for the Tavares version. Go to about 8:30 in the below Youtube...hear it in Chubby's own words:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q683RWwBnio&t=811s
  
  The song was arranged by the great Freddie Perren for Tavares and led to them being known as a Disco Group.
  
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• Markantney from BiloxeFeb 2018, Love both versions, though very different in delivery. The Bee Gees get a slight nod for I prefer their Arrangements. If you played the Bee Gees Version as an Instrumental, I'd probably play it as much as the vocal version.
• Don from Sevierville, TnFunny, while it was Tavares' version of this song that came out as a single, it's been the Bee Gees' version I hear on the radio more often, even today.
• Jennifer Harris from Grand Blanc, MiI think that Tavares did a great job covering the Bee Gees' More Than a Woman.
• David from Youngstown, OhA nice job by Tavares on this song. But the Bee Gees rendition is one of the greatest songs ever made. It's the only Bee Gees song on the Fever soundtrack that didn't make the Top 40 (they never released it as a single). The Bee Gees version is more lush with violins, and a subtle yet fantastic use of keyboards. The Tavares version is much more of a disco song with the more uptempo beat and vocal layering. As for "bald headed woman," my mother had a friend who also thought that's what is being sung, particularly on the Bee Gees' version.
• Marty from San Francisco, CaSome joker I knew was convinced that the Bee Gees version was singing, "Bald headed woman; bald headed woman to meeee!" Smoked dope, too.
• Jay from Syracuse, NyI'm no longer ashamed of saying that Barry Gibb is a genuinely gifted writer and producer. His uncanny ear for layering a record, esp. finding ways of using strings up-tempo, or "against" the bass line--amazing. I mean, there are limits to where his stuff is going to take you--but I can't deny that beautifully made and electric records like Jive Talkin' and this one will be around for a while--in ways I wouldn't have imagined back when "disco" was a knee-jerk pejorative for rock snobs like me. I dare say, I almost feel the reverse today.

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