To Keep My Love Alive

To Keep My Love Alive - Ella Fitzgerald

I've been married and married

And often I've sighed

"I'm never a bridesmaid

I'm always the bride"

I never divorced them

I hadn't the heart

Yet remember these sweet words

"Till death do us part"

I married many men a ton of them

Because I was untrue to none of them

Because I bumped off every one of them

To keep my love alive

Sir Paul was frail he looked a wreck to me

At night he was a horse's neck to me

So I performed an appendectomy

To keep my love alive

Sir Thomas had insomnia

He couldn't sleep at night

I bought a little arsenic

He's sleeping now all right

Sir Philip played the harp

I cussed the thing

I crowned him with his harp

To bust the thing

And now he plays

Where harps are just the thing

To keep my love alive

To keep my love alive

I thought Sir George had possibilities

But his flirtations made me ill at ease

And when I'm ill at ease I kill at ease

To keep my love alive

Sir Charles came from a sanatorium

And yelled for drinks in my emporium

I mixed one drink he's in memoriam

To keep my love alive

Sir Francis was a singing bird

A nightingale that's why

I tossed him off my balcony

To see if he could fly

Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide

He killed his dad and

That was patricide

One night I stabbed him

By my mattress side

To keep my love alive

To keep my love alive

To keep my love alive