To Keep My Love Alive Lyrics

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

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook, Vol. 1

Oct 1990

1. Have You Met Miss Jones?
2. You Took Advantage Of Me
3. A Ship Without A Sail
4. This Can't Be Love
5. The Lady Is A Tramp
6. Manhattan
7. Johnny One Note
8. I Wish I Were In Love Again
9. Spring Is Here
10. It Never Entered My Mind
11. Where Or When
12. Little Girl Blue
13. I've Got Five Dollars
14. Dancing On The Ceiling
15. The Blue Room
16. To Keep My Love Alive
17. With A Song In My Heart