[ti:To Keep My Love Alive] [ar:Ea Fitzgeraldll] [al:Ella Fitzgerald] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]To Keep My Love Alive - Ella Fitzgerald [00:06.44]I've been married and married [00:09.61]And often I've sighed [00:12.81]I'm never a bridesmaid I'm always a bride [00:19.63]I never divorced them I hadn't the heart [00:26.22]Yet remember these sweet words [00:31.24]'Till death do us part [00:45.46]I married many men a ton of them [00:50.02]Because I was untrue to none of them [00:54.54]Because I bumped off every one of them [00:58.91]To keep my love alive [01:03.44]Sir Paul was frail he looked a wreck to me [01:08.08]At night he was a horse's neck to me [01:12.41]So I performed an appendectomy [01:16.67]To keep my love alive [01:21.34]Sir Thomas had insomnia [01:25.69]He couldn't sleep at night [01:30.17]I bought a little arsenic [01:34.63]He's sleeping now all right [01:39.23]Sir Philip played the harp [01:41.57]I cussed the thing [01:43.73]I crowned him with his harp [01:46.05]To bust the thing [01:48.11]And now he plays [01:49.47]Where harps are just the thing [01:52.43]To keep my love alive [01:56.78]To keep my love alive [02:10.17]I thought Sir George had possibilities [02:14.18]But his flirtations made me ill at ease [02:18.93]And when I'm ill at ease I kill at ease [02:23.38]To keep my love alive [02:27.65]Sir Charles came from a sanitorium [02:32.19]And yelled for drinks in my emporium [02:36.45]I mixed one drink he's in memorium [02:40.86]To keep my love alive [02:45.22]Sir Francis was a singing bird [02:49.70]A nightingale that's why [02:54.07]I tossed him off my balcony [02:58.43]To see if he could fly [03:02.89]Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide [03:07.31]He killed his dad and that was patricide [03:11.73]One night I stabbed him by my mattress side [03:16.12]To keep my love alive [03:20.46]To keep my love alive [03:24.97]To keep my love alive