To Keep My Love Alive - Blossom Dearie

Written by：Hart Rodgers

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

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 memorium

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