To Keep My Love Alive Lyrics - Blossom Dearie

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 ev'ry one of them 

To keep my love alive 

Sir Paul was a 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 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 I'll at ease, 

And when I'm I'll 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 Athelstane indulged in fratricide; 

He killed his dad and that was patricide 

One night I stabbed him at my mattress side 

To keep my love alive, 

To keep my love alive.