To Keep My Love Alive
(专辑: The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Song Books - 1994)
I've been married, and married, and often I've sighed "I'm never a
bridesmaid, I'm always a
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
sanitorium 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 To keep my love alive