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To Keep My Love Alive
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Ella Fitzgerald
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I've been married, and married, and often I've sighed
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"I'm never a bridesmaid, I'm always a bride"
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I never divorced them, I hadn't the heart
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Yet remember these sweet words, "'till death do us part"
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I married many men, a ton of them
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Because I was untrue to none of them
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Because I bumped off every one of them
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To keep my love alive
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Sir Paul was frail, he looked a wreck to me
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At night he was a horse's neck to me
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So I performed an appendectomy
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To keep my love alive
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Sir Thomas had insomnia, he couldn't sleep at night
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I bought a little arsenic, he's sleeping now all right
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Sir Philip played the harp, I cussed the thing
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I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing
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And now he plays where harps are just the thing
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To keep my love alive
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To keep my love alive
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(bridge)
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I thought Sir George had possibilities
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But his flirtations made me ill at ease
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And when I'm ill at ease, I kill at ease
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To keep my love alive
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Sir Charles came from a sanatorium
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And yelled for drinks in my emporium
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I mixed one drink, he's in memorium
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To keep my love alive
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Sir Francis was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why
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I tossed him off my balcony, to see if he, could fly
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Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide,
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He killed his dad and that was patricide
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One night I stabbed him by my mattress-side
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To keep my love alive
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To keep my love alive
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To keep my love alive
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong - I've ...
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