To Keep My Love Alive Chords by Ella Fitzgerald

[B] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ [Bb] _ [D] _ _
_ _ I've been [G] [C] married and married and often I've [D] sighed.
I'm [G]
never a [Cm] _ [F] [Eb] bridesmaid, [Bb] I'm always [Am] the bride.
[Bm] _ _ [G] I never divorced them, [F] I [Am] hadn't the [D] heart.
Yet [G] remember _ [C] these sweet words, [Em] till death do [D] us part. _
[F] _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [D] _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [D] _
[G] I [Bm] married many [Em] men, a [G] ton of them.
Because [Gb] I [Bm] was [Em] untrue to none of [D] them.
[Em] [Am] Because I [D] bumped off [Em] every one of them.
To [Gb] keep my love [Dm] alive.
_ [G] Sir Paul was [Bm] frail, he looked [E] a wreck to [G] me.
At night he [Bm] was a [Em] horse's neck to [D] me.
[C] So I [D] performed an [Em] _
appendectomy.
[C] To keep [D] my [G] love alive.
[Eb] Sir [F] Thomas [Dm] had [G] insomnia, [Eb] he [Cm] couldn't sleep.
[Gm] [Cm] At [Dm] night [D] I bought a [G] little _ arsenic.
[Em] He's [A] sleeping now, [Am] alright.
_ _ [G] Sir [Gb] Philip played [Bm] the harp, [Em] I cussed a thing.
I [Gb] crowned him with his [Em] harp to [D] bust a [C] thing.
And now he [Gb] plays where [Em] harps are just a thing.
[Am] To [D] keep my love alive.
[Eb] _ [C] To keep my love [G]
alive.
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ [Eb] _ _
[D] _ [G] I thought [Bm] Sir George had [Em] _
possibilities.
But his flirtations made me ill at ease.
[C] And when [Gb] I'm ill at [Em] ease, I kill at ease.
[Am] To keep my [G] love alive.
[D] _ [G] Sir Charles [Bm] came from a [E] _
sanatorium.
[G] And yelled for [Bm] drinks in [E] my [Bm] emporium.
[C] I mixed [Gb] one drink, he's in [Em] _
memoriam.
[Am] To keep [D] my love [G]
alive.
[Eb] Sir [Dm] Francis was [Bb] a singing bird.
[Eb] A [F] nightingale, [Gm] that's why.
[D] I tossed him off [G] my balcony.
_ To see if [Db] he [D] could fly.
[G] Sir [Gb] Athelstan [Bm] [E] indulged in [Bm] fratricide.
[Gm] He killed his [Bm] dad and [Em] that was [G]
patricide.
[C] One night I [Gbm] stabbed him by [Em] my _ matricide.
[Am] To keep [D] my love [G] alive.
[Eb] _ [C] To keep [Am] my [D] love [Bb] [G] alive.
_ To keep [A] _ my [Ab] _
[Dm] love [G] alive.
_ [Gb] _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _