Ella Fitzgerald – To Keep My Love Alive (Guitar)
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Chords
[Intro]
C A D7
[Verse 1]
G C F A I've been married, and married, and of-ten I've sighed D7 G Cm F7 A# A7 "I'm never a bridesmaid, I'm always a bride" D7 G C F A7 D I never divorced them, I hadn't the heart G C Em A7 D7 Yet remember these sweet words, "'till death do us part"
[Bridge]
G F D# D G F D# D
[Verse 2]
D G D G I married many men, a ton of them D C D Because I was untrue to none of them G Am7 D7 G Em Be-cause I bumped off every one of them Am7 D7 G To keep my love a-live
[Verse 3]
D G D G Sir Paul was frail, he looked a wreck to me D C D At night he was a horse's neck to me Am7 D7 G So I performed an appen-dectomy Em Am7 D7 G To keep my love a-live
[Verse 4]
Cm7 F7 A# Cm7 F7 A# Sir Thomas had in-somnia, he couldn't sleep at night D7 G A7 D7 I bought a little arsenic, he's sleeping now all right G D G Sir Philip played the harp, I cussed the thing D G D I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing Am7 D7 G And now he plays where harps are just the thing Em A7 D7 G To keep my love a-live C D7 G To keep my love a-live
[Break]
F D# D G F D# D
[Verse 5]
D G D G I thought Sir George had possi-bilities D G D But his flirtations made me ill at ease Am7 D7 G And when I'm ill at ease, I kill at ease Em Am7 D7 G To keep my love a-live
[Verse 6]
D G D G Sir Charles came from a sani-torium D G D G D And yelled for drinks in my em-porium Am7 D7 G I mixed one drink, he's in me-morium D Am D G To keep my love a-live
[Verse 7]
G Cm7 F7 A# Cm7 F7 A# Sir Francis was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why D D7 G Em7 A7 D I tossed him off my balcony, to see if he, could fly G D G Sir Atherton in-dulged in fratricide, D G He killed his dad and that was patricide D Am7 D G Em One night I stabbed him by my mattress-side D G To keep my love a-live C D7 G To keep my love a - live A D G To keep my love a-live