Ella Fitzgerald - To Keep My Love Alive 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