Intro
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Verse 1
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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
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Verse 2
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
