"To Keep My Love Alive" is a 1943 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart for the 1943 revival of the 1927 musical A Connecticut Yankee, where it was introduced by Vivienne Segal.
The song outlines the many ways the singer "bumped off" her fifteen husbands in order to avoid being unfaithful to any of them.
I never divorced them—I hadn't the heart-- Yet remember these sweet words: "'Til death do us part..." I married many men, a ton of them, And yet I was untrue to none of them, Because I bumped off every one of them To keep my love alive.
At night he was a horse's neck to me, So I performed an appendectomy To keep my love alive.
I mixed one drink; he's in memoriam, To keep my love alive Sir Francis [3] was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why I tossed him off my balcony to see if he could fly.
I poured a mickey in their chalices: While paralyzed, they got paralysis, To keep my love alive.