1 | ->''♩Yet remember those sweet words, "Till Death Do Us Part"♩'' |
2 | -->-- Intro to the song |
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4 | ''To Keep My Love Alive'' is a [[MusicOfThe1940s 1943]] MurderBallad with music by Richard Rodgers of Rogers and Hammerstein fame and lyrics by [[ThePeteBest his former partner Lorenz Hart]] about a woman who's had at least 15 husbands, but was never untrue to any of them--because [[BlackWidow she's killed every single one.]] |
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7 | !!This song was true to the following tropes: |
8 | * AssholeVictim: A few of the deceased, especially the murderous Sir Atherton. |
9 | * BlackHumour: It's a happy little ditty about murdering husbands. |
10 | * BlackWidow: The narrator. |
11 | * CainAndAbel: Sir Atherton murdered his brothers [[{{Patricide}} as well as his father]]. And then his wife did ''him'' in. |
12 | * TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: Really, Sir James died of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angina_pectoris angina pectoris]]! Honest! |
13 | * DeadlyDoctor: What the narrator was to Sir Charles. |
14 | * DeadlyEuphemism: ''Many'', which is the source of much the song's humour. |
15 | * HuntingAccident: Sir Alfred (who enjoyed hunting) was sent on a hunting trip. His fate's mentioned below. |
16 | * ImprovisedWeapon: Sir Philip's harp and Sir Philip's skull--she used the latter to bust the former; the former to bash in the latter. |
17 | * KilledOffscreen: Exactly what she did to Sirs George, James, Frank, Alfred, Peter, Ethelburg, and Marc is never actually stated. |
18 | * LyricalDissonance: Has husband-murdering ever been set to such a light, bouncey tune? |
19 | * MurderBallad: Specifically, a BlackWidow Ballad. |
20 | * NeverFoundTheBody: The song says of Sir Alfred "They're hunting for him still". |
21 | * OffWithHisHead: The fate of Sir Marmaduke. |
22 | * OneHeadTaller: Sir Marmaduke was actually too tall for the bed--until his wife fixed that (see above). |
23 | * {{Patricide}}: Sir Atherton (as mentioned under CainAndAbel) |
24 | * ReallyGetsAround: Sir Peter and the girls he collected. Also, Sir George. And, arguably, the narrator. |
25 | * RhymingWithItself: A few stanzas have the third last word changing, with the last two the same. Examples: "ton/none/one of them", "cussed/bust/just the thing", "dish/wish/fish he ate". [[labelnote:Why this works]]Most of the lines in the song rhyme the last ''three'' syllables, so this instance makes sense.[[/labelnote]] |
26 | * SirSwearsAlot: Sir Ethelburg, much to his wife's displeasure. |
27 | * SlippingAMickey: What she did with Sir Frank and his girlfriends. |
28 | * TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Several times: gave Sir Charles a deadly dose, [[SlippingAMickey slipped a mickey]] to Sir Frank and his ladies, and did... something... to Sir Curtis's fish. |
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