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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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