Courting in the Kitchen-The Clancy Brothers

[ti:Courting in the Kitchen] [ar:The Clancy Brothers] [al:Come Fill Your Glass with Us] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Courting in the Kitchen - The Clancy Brothers [00:03.54]Come single belle and beau unto me pay attention [00:07.34]Don't ever fall in love it's the Devil's own invention [00:11.11]For once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin' [00:15.02]Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly's kitchen [00:18.59]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:22.56]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:26.41]At the age of seventeen I was prenticed to a grocer [00:30.24]Not far from Steven's Green where Miss Henry used to go sir [00:34.03]Her manners were sublime she set me heart a twitchin' [00:37.75]And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen [00:41.63]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:45.41]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:49.18]Next Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up [00:52.99]I dressed myself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up [00:56.43] [00:56.93]The Captain had no wife and he had gone a fishin' [01:00.02] [01:00.73]And we kicked up high down below stairs in the kitchen [01:04.09]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:08.09]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:11.63]Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table [01:15.46]She handed tay and cake and I ate while I was able [01:19.40]I drank hot punch and tay till me side had got to stitchin' [01:22.87]And the hours passed quick away when you're courting in the kitchen [01:26.35]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:30.36]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:33.87]With me arms around her waist she slyly hinted marriage [01:37.72]To the door in dreadful haste came Captain Kelly's carriage [01:41.47]Her eyes down filled with hate and poison she was spittin' [01:45.31]When the Captain at the door walked right into the kitchen [01:48.88]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:52.85]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:56.54]She flew up off me knees full five feet up or higher [02:00.22]And over head and heels through me slap into the fire [02:04.06]Me new repealer's coat that I bought from Mr Mitchell [02:07.84]With a twenty shilling note went to blazes in the kitchen [02:11.30]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:15.33]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:19.02]I grieved to see me duds all smeared with soot and ashes [02:22.95]When a tub of dirty suds right in me face she dashes [02:26.64]As I lay on the floor the water she kept pitchin' [02:30.30]The footman broke the door and walked straight into the kitchen [02:34.00]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:37.86]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:41.45]When the Captain came downstairs though he saw me situation [02:45.34]In spite all of me prayers I was marched off to the station [02:49.11]For me they'd take no bail but to get home I was itchin' [02:52.91]But I had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen [02:56.40]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:00.41]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [03:04.22]I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial [03:07.74]For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial [03:11.54]She swore I robbed the house in spite of all her screechin' [03:15.31]And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen [03:19.03]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:22.93]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie