Courting In The Kitchen-International Singers

[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 - International Singers [00:03.00]Come single belle and beau unto me pay attention [00:06.80]Don't ever fall in love it's the Devil's own invention [00:10.58]For once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin' [00:14.49]Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly's kitchen [00:18.05]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:22.03]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:25.88]At the age of seventeen I was prenticed to a grocer [00:29.70]Not far from Steven's Green where Miss Henry used to go sir [00:33.50]Her manners were sublime she set me heart a twitchin' [00:37.21]And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen [00:41.09]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:44.87]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:48.65]Next Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up [00:52.45]I dressed myself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up [00:55.90] [00:56.40]The Captain had no wife and he had gone a fishin' [00:59.49] [01:00.19]And we kicked up high down below stairs in the kitchen [01:03.56]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:07.56]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:11.10]Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table [01:14.92]She handed tay and cake and I ate while I was able [01:18.87]I drank hot punch and tay till me side had got to stitchin' [01:22.34]And the hours passed quick away when you're courting in the kitchen [01:25.81]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:29.83]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:33.33]With me arms around her waist she slyly hinted marriage [01:37.19]To the door in dreadful haste came Captain Kelly's carriage [01:40.94]Her eyes down filled with hate and poison she was spittin' [01:44.77]When the Captain at the door walked right into the kitchen [01:48.35]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:52.32]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:56.01]She flew up off me knees full five feet up or higher [01:59.69]And over head and heels through me slap into the fire [02:03.53]Me new repealer's coat that I bought from Mr Mitchell [02:07.31]With a twenty shilling note went to blazes in the kitchen [02:10.76]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:14.80]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:18.49]I grieved to see me duds all smeared with soot and ashes [02:22.41]When a tub of dirty suds right in me face she dashes [02:26.11]As I lay on the floor the water she kept pitchin' [02:29.77]The footman broke the door and walked straight into the kitchen [02:33.47]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:37.32]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:40.91]When the Captain came downstairs though he saw me situation [02:44.81]In spite all of me prayers I was marched off to the station [02:48.58]For me they'd take no bail but to get home I was itchin' [02:52.38]But I had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen [02:55.87]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:59.87]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [03:03.68]I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial [03:07.20]For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial [03:11.00]She swore I robbed the house in spite of all her screechin' [03:14.78]And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen [03:18.50]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:22.39]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie