Courtin' in the Kitchen-Ruby Murray

[ti:Courtin' In The Kitchen] [ar:Ruby Murray] [al:Anthology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:04.42]Come single guy and gal unto me pay attention [00:07.37] [00:08.31]Don't ever fall in love [00:10.13]It's the devil's own invention [00:11.42] [00:12.15]For once he fell in love with a maiden so bewitching [00:15.37] [00:16.12]Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly's kitchen [00:19.27] [00:20.10]With me toora loora la me toora loora laddie [00:23.90] [00:25.09]Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie [00:28.37]At the age of seventeen I apprenticed to a grocer [00:31.60] [00:32.26]Not far from Stephen's Green [00:33.62] [00:34.18]Where Miss Henri' used to go sir [00:36.28]Her manners were sublime she set my heart a-twitchin' [00:39.36] [00:40.18]When she invited me to a party in the kitchen [00:43.47] [00:56.58]Sunday was the day that they were to have their flare-up [01:00.31]He dressed himself quite gay [01:02.20]I frizzed and oiled my hair up [01:03.84] [01:04.39]The Captain had no wife and he had gone a-fishin' [01:07.48] [01:08.13]She groped me on the stairs beneath the old man's kitchen [01:11.26] [01:20.78]Her arms around my waist she slyly hinted marriage [01:23.55] [01:24.36]When to the door in haste came Captain Kelly's carriage [01:27.55] [01:28.71]Her eyes were full of hate and poison she was spittin' [01:31.92] [01:32.55]The Captain kicked the door in and stormed into the kitchen [01:35.97] [01:48.87]When the Captain came downstairs he saw my situation [01:51.85] [01:52.83]In spite of all his prayers he was marched off to the station [01:56.56] [01:57.08]For him they'd take no bail [01:58.52] [01:59.08]To get home I was itchin' [02:01.18]He had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen [02:04.20] [02:14.08]I said she did invite me [02:15.78]But she gave flat denial [02:17.25]For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial [02:20.74] [02:21.34]She swore he'd robbed her house [02:23.58]In spite of all her screechin' [02:24.95] [02:25.51]I got six months hard [02:27.49]For his courtin' in the kitchen