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 [00:03.27]Come single belle and beau unto me pay attention [00:07.07]Don't ever fall in love it's the Devil's own invention [00:10.85]For once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin' [00:14.76]Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly's kitchen [00:18.33]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:22.30]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:26.15]At the age of seventeen I was prenticed to a grocer [00:29.98]Not far from Steven's Green where Miss Henry used to go sir [00:33.77]Her manners were sublime she set me heart a twitchin' [00:37.48]And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen [00:41.37]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:45.14]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:48.92]Next Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up [00:52.73]I dressed myself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up [00:56.17] [00:56.67]The Captain had no wife and he had gone a fishin' [00:59.76] [01:00.46]And we kicked up high down below stairs in the kitchen [01:03.83]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:07.83]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:11.37]Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table [01:15.20]She handed tay and cake and I ate while I was able [01:19.14]I drank hot punch and tay till me side had got to stitchin' [01:22.61]And the hours passed quick away when you're courting in the kitchen [01:26.08]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:30.10]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:33.61]With me arms around her waist she slyly hinted marriage [01:37.46]To the door in dreadful haste came Captain Kelly's carriage [01:41.21]Her eyes down filled with hate and poison she was spittin' [01:45.04]When the Captain at the door walked right into the kitchen [01:48.62]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:52.59]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:56.28]She flew up off me knees full five feet up or higher [01:59.96]And over head and heels through me slap into the fire [02:03.80]Me new repealer's coat that I bought from Mr Mitchell [02:07.58]With a twenty shilling note went to blazes in the kitchen [02:11.04]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:15.07]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:18.76]I grieved to see me duds all smeared with soot and ashes [02:22.68]When a tub of dirty suds right in me face she dashes [02:26.38]As I lay on the floor the water she kept pitchin' [02:30.04]The footman broke the door and walked straight into the kitchen [02:33.74]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:37.59]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:41.19]When the Captain came downstairs though he saw me situation [02:45.08]In spite all of me prayers I was marched off to the station [02:48.85]For me they'd take no bail but to get home I was itchin' [02:52.65]But I had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen [02:56.14]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:00.14]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [03:03.96]I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial [03:07.48]For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial [03:11.28]She swore I robbed the house in spite of all her screechin' [03:15.05]And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen [03:18.77]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:22.67]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie