Courtin' 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]Courtin' In The Kitchen - The Clancy Brothers [00:03.29]Come single belle and beau unto me pay attention [00:07.09]Don't ever fall in love it's the Devil's own invention [00:10.86]For once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin' [00:14.78]Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly's kitchen [00:18.34]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:22.31]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:26.16]At the age of seventeen I was prenticed to a grocer [00:29.99]Not far from Steven's Green where Miss Henry used to go sir [00:33.78]Her manners were sublime she set me heart a twitchin' [00:37.50]And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen [00:41.38]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:45.16]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:48.93]Next Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up [00:52.74]I dressed myself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up [00:56.18] [00:56.68]The Captain had no wife and he had gone a fishin' [00:59.78] [01:00.48]And we kicked up high down below stairs in the kitchen [01:03.84]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:07.84]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:11.38]Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table [01:15.21]She handed tay and cake and I ate while I was able [01:19.16]I drank hot punch and tay till me side had got to stitchin' [01:22.62]And the hours passed quick away when you're courting in the kitchen [01:26.10]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:30.11]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:33.62]With me arms around her waist she slyly hinted marriage [01:37.47]To the door in dreadful haste came Captain Kelly's carriage [01:41.22]Her eyes down filled with hate and poison she was spittin' [01:45.06]When the Captain at the door walked right into the kitchen [01:48.64]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:52.61]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:56.30]She flew up off me knees full five feet up or higher [01:59.97]And over head and heels through me slap into the fire [02:03.81]Me new repealer's coat that I bought from Mr Mitchell [02:07.59]With a twenty shilling note went to blazes in the kitchen [02:11.05]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:15.08]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:18.77]I grieved to see me duds all smeared with soot and ashes [02:22.70]When a tub of dirty suds right in me face she dashes [02:26.40]As I lay on the floor the water she kept pitchin' [02:30.06]The footman broke the door and walked straight into the kitchen [02:33.75]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:37.61]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:41.20]When the Captain came downstairs though he saw me situation [02:45.09]In spite all of me prayers I was marched off to the station [02:48.87]For me they'd take no bail but to get home I was itchin' [02:52.66]But I had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen [02:56.15]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:00.16]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [03:03.97]I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial [03:07.49]For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial [03:11.29]She swore I robbed the house in spite of all her screechin' [03:15.06]And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen [03:18.78]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:22.68]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie