Courting In The Kitchen-The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

[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 & Tommy Makem [00:02.79]Come single belle and beau unto me pay attention [00:06.59]Don't ever fall in love it's the Devil's own invention [00:10.37]For once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin' [00:14.28]Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly's kitchen [00:17.85]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:21.82]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:25.67]At the age of seventeen I was prenticed to a grocer [00:29.50]Not far from Steven's Green where Miss Henry used to go sir [00:33.29]Her manners were sublime she set me heart a twitchin' [00:37.00]And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen [00:40.88]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [00:44.66]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [00:48.44]Next Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up [00:52.24]I dressed myself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up [00:55.69] [00:56.19]The Captain had no wife and he had gone a fishin' [00:59.28] [00:59.98]And we kicked up high down below stairs in the kitchen [01:03.35]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:07.35]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:10.89]Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table [01:14.72]She handed tay and cake and I ate while I was able [01:18.66]I drank hot punch and tay till me side had got to stitchin' [01:22.13]And the hours passed quick away when you're courting in the kitchen [01:25.60]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:29.62]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:33.12]With me arms around her waist she slyly hinted marriage [01:36.98]To the door in dreadful haste came Captain Kelly's carriage [01:40.73]Her eyes down filled with hate and poison she was spittin' [01:44.56]When the Captain at the door walked right into the kitchen [01:48.14]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [01:52.11]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [01:55.80]She flew up off me knees full five feet up or higher [01:59.48]And over head and heels through me slap into the fire [02:03.32]Me new repealer's coat that I bought from Mr Mitchell [02:07.10]With a twenty shilling note went to blazes in the kitchen [02:10.55]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:14.59]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:18.28]I grieved to see me duds all smeared with soot and ashes [02:22.20]When a tub of dirty suds right in me face she dashes [02:25.90]As I lay on the floor the water she kept pitchin' [02:29.56]The footman broke the door and walked straight into the kitchen [02:33.26]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:37.11]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [02:40.70]When the Captain came downstairs though he saw me situation [02:44.60]In spite all of me prayers I was marched off to the station [02:48.37]For me they'd take no bail but to get home I was itchin' [02:52.17]But I had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen [02:55.66]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [02:59.66]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie [03:03.47]I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial [03:07.00]For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial [03:10.79]She swore I robbed the house in spite of all her screechin' [03:14.57]And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen [03:18.29]With me too ra loo ra la me too ra loo ra laddie [03:22.19]Me too ra loo ra la too ra loo ra laddie