Courtin' in the Kitchen

Come single belle and beau, unto me pay attention
Don't ever fall in love, it's the Devil's own invention
Once I fell in love with a lady so bewitchin'
Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly's kitchen

With me tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy
Tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy

At the age of seventeen, I was apprenticed to a grocer
Not far from Steven's Green, where Miss Henri used to go, sir
Her manners were so fine, she sent my heart a-twitchin'
She invited me to a-courtin' in her kitchen

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Tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy

Next Sunday be the day, that we were to have our flare-up
I dressed meself quite gay, and I frizz an oiled me hair up
The Captain had no wife, he had gone a-fishin'
So we kicked off my life to her hooley in the kitchen

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Tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy

She slipped up to her room, I says "Good Lord Allmighty!"
She came back down the stairs wearin' nothin' but her nightie
With her arms around me waist, she slyly hinted marriage
When to the door in haste came Captain Kelly's carriage

With me tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy
Tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy

When the Captain came downstairs, though he seen me situation
In spite of all me prayers, I was marched off to the station
For me they set no bail, though to get home I was itchin'
And I had to tell the tale of how I came into the kitchen

Well I swore she did invite me, though she gave a flat denial
For assualt they did indict me, and I was sent for trial
She swore I robbed the house in spite of all me screechin'
And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen

With me tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy
Tooral-ooral-I, tooral-ooral-addy...