Courtin' In The Kitchen (2/2)
Come single belle and beau, un - to me pay at –
ten-tion
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Don't ev-er fall in love, it's
the dev-il's own in-vention
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For once I fell in love with a maiden so
be-witching
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Miss Hen-ri-et-ta Bell down in Cap-tain
Kelly's kitchen With me …
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toora loora lai, me toora
loora laddie, Sing
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toora loora lai, sing toora loora laddie
G
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At the age of seven - teen I was 'pren-ticed to a groc-er
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D7
Not far from Stephen's Green where Miss Bell,
she used to go sir
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G
Her man-ners were su-blime and she set
me heart a-twitch-in'
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When she invited me to a hool-ey in the
kit-chen With me …
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D
Now, Sun-day bein' the day that we were to have the flare-up -
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I dressed meself quite gay and I frizzed
and oiled me hair up
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G G
The Cap-tain had no wife and he had gone
a-fish-in'
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And we kicked up high life with no care down in the
kit-chen With me …
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With her arm around me waist, she sly-ly hinted mar-riage
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When to the door in haste, came Cap-tain
Kelly's car-riage
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Her eyes told me full well as pi-sen
she was spit-tin'
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That she wished I’d be to HELL, any where
but in the kit-chen With me …
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D
When the Cap-tain came down-stairs, he saw me sit-u - a-tion
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In spite of all me pray-ers I was marched
off to the sta-tion
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G
For me they'd take no bail, though to get
home I was itch-in'
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And I had to tell the tale, how I came
in-to the kit-chen With me …
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D
Now, I said she did in - vite me, she gave
a flat de-ni-al
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D7
For as - sault she did in - dict me, and I
was sent for tr-ial
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G
She swore I robbed the house in spite
of all her screech-in'
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And I got six months hard for me
court-in' in the kitch-en With me …