The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Courting in the Kitchen Lyrics

Lyrics Courting in the Kitchen - Tommy Makem , The Clancy Brothers



Come single belle and beau, to me now pay attention
Don't ever fall in love, it's the devil's own invention
For once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin'
Miss Henrietta Bell, out of Captain Kelly's kitchen
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, me toora loora laddy.
At the age of seventeen, I was 'prenticed to a grocer
Not far from Stephen's Green, where Miss Henry used to go, sir
Her manners were sublime, she set me heart a-twitchin'
She invited me to a hooley in the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
Next Sunday bein' the day we were to have the flare-up
I dressed myself quite gay, an' I frizzed and oiled my hair up
The Captain had no wife, he had gone out a-fishin'
So we kicked up high life, down below-stairs in the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table
She handed tea and cakes --- I ate while I was able,
I drank hot punch and tea, till my side had got a stitch in
And the hours pass quick away, when courtin' in the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
With my arms around her waist, she slyly hinted marriage
To the door in dreadful haste came Captain Kelly's carriage!
Her eyes soon filled with hate and poison she was spittin'
When the captain at the door, walked right into the kitchen
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
She flew up off my knees, full five feet up or higher
And over heads and heels, threw me slap into the fire
My new Repealers coat, that I'd bought from Mrs. Stichen
With a thirty-shilling note, went to blazes in the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
I grieved to see my duds, all smeared with smoke and ashes
When a tub of dirty suds, right in my face she dashes.
As I lay on the floor, and the water she kept pitchin'
Till the footman broke the door, and marched into the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
When the Captain came downstairs, though and saw my situation
In spite of all my prayers I was marched off to the station
For me they'd take no bail, tho' to get home I was itchin'
And I had to tell the tale of how I got in the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.
I said she did invite me, but she gave a flat denial
For assault she did indict me, and I was sent for trial.
She swore I robbed the house, in spite of all her screechin'
And I got six months hard, for my coortin' in the kitchen.
To my toora loora la, my toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la, toora loora laddy.



Writer(s): Clancy Bros.


The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem HiFi Hits
Album The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem HiFi Hits
date of release
08-05-2012

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19 The Castle of Dromore
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21 The Bold Tenant Farmer
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23 Ballinderry
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25 Bungle Rye
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27 Eileen Aroon
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29 Johnny I Hardley Knew You
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31 Whiskey You're the Devil
32 Whiskey You're the Devil
33 The Work of the Weavers
34 The Work of the Weavers
35 The Moonshiner
36 The Moonshiner
37 Bold Thady Quill
38 Bold Thady Quill
39 Rosin The Bow
40 Rosin the Bow
41 Finnigan's Wake
42 Finnigan's Wake
43 Real Old Mountain Dew
44 Real Old Mountain Dew
45 Courting in the Kitchen
46 Courting in the Kitchen
47 Mick Mcguire
48 Mick McGuire
49 A Jug O' Punch
50 A Jug O' Punch
51 Johnny McEldoo
52 Johnny Mceldoo
53 Cruiscin Lan
54 Cruiscin Lan
55 Portlairge
56 Portlairge
57 The Parting Glass
58 The Parting Glass
59 The Rising of the Moon
60 The Rising of the Moon
61 The Croppy Boy
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63 The Foggy Dew
64 The Foggy Dew
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67 The Wind That Shakes the Barley
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