{"id":1407,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/courtin-in-the-kitchen"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"courtin-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/courtin-in-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"COURTIN’ IN THE KITCHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Come single belle and beau, unto me pay attention
\nDon’t ever fall in love, tis the devil’s own invention
\nFor once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin’
\nMiss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly’s kitchen<\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nWith me too-rah-loo-rah-lay, me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
\nWith me too-rah-loo-rah-lay, me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie<\/p>\n

At the age of seventeen I was ‘prenticed to a grocer
\nNot far from Stephen’s Green where Miss Henri used to go sir
\nHer manners were so fine, she set me heart a twitchin’
\nWhen she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen<\/p>\n

Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up
\nI dressed meself quite gay and I frizzed an oiled me hair up
\nThe captain had no wife and he’d gone off a fishin’
\nSo we kicked up the highlife below the stairs in the kitchen<\/p>\n

With me arms around her waist, she slyly hinted marriage
\nWhen to the door in haste came Captain Kelly’s carriage
\nHer looks told me full well and they were not bewitchin’
\nThat she wished I’d get to hell, or somewhere from the kitchen<\/p>\n

She flew up off my knees, full five feet up or higher
\nAnd over head and heels threw me slap into the fire!
\nMy new Repealer’s coat, that I bought from Mr. Stichen
\nWith a thirty-shilling note, went to blazes in the kitchen<\/p>\n

I grieved to see my duds, all besmeared with smoke and ashes
\nWhen a tub of dirty suds right in my face she dashes
\nAs I lay on the floor still the water she kept pitchin’
\n‘Till the footman broke the door, and marched down into the kitchen<\/p>\n

When the Captain came downstairs though he seen me situation
\nDespite all me prayers I was marched off to the station
\nFor me they’d take no bail though to get home I was itchin’
\nAnd I had to tell the tale how I came in to the kitchen<\/p>\n

I said she did invite me, but she gave a flat denial
\nFor assault she did indite me and I was sent for trial
\nShe swore I’d robbed her house in spite of all her screechin’
\nAnd I got six months hard for me courtin’ in the kitchen<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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