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Tooral ooral
ooral ooral a, tooral ooral addy.
Come single belle and beau,
unto me pay attention,
Don't ever fall in love for 'tis the devil's
own invention.
Once I fell in love with a maiden so bewitchin',
Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly's kitchen.
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',
And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen.
Next Sunday being the day we were to have the flare up,
I dressed
meself quite gay, an' I frizzed and oiled my hair up.
The captain had
n-o wife, faith, he had gone out fishing,
So we kicked up high life
down below stairs on the kitchen.
Just as the clock struck six we
sat down to the table,
She handed tea and cake and I ate while I was
able.
I drank hot punch and tea till me sides had got a stitch in,
And the hours passed quick away with the courtin' in the kitchen.
With me 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 spitting,
When the Captain at the
door walked straight into the kitchen.
She flew up off my knees,
full five feet up or higher,
And over head and heels, threw me slap
into the fire.
My new Repealer's coast, that I bought from Mr.
Mitchell,
With a twenty shilling note, went to blazes in the kitchen.
I grieved to see my duds, all smeared with soot and ashed,
When a
tub of dirty suds, right in my face she dashed.
As I lay on the floor
and the water she kept pitchin',
The footman broke the door, and
marched down into the kitchen.
When the Captain came downstairs,
tho' he 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',
But I had to tell the tale, how I came into the kitchen.
I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial,
For
assault she did indict me and I was sent to trial.
She swore I robbed
the house in spite of all her screetchin',
And I got six months hard
for me courtin' in the kitchen.