Come single guy and gal unto me pay attention 

Don't ever fall in love 

It's the devil's own invention 

For once he fell in love with a maiden so bewitching 

Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly's kitchen 



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With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddie 

Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie 



At the age of seventeen I apprenticed to a grocer 

Not far from Stephen's Green 

Where Miss Henri' used to go sir 

Her manners were sublime she set my heart a-twitchin' 

When she invited me to a party in the kitchen 



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Sunday was the day that they were to have their flare-up 

He dressed himself quite gay 

I frizzed and oiled my hair up 

The Captain had no wife and he had gone a-fishin' 

She groped me on the stairs beneath the old man's kitchen 



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Her arms around my waist she slyly hinted marriage 

When to the door in haste came Captain Kelly's carriage 

Her eyes were full of hate and poison she was spittin' 

The Captain kicked the door in and stormed into the kitchen 



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When the Captain came downstairs he saw my situation 

In spite of all his prayers he was marched off to the station 

For him they'd take no bail 

To get home I was itchin' 

He had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen 



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I said she did invite me 

But she gave flat denial 

For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial 

She swore he'd robbed her house 

In spite of all her screechin' 

I got six months hard 

For his courtin' in the kitchen 



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