Intro:
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Come single belle and beau unto me pay attention
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Don't ever fall in love - it's the devil's own invention
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Once I fell in love with a lady so bewitching
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Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain Kelly's Kitchen

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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.

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At the age of seventeen I was apprentice to a grocer
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Not far from Stephen's Green where Miss Henri used to go, sir
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Her manners were so fine, she set my heart a twitchin'
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She invited me to a Courtin' in the Kitchen!

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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.

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Next Sunday be the day that we were to have our flare up
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I dressed meself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up
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The captain had no wife, he had gone a fishin'
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So we kicked up our life to a hooley in her kitchen!

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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy. 


[solo section]

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        (repeat 4 times)

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She slipped up to her room , I said: "Good Lord Almighty!"
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She came back down the stairs wearing nothing but her nighty!
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With her arms around me waist she slyly hinted marriage
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When to the door in haste came Captain Kelly's carriage!

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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.

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Well the Captain came downstairs though he saw me situation
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In spite of all me prayers I was marched off to the station
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For me they set no bail though to get home I was itchen'
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And I had to tell the tale of how I came into that kitchen

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Well I swore she did invite me though she gave a flat denial
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For assault they did indict me and I was sent for trial
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She swore I robbed the house in spite of all me screechin'
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And I got six months hard for me courtin' in the kitchen!

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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy.
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Toura loura lie; toura loura laddy...

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