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Come single belle and beau
And to me pay attention
Don't ever fall in love
It's the Devil's own invention
Once I fell in love
With a maiden so bewitching
Miss Henrietta Bell
Out of Captain Kelly's kitchen
With me toora loora la
Me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la
And me toora loora laddie
At the age of seventeen
I was apprenticed to a grocer
Not far from Stephen's Green
Where Miss Henry used to go, sir
Her manners were sublime
And she set me heart a-twitching
She invited me to a holey in the kitchen
With me toora loora la
Me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la
And me toora loora laddie
Next Sunday being the day
We were to have the flare-up
I dressed myself quite gay
And I frizzed and oiled me hair up
The Captain had no wife
And he had gone out fishing
So we kicked up high life
Down below stairs in the kitchen
With me toora loora la
Me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la
And me toora loora laddie
With her arms around my 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 out the door
Walked straight into the kitchen
With me toora loora la
Me toora loora laddie
Me toora loora la
And me toora loora laddie
When the Captain came downstairs
He saw me situation
In spite of all me prayers
I was marched off to the station
For me they take no bail
Though to get home I was itching
But I had to tell the tale
Of how I came into the kitchen
With me toora loora la