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Courtin' in the Kitchen

from Shenanigans by The New Ruffians

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Come single belle and beau, unto me pay attention
Don’t ever fall in love, it’s the devil’s own invention
For Once I fell in love with a lady so bewitching
Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly’s kitchen

Singing toora loora la, toora loora laddie,
toora loora la, with me toora loora laddie

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 so fine, she set my heart a-twitchin’
She invited me to a hoolie’ in the kitchen

Singing toora loora la, toora loora laddie,
toora loora la, with me toora loora laddie

Next Sunday being the day, that we went to have a flare-up
I dressed me self quite gay and I frizzed and oiled me hair up
The captain had no wife, and he had gone on fishin’
And we kicked up high life downstairs in the kitchen

Singing toora loora la, toora loora laddie,
toora loora la, with me toora loora laddie

With her arms around me waist, she slyly hinted marriage
When to the door in haste, came captain Kelly’s carriage
Her eyes were full of hate, the poision she was spittin’
When the captain and the guards come marchin to the Kitchen

Singing toora loora la, toora loora laddie,
toora loora la, with me toora loora laddie

When the captain came downstairs, oh he saw me situation
In spite of all me prayers, I was marched off to the station
For me they’d give no bail, but to get to the home I was itchin’
And I had to tell the tale, of my courtin in the kitchen

Singing toora loora la, toora loora laddie,
toora loora la, with me toora loora laddie

Well, I swore she did invite me, though she gave a flat denial
For assault, they did indict me and I was sent for trial
She said I robbed the house in spite of all me screechin’
And I got six months in jail, for me courtin’ in the kitchen
Chorus x 2

credits

from Shenanigans, released November 27, 2020
Daran Crook: Vocal and Guitar
Paul Dunn: Cajon, Percussion and Backing Vocal
David Dunn: Bass Guitar and Backing Vocal
Richard Harvey: Accordion and Melodica

Recorded and engineered by Sam Draisey
Mixed by Paul Dunn and Mike Wyatt
Mastered by Mike Wyatt

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The New Ruffians Wolverhampton, UK

Four multi-instumentalist Midlanders playing a heady mix of traditional Celtic music, Ska, R’n’R, Indie & Punk.

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