Come single belle and beau
Unto me pay attention
Don't ever fall in love
It's the devil's own invention
Well once I fell in love
With a maiden so bewitching
Miss Henrietta Bell
Out of Captain Kelly's Kitchen
With me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
Me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me Too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
At the age of seventeen
I was apprenticed to a grocer
And not far from Stephen's Green
Where Miss Henri used to go sir
Her manners were so sublime
She set me heart a twitching
She invited me
To a hooley in Captain Kelly's kitchen
With me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
Me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me Too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
Next Sunday being the day
We were to have the flare up
I dressed myself all gay
And I frizzed an oiled me hair up
The captain had no wife
And he'd gone off a fishing
And we kicked up the highlife
Below the stairs in the kitchen
With me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
Me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me Too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
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 the poison she was spitting
When the Captain came downstairs
Right below there in the kitchen
With me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
Me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me Too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
When the Captain came downstairs
Why he saw my situation
In spite of all my prayers
I was marched up to the station
She said I robbed the house
And to get home I was itching
But I got six months hard
For my courting in the kitchen
With me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me too-rah-loo-rah-laddie
Me too-rah-loo-rah-la
And me Too-rah-loo-rah-laddie