Key: B major
Intro 1
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Dropkick Murphys - CAPTAIN KELLY'S KITCHEN (COURTIN' IN
Verse 1
E
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THE KITCHEN)
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Come single guy and gal unto
Verse 2
B
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me pay attention
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Don't ever fall in love
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It's the devil's own invention
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For once he fell in love with
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a maiden so bewitching
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Miss Henrietta Bell down in Captain
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Kelly's kitchen
CHORUS: With me toora loora la, me
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toora loora laddie
Verse 3
B
Me
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toora loora la and me
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toora loora laddie
Verse 4
B
At the age of seventeen
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I apprenticed to a gro cer
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Not far from Stephen's Green
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Where Miss Henri' used to go sir
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Her manners were sublime she
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set my heart a- twitchin'
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When she invited me to a party
in the kitchen
Verse 5
B
CHORUS: With me
toora loora la,
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me toora loora laddie
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Me toora loora la and me
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toora loora laddie
Verse 6
B
Sunday was the day that they
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were to have their flare- up
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He dressed himself quite gay
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I frizzed and oiled my hair up
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The Captain had no wife and
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he had gone a- fishin'
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She groped me on the stairs be
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neath the old man's kitchen
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CHORUS: With me toora loora la,
Verse 7
B
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me toora loora laddie
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Me toora loora la and me
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B
toora loora laddie
Verse 8
B
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'
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The Captain kicked the door in and
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stormed into the kitchen
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CHORUS: With me
Verse 9
toora loora la,
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me toora loora laddie
B
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Me toora loora la and me toora loor
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a laddie
Interlude 1
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E
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When the Captain came
Verse 10
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downstairs he saw my situation
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In spite of all his prayers he was marched
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off to the station
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For him they'd take no bail
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To get home I was itchin'
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He had to tell the tale how I came
into the kitchen
Verse 11
B
CHORUS:
With me toora loora la,
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me toora loora laddie
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B
Me toora loora la and me toora loora laddie
Verse 12
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I said she did invite me
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But she gave flat denial
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For assault she did indict me
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and I was sent for tri al
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She swore he'd robbed her house
In spite of all her screechin'
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E
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I got six months hard
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For his courtin' in the kitchen
Verse 13
CHORUS: With me toora loora la,
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me toora loora laddie
B
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Me toora loora la and me
B
toora loora laddie
Outro 1
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