Courtin’ In The Kitchenコーティン・イン・ザ・キッチン

TITLE: Courtin’ In The Kitchen（コーティン・イン・ザ・キッチン）
AUTHOR:
PERFORMER: The Clancy Brothers And Tommy Makem（ザ・クランシー・ブラザーズ・アンド・トミー・メーカム）

あなたは若い男性です。公園を歩いていると、見目麗しき女性が近づいてきて、旦那が釣りに行く日があるからそのときに一緒にうちでパーティーでもどう、と誘われたとします。

旦那がいる女性だということなどすっかり忘れて、約束の日時にバッチリきめて颯爽と出かけていくとします。

楽しいときを二人っきりで過ごしていたら、旦那が予定外の時間に帰ってきたとします。

ばれたとします。問いただされます。殺されはしません。裁判にかけられます。さあ、どうなってしまうでしょう。

正解は、半年間刑務所に入る、でした。

人生いつも危険と隣り合わせである、ということを肝に銘じて行動しなければならない、と言わなければならないほど、素敵な現実が待っているかも、ということです。

Stephen’s Green: スティーブンズ・グリーン、アイルランドの首都ダブリンにある公園
Repealers coat: リピーラーズ・コート、コート、つまり外套なのだが、どんなものかは分からない

Come single belle or 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 maiden so bewitchin’
Miss Henrietta Bell out of Captain Kelly’s kitchen

With me toora loora la, me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la toora loora laddy

At the age of seventeen I was ‘prenticed to a grocer
Not far from Stephen’s Green where Miss Henri used to go sir
Her manners were sublime she set me heart a-twitchin’
And she invited me to a hooley in the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

Next Sunday bein’ the day we were to have the flare-up
I dressed meself quite gay and I frizzed and oiled my hair up
The Captain had no wife and he had gone a-fishin’
And we kicked up high life down belowstairs in the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

Just as the clock struck six we sat down to the table
She handed tea and cake and I ate while I was able
I drank hot punch and tea till my side had got a stitch in
And the hours passed quick away when you’re courtin’ in the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

With my 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 poison she was spittin’
When the Captain at the door walked straight into the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

She flew up off my knees full five feet up or higher
And over head and heels threw me slap into the fire
Me new Repealers coat that I bought from Mr. Mitchell
With a twenty shilling note went to blazes in the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

I grieved to see me duds all smeared with sods and ashes
When a tub of dirty suds right in me face she dashes
As I lay on the floor and the water she kept pitchin’
The footman broke the door and walked straight in the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

When the Captain came downstairs though he saw my situation
In spite of all my prayers I was marched off to the station
For me they’d take no bail, but to get home I was itchin’
But I had to tell the tale how I came into the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

I said she did invite me but she gave a flat denial
For assault she did indict me and I was sent for trial
She swore I robbed the house in spite of all her screechin’
And I got six months hard for me courtin’ in the kitchen

With me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy
Me toora loora la with me toora loora laddy

独り身の諸君よ、心して聞いてくれ
悪魔の仕業たる恋に落ちてはならぬぞ
見とれてしまうほどのヘンリエッタ・ベルと
ケリー大佐のキッチンで恋に落ちた話だ