AFTER THE BALL

A little maiden climbed an old mans knees

Begged for a story: "Do uncle, please!

Why are you single, why live alone?

Have you no babies, have you no home?"

"I had a sweetheart, years, years ago,

Where she is now, pet, you will soon know;

List to the story, Ill tell it all:

I believed her faithless after the ball.

Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom,

Softly the music playing sweet tunes.

There came my sweetheart, my love, my own,

I wish some water; leave me alone.

When I returned, dear, there stood a man

Kissing my sweetheart as lovers can.

Down fell the glass, pet, broken, thats all

Just as my heart was after the ball.

Long years have passed, child, I have never wed,

True to my lost love though she is dead.

She tried to tell me, tried to explain

I would not listen, pleadings were vain.

One day a letter came from that man;

He was her brother, the letter ran.

Thats why Im lonely, no home at all

I broke her heart, pet, after the ball."

Chorus:

After the ball is over, after the break of morn,

After the dancers' leaving, after the stars are gone,

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