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T: After the Ball
C: Words and music: Charles K Harris
R: waltz
Z: 2006 John Chambers <jc:trillian.mit.edu>
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L: 1/8
F:http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/waltz/AfterTheBall_Bb_w.abc	 2024-06-03 120030 UT
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"Intro"
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"Verse"\
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w: 1.~A lit-tle maid-en climbed an old man's knee.
w: 2.~Bright lights were flash-ing in the grand ball-room,
w: 3.~Long years have passed child,* I've nev-er wed,
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w: Begged for a sto-ry "Do, Un-cle, please."
w: Soft-ly the mu-sic, play-ing sweet tunes.
w: True to my lost love, though she is dead.
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w: Why are you sin-gle; why live a-lone?
w: There came my sweet-heart, my love, my own,
w: She tried to tell me, tried to ex-plain;
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w: Have you no ba-bies; have you no home?
w: "I wish some wa-ter." "Leave me a-lone."
w: I would not lis-ten, plead-ings were vain,
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w: "I had a sweet-heart, years, years a-go,
w: When I re-turned, dear, there stood a man,
w: One day a let-ter came from that man,
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w: Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.
w: Kiss-ing my sweet-heart as lov-ers can.
w: He was her broth-er, the let-ter ran.
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w: List to the sto-ry, I'll tell it all,
w: Down fell the glass, pet, brok-en, that's all,
w: That's why I'm lone-ly, no home at all;
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w: I be-lieved her faith-less, af-ter the ball.
w: Just* as my heart was, af-ter the ball.
w: I* broke her heart, pet, af-ter the ball.
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w: Af-ter the ball is o-ver, af-ter the break of morn,
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w: Af-ter the dan-cers' leav-ing, af-ter the stars are gone,
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w: Ma-ny a heart is ach-ing, if you could read them all.
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w: Ma-ny the hopes that have van-ished af-ter the ball.