After the ball / words and music by Chas. K. Harris

VERSE 01: A little maiden climbed an old man's knee,/ 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 soon will know./ List to the story, I'll tell you it, all,/ I believed her faithless, after the ball.
CHORUS: After the ball is over,/ After the break of morn,/ After the dancers leaving,/ After the stars are gone,/ Many a heart is aching,/ If you could read them all;/ Many the hopes that have vanished,/ After the ball
VERSE 02: Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom,/ Softly the music, played the 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 that's all,/ Just as my heart was, after the ball.
VERSE 03: Long years have passed child I've 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./ That's why I'm lonely, no home at all,/ I broke her heart pet, after the ball.