#600 - After the Ball

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• Composer:
  • Charles Kassell Harris

    • #600 - After the Ball
    • #1055 - Hearts
    • #1086 - There'll Come a Time
    • #1102 - Break the News to Mother
    • #2016 - After the Ball, Waltz Song
    • #2036 - After Nine / Hello! Central, Hello!

    (1867-1930), 1892
  • popularized in the musical A Trip to Chinatown

    • #600 - After the Ball
    • #1004 - The Bowery
    • #1059 - Only One Girl in the World for Me
    • #1061 - The Sunshine of Paradise Alley
    • #2016 - After the Ball, Waltz Song
    • #2023 - The Bowery, Waltz
    • #2031 - Push Dem Clouds Away
    • #2080 - 1. Mrs. Flarity, What do You Mean by That? / 2. Do, Do, My Huckleberry
    • #2132 - Only One Girl in the World for Me
    • #2134 - 1. My Best Girl's a New Yorker / 2. The Sunshine of Paradise Alley

    , 1891
• Also known as:
  • Liebestraum
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• Incipit: 3536353637464747323
• Condensed Incipit: 3536353637464747323
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• Lyrics:
  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 will soon know.
  List to the story, I'll tell it all
  I believ'd her faithless, after the ball.”
  
  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.
  
  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, that's all
  Just as my heart was, after the ball.
  
  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.
  
  
  • Charles Kassell Harris

    • #600 - After the Ball
    • #1055 - Hearts
    • #1086 - There'll Come a Time
    • #1102 - Break the News to Mother
    • #2016 - After the Ball, Waltz Song
    • #2036 - After Nine / Hello! Central, Hello!

    (1867-1930), 1892
• See also:
  • #2016 - After the Ball, Waltz Song
  • #2035 - Love's Dream After the Ball