After the Ball

After the Ball - Arcady

Composer：Curtis

A little maiden climbed an old man's knee

Begs for a story

Do uncle please

Why are you lonely

Why do you roam

Have you no sweetheart have you no home

I had a sweetheart long long ago

Why we were not wed you soon will know

List to my story

I'll tell it all

I broke her heart then

After the ball

After the ball is over

Just at the break of dawn

After the dance is ended

And all the stars are gone

Many's the heart tha'ts aching

If you could read them all

Many the hopes that's vanished

After the ball

Low lights were shining in the big ballroom

Softly the organ was playing the tunes

There stood my sweetheart my love my own

I wished some water leave me alone

When I returned pet there stood a man

Kissing my sweetheart as lovers can

Down went the glass pet broken the fall

Just like my heart was after the ball

After the ball is over

Just at the break of dawn

After the dance is ended

And all the stars are gone

Many's the heart tha'ts aching

If you could read them all

Many the hopes that's vanished

After the ball

Many years have gone by I've have not wed

True to my first love though she is dead

She tried to tell me tried to explain

I would not listen pleading in vain

One day a letter came from this man

He was her brother

The letter ran

That's why I'm lonely no home at all

I broke her heart then after the ball

After the ball is over

Just at the break of dawn

After the band is ended

And all this stars are gone

Many's the heart tha'ts aching

If you could read them all

Many the hopes that's vanished

After the ball

Many the hopes that's vanished

After the ball