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After The Ball
Words and Music by Charles. K. Harris - 1892
 Verse:
Bb                      -                           -                           -                        
- - F7 -
- - - -
- - Bb -                  
- - - -
- D7 Gm -
Eb Edim7 Bb -
C7 F7 Bb -
Gm - D7 -
Eb F7 Bb -
Eb Edim7 Bb -
C7 - F7 -
Bb - - -
- D7 Gm -
Eb Edim7 Bb -
C7 F7 Bb -
 Chorus:
Bb - - -
- - F7 -
- - Fdim7 F7
- - Bb -
- - - -
G7 - C C7
F7 - Bb -
C7 F7 Bb -      (repeat chorus)
6-beat intro.  Play 3-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.  Note: This song is in 3/4 waltz time.
Each row of chords above aligns with each line of lyrics below.  Disregard the gray cells.
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Verse:
A lit -tle maid -en
Climbed an old man's knee.
Begged for a sto -ry "
Do Un -cle please."
Why are you sin -gle;
Why live a -lone?
Have you no ba -bies;
Have you no home?
"I had a sweet -heart,
Years, years a -go;
Where she is now pet,
You will soon know.
List to the sto -ry,
I'll tell it all,
I be -lieved her faith -less
Af -ter the ball.
 
Chorus:
Af -ter the ball is o -ver,
Af -ter the break of morn
Af -ter the dan -cer's leav -ing;
Af -ter the stars are gone;
Ma -ny a heart is ach -ing,
If you could read them all;
Ma -ny the hopes that have van -ished
Af -ter the ball.
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Arranged by Jim Bottorff
 
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