Key: A major
Verse 1
G
D
G
A little maiden climbed
Am
D
an old man's knee
F#dim
D
Begged for a story to Uncle
G
Please
G
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B
Em
Why live alone?
C
C#dim
A
G
Have you no ba bies?
A
D
G
Have you no mom?
Em
B
I had a sweetheart years,
C
G
D
G
ago
C
C#dim
G
Where she is now, pet,
A
C#dim
A
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D
you will soon know
G
C
Listen to my story,
G
F#dim
B
Em
I'll tell it all
C
C#dim
A
I believed her faithless
G
A
D
G
after the ball
After the ball is over,
D
G
After the stars are gone,
Many a heart is aching,
E
A
If you could read them all,
D
G
Merely the hopes that have vanished
A
D
G
D
G
C#dim
G
D
G
af ter the dawn
Bright lights were flashing
Em
G
D
in the grand ballroom
D
G
in sweet tunes
There came my sweetheart,
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B
Em
my love, my own
C
C#dim
A
G
I wish some wa ter,
A
D
G
leave me alone
Em
B
When I've returned, dear,
C
D
G
there stood a man
C
C#dim
G
Kissing my sweetheart
A
C#dim
A
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D
as lov ers can
G
B
Em
He was her brother, she tried to explain
C
C#dim
A
G
I would not listen,
A
D
G
pleading to her fame
D
G
D
G
True to my lost love, now she is dead
That's why I'm lonely,
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B
Em
C
no home at all
Em
C
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G
I broke her heart,
A
D
G
pet, after the ball
After the ball is over,
G
Ddim
After the dancers leaving,
D
G
after the stars are gone
Many a heart is aching,
E
A
if you could read them all
G
A
D
G
Many the hopes that are furnished,
A
D
G
D
D
G
after the ball
C#dim
C
D
G
Af ter the ball
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