Key: Eb major
Verse 1
G
D
B
Em
A
D
A
Asus4
D
A
Bm
D
A
little maiden climbed an old man's knee
Em
Ebaug
Em
Begged for a story
A
Em
A
D
Em
Do uncle please
A
D
Bm
Why are you single?
B
F#m
B
Why live alone?
Em
G
D
Have you no babies?
B
Fdim
A
D
Have you no home?
Bm
F#
G
A
I had a sweetheart years, years ago
D
G
C#
D
Where she is now,
Bm
D
E
Em
A
that you will soon know
D
B
Em
List to the story, I'll tell it all
G
D
B
I be lieved her faithless af
E
Em
A
D
A
Asus4
ter the ball
A
D
A
D
After the ball is over,
A
Em
after the break of morn
A
Em
B
Em
After the dancers leaving,
Bb
A
F#m
D
Em
af ter the stars are gone
D
G
D
Many a heart is aching,
B
E
if you could read them all
A
D
Bm
Many the hopes that have vanished
C
Em
A
D
Bm
G
D
Em
A
af ter the boy.
A
F#m
D
A
child, I've never wept
Em
A
True to my lost love,
Em
A
D
Em
though she is dead
A
D
She tried to tell me,
B
Cm
B
tried to explain
Em
G
D
I would not listen,
B
E
A
D
pleadings were vain
F#
Bm
F#
G
A
D
One day a letter came from that man
G
C#
D
He was her brother,
Bm
D
Em
D
A
Em
A
the let ter read
D
A
F#m
D
That's why I'm lonely,
A
D
B
Em
no home at all
G
D
B
I broke her heart, pet,
E
Em
A
D
A
after the ball
D
A
Asus4
D
A
After the ball is over,
D
Fdim
A
after the break of moon,
Em
B
Em
after the dancers leave me,
A
F#m
D
Em
after the
A
D
Bm
G
D
A
Em
Many a heart is aching,
B
F#m
B
E
if you could read them all.
D
Bm
D
G
vanished
A
D
G
Em
After the ball
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