Key: Ab major
Verse 1
G
D
G
A little maiden climbed
Why are you single?
B
Em
Why leave alone?
C
G
Have you no ba bies?
Em
D
G
Have you no home?
Em
B
I had a sweetheart
C
D
G
Years, years ago
C
G
Where she's now penned
A
D
You will soon know
G
B
Em
List to the story I'll tell it all,
C
D
I believed her faith
G
A
D
G
less af ter the ball.
After the ball is over,
after the dance is leaving,
Many a heart is aching,
Em
E
A
if you could read them all.
D
G
Many the hopes that have vanished
A
D
G
D
G
A
D
after the ball.
There came my sweetheart,
B
Em
my love, my own.
C
D
G
I wish some water,
A
D
G
leave me alone.
Em
B
When I returned, dear,
C
D
G
there stood a man
C
C
Kissing my
G
A
D
sweetheart as lovers can.
B
Em
broken that's all.
C
D
G
Just as my heart was
A
D
G
af ter the ball.
After the ball is over.
After the break of morn.
Many a heart is aching,
Em
E
A
if you could read them all,
D
G
Many the hopes that have vanished
A
D
G
D
G
A
D
G
after the ball.
G
Em
A
D
child, I've never wed.
True to my lost love,
Em
G
B
Em
She tried to tell me, tried to ex plain.
C
G
I would not listen,
D
G
pleadings were vain.
Em
B
One day, a letter came
C
D
G
from that man,
C
D
he was her brother,
G
Em
A
D
the letter ran.
G
Em
G
B
Em
That's why I'm lonely, no home at all,
C
G
A
I broke her heart, Ben,
D
G
after the ball.
After the ball is over,
D
G
after the stars are gone,
C
G
Many a heart is aching,
Em
E
A
if you could read them all,
D
G
Many the hopes that have vanished
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