After The Ball (chromatic) Harmonica Tabs

AFTER THE BALL
By: Charles K. Harris
Mary Black
Key: G
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A lit-tle maid-en climbed an old man’s knee;
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Begged for a sto-ry, “Do, Un-cle, please.
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Why are you sin-gle, why live a-lone
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Have you no ba-bies, have you no home?”
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“I had a sweet-heart years, years a-go.
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Where she is now, pet, you will soon know.
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List to the sto-ry I’ll tell it all.
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I be-lieved her faith-less, af-ter the ball.

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Af-ter the ball is o-ver,
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af-ter the break of morn.
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Af-ter the dan-cers leav-ing;
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af-ter the stars are gone,
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Man-y a heart is ach-ing,
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if you could read them all.
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Man-y the hopes that have van-ished,
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af-ter the ball