After The Ball chords

[CHORUS]
[G]After the [C]ball is over, after the break of d[D]awn,
After the dancers' leaviing, after the stars are [G]gone;
Many a h[C]eart is a[G]ching, [E]if you could read them a[A]ll;
[D]Many the hopes that have v[G]anished a[A]fte[D]r the [G]ball.

[VERSE 1]
[G]A little maiden climbed an old man's [D7]knee,
Begged for a story, "Do Uncle, [G]please.
Why are you single; why [Dm]live alo[Em]ne?
[C]Have you no [G]babies; [A]have [D]you no [G]home?"
[Em]"I had a s[B]weetheart y[C]ears, years a[G]go;
[C]Where she is [G]now, pet, [A]you will soon [D]know.
[G]List to the story, I'll [B]tell it a[Em]ll,
[C]I believed her [G]faithless a[A]ft[D]er the [G]ball."

[CHORUS]
[G]After the [C]ball is over, after the break of d[D]awn,
After the dancers' leaviing, after the stars are [G]gone;
Many a h[C]eart is a[G]ching, [E]if you could read them a[A]ll;
[D]Many the hopes that have v[G]anished a[A]fte[D]r the [G]ball.

[VERSE 2]
[G]Bright lights were flashing in the grand ball[D7]room,
Softly the music, playing sweet t[G]unes.
There came my sweetheart, my l[Dm]ove, my [Em]own;
[C]"I wish some [G]water, l[A]eave [D]me alon[G]e."
[Em]When I ret[B]urned, dear, t[C]here stood a [G]man,
[C]Kissing my sw[G]eetheart, [A]as lovers c[D]an;
[G]Down fell the glass, pet, brok[B]en, that's [Em]all;
[C]Just as my h[G]eart was a[A]ft[D]er the [G]ball

[CHORUS]
[G]After the [C]ball is over, after the break of d[D]awn,
After the dancers' leaviing, after the stars are [G]gone;
Many a h[C]eart is a[G]ching, [E]if you could read them a[A]ll;
[D]Many the hopes that have v[G]anished a[A]fte[D]r the [G]ball.

[VERSE 3]
[G]Long years have passed, child, I've never w[D7]ed;
True to my lost love, though she is d[G]ead.
She tried to tell me, tried [Dm]to expla[Em]in;
[C]I would not l[G]isten, p[A]leadi[D]ngs were v[G]ain.
[Em]One day a [B]letter c[C]ame from that [G]man
[C]He was her b[G]rother, t[A]he letter r[D]an.
[G]That's why I'm lonely, no [B]home at [Em]all;
[C]I broke her [G]heart, pet, a[A]ft[D]er the [G]ball

[CHORUS]
[G]After the [C]ball is over, after the break of d[D]awn,
After the dancers' leaviing, after the stars are [G]gone;
Many a h[C]eart is a[G]ching, [E]if you could read them a[A]ll;
[D]Many the hopes that have v[G]anished a[A]fte[D]r the [G]ball.