Name: After The Ball
Duration: P00H05M16S
Description: Unreleased track that was originally under consideration for inclusion on "It's Not The Coat Makes The Gentleman."

After The Ball

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Unreleased track that was originally under consideration for inclusion on "It's Not The Coat Makes The Gentleman."

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A little maiden climbed an old man's knee,
Begged for a story – "Do, Uncle, please.
Why are you single; why live alone?
Have you no babies; have you no home?"
"I had a sweetheart years, years ago;
Where she is now pet, you will soon know.
List to the story, I'll tell it all,
I believed her faithless after the ball."

After the ball is over,
After the break of morn –
After the dancers' leaving;
After the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching,
If you could read them all;
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.

Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom,
Softly the music playing sweet tunes.
There came my sweetheart, my love, my own –
"I wish some water; leave me alone."
When I returned dear there stood a man,
Kissing my sweetheart as lovers can.
Down fell the glass pet, broken, that's all,
Just as my heart was after the ball.

After the ball is over,
After the break of morn –
After the dancers' leaving;
After the stars are gone;
Many a heart is aching,
If you could read them all;
Many the hopes that have vanished
After the ball.

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released February 20, 2018
Written by: Charles K. Harris
Performed by: Parlormuse

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Parlormuse Willoughby, Ohio

Travel back in time to the Gilded Age for a nostalgic journey through the popular music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Parlormuse rekindles the faded embers of the Victorian era while bringing its own modern rock and pop stylings to the traditions of yesteryear. ... more

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