1. 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 sweet-heart, 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
2. Bright lights were flashing in the grand ballroom,
Softly the music, playing sweet tunes
There came my sweet-heart, my love, my own
" I wish some water; leave me alone"
When I returned dear there stood a man,
Kissing my sweet-heart as lovers can
Down fell the glass pet, broken, that's all,
Just as my heart was after the ball,
3. Long years have passed child, I've never wed,
True to my lost love, though she is dead
She tried to tell me, tried to explain;
I would not listen, pleadings were vain,
One day a letter came from that man,
He was her brother the letter ran
That's why I'm lonely, no home at all;
I broke her heart pet, 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