After the Ball song is a classic waltz and a popular song that scouts sing.
After the Ball song is a the story of an older man telling to his niece why he never married. He caught his sweetheart kissing another man at a ball, and refused to listed to her explanation. Many years later, after his sweetheart had died, he discovered that the man was her brother.
Before playing After the Ball song, gather the students in a circle and read the lyrics to the class.
Then, play After the Ball song.
Just print the lyrics to the children’s song, play the MP3 download, and read and sing along to After the Ball song.
Lyrics
After The Ball Song
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
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
“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 ball
