This song is mentioned in KELLIGREW'S SOIREE.

From The Library of Congress American Memory Collection -

CLARA NOLAN'S BALL
J. F. Mitchell, 1885

1. You're all invited and the band engaged and we're going to have some fun,
For Clara Nolan gives a ball; this day she's twenty-one.
We've borrowed knives and tablecloths from all about the town,
And ev'ry man must bring a chair if he wants to sit down.

CHORUS: Will you come? Will you come?
And you never will forget it if you come,
Where the bells are ringing and the girls are singing
And the fiddles and the harp go rum, tum, tum,
With teasing and pleasing and squeezing free for all,
And courting in the corners at Miss Clara Nolan's ball.

2. Old Casey's coming with his Irish pipes, and fiddler Neary too.
They'll play you the Maria Waltz and likewise Peekaboo.
Of course, it's not the Hoffman House; just walk inside the door.
If there's no place to hang your hats, just hang them on the floor.

3. The dance commences when the clock strikes ten, and we'll keep it up till day.
There will be no collection the expenses to defray.
We've bourbon, rye and lager beer, and Philadelphia ale,
And if the keg gets empty, we'll go out and fill the pail.