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The Charladies Ball
You may talk of you outing, your picnics and parties, You dinners, your dances, and hoolies and all But wait 'till I tell you of the gas that we had, On the night that we danced at the Charladies Ball.
I went there as Queen Anne and I went with me man He was dressed as a monkey locked up in a cage There was pirates and pirots and hottentots and whatnots And stars you might see on the music hall stage
CHORUS: At the charladies ball, people said one and all, You're the belle of the ball, Mrs. Mulligan We had one steps and two steps and the devil knows what new steps we swore that we never would be done again, bedad We had wine, Porter and Jamesons, We had cocktails and cocoa and all We had champagne that night but we'd real pain next morning The night that we danced at the Charladies Ball
There was cowboys and Indians,that came from Drumcondra, Sweet Frances street fairies all diamond and stars There was one of the Rooneys as a clock over Mooneys And a telegram boy with a message from Mars Mary Moore from the Lots was the Queen of the Scots With a crown out of Woolworths perched up on her dom There was young Jimmy Whitehouse came dressed as a lighthouse And a Camden St. Garbo that should have stayed home.
CHORUS At the charladies ball, people said one and all, You're the belle of the ball, Mrs. Mulligan We had one steps and two steps and the devil knows what new steps we swore that we never would be done again, bedad We had wine, Porter and Jamesons, We had cocktails and cocoa and all We had rumbas and tagos, half sets and fandangos, the night that we danced at the Charladies Ball
Mary Ellen O'Rourke was the Queen of the dawn, by one thirty she looked like a real dirty night Mickey Farren the bester came dressed as a jester, he burst his balloon and dropped dead at the fright Kevin Barr came as Bovril stops that sinking feeling, Astride of a bottle, pyjamas and all, But he bumped into Faust, who was gloriously soused and the two of them sunk to the end of the hall.
CHORUS: At the charladies ball, people said one and all, You're the belle of the ball, Mrs. Mulligan We had one steps and two steps and the devil knows what new steps we swore that we never would be done again, bedad We had wine, Porter and Jamesons, We had cocktails and cocoa and all We'd a real standup fight, but we fell down to supper, The night that we danced at the Charladies Ball.
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