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Big Mick ADD: Charladies' Ball (30) Lyr Add: THE CHARLADIES' BALL (O'Donovan/Brennan) 11 Sep 99


Here you go.

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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