The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #585   Message #1663
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27-Jan-97 - 07:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/ADD: I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard
Subject: RE: I don't want to play in your yard...
Thank you so much, Ralph Butts. My mother used to sing this song to me and I have tried for some time to remember the second verse so I could sing it to my grandbabies. I'm going to try to find the album that you reference. After the Ball is another song my mother sang, and I don't remember the words to that one either. It started,

A little girl, climbed an old man's knee,
Tell me a story, please uncle please,
Why are you single, why live alone,
Have you no sweetheart, have you no home?

I had a sweetheart, long long ago,
Where she is now pet,
You will soon know...

Then it goes on,

After the ball is over, after the break of day,
Many a heart is broken...

End of memory! Do you happen to know this one as well?