Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies

Subject: After The Ball (was over)
From:
Date: 11 Oct 99 - 05:54 PM

After the ball was over, She took out her glass eye. Stood her cork leg in the corner, Hung up her hair to dry. Put her false teeth in the basin, Turned out the light in the hall; The rest of her went off to slumber After the ball.

(This is the version my father, George Gordon, used to sing in the 50's)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Oct 99 - 06:06 PM

Ah, my father used to sing the same one. Thanks for the memories!

katlaughing

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 11 Oct 99 - 06:20 PM

A popular theme. Try a search for #651 in DigiTrad for some variants.

Subject: RE: old movie tunes
From: The Walrus
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 08:29 PM

After the Ball was over
There on the sofa she lie,
She put her false teeth in salt water
She took out her lovely glass eye
Her cork leg she kicked in the corner
She hung up her wig on the wall
Ther rest of her went to sleep then,
After the ball.

Okay, so maybe that's not the version you wanted...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: After the Ball -&- Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Jun 08 - 08:14 AM

"After the Ball" was written about a true experience , sort of -- and the location was the ballroom above the Turners' Hall in Milwaukee. The ballroom was restored sometime within the past 10 years and I got the story from an article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal.

It's also said he overheard a lovers' quarrel at a dance in Chicago and thought up the line "many a heart is breaking after the ball", liked it and used it when he wrote the song. He was living in Milwaukee and probably attended dances at the Turners' Hall, too.

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: After the Ball -&- Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
From: GUEST,nancy
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 03:16 PM

here is what my mother used to sing:

after the ball was over
katie took out her glass eye,
put her peg leg in the corner,
hung out her hair to dry,
put her false teeth on the table,
hung her tin ear on the wall.
now what was left of poor katie
after the ball?


wrong one, huh?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: After the Ball -&- Hi-Lili Hi-Lo
From: GUEST,iancarterb
Date: 19 Nov 08 - 11:48 PM

I heard an even more revolting version 50ish years ago-
put her cork leg in the corner,
Coughed up her bottle of rye.
   the rest essentially the same.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Nov 08 - 05:00 AM

I have the ame storyline to After The Ball , Side by Side and Among my Souvenirs . Any other melodies ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,guest sally
Date: 25 Mar 09 - 04:53 PM

The version we've heard goes...

After the ball was over,
she lay on the sofa and sighed
she put her false teeth in water
and took out her lovely glass eye
she kicked her cork leg in the corner
hung up her wig on the wall
and the rest of her went to bye byes,
after the ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Uke
Date: 26 Mar 09 - 04:52 PM

A second verse from 1960s New Zealand students, that follows approxiamately the same as above:

Her head when she wakes in the morning,
Will not have an ache nor a pain.
It also fell off her torso -
This semi-detachable Jane.
"I no longer am what I was, dear,
what I have left is my all.
Treat it with all due respect, dear -
After the ball."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: John P
Date: 27 Mar 09 - 12:21 PM

My mom used to sing:

After the ball was over,
Mabel took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in a tumbler,
Pulled out a bottle of rye,
Put her false teeth on the table,
Hung her wig on the wall,
After the ball was over,
There's nothing left of Mabel at all.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: oldhippie
Date: 17 May 09 - 07:59 PM

Any more to this parody?

After the war is over
After Hitler's hung
We will go on picnics
Gee, we'll have some fun.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Barbara
Date: 18 May 09 - 12:27 PM

After the ball was over
Mary took out her glass eye
Stood her peg leg in the corner
Washed off the paint and the dye
Put her false teeth in some water
Hung up her hair on the wall,
That's all that was left of poor Mary, they say,
After the ball.

My mother's version from maybe 50, 60 years back.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 18 May 09 - 03:38 PM

The theme is at least 17th century, probably older. I'm getting deja vu here. I'm sure there has already been a thread on these spare-part songs.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 18 May 09 - 06:58 PM

A different song, but right out of the same "playbook" of mischieviously altered material - a parody of "Silver Threads Among the Gold," another hoary oldie from the turn of the last century.

"At the boarding house where we live,
Everything is growing old.
Silver threads are in the butter,
All the bread has turned to mold.

When the dog died, we hat hot dogs,
When the cat died, catnip tea.
When the landlord died, I left there;
Spareribs were too much for me..."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Barbara
Date: 18 May 09 - 07:52 PM

Steve I think you're right. One of the pleasures (?) of getting older is that one doesn't realize one is repeating oneself.
Also I can reread books and they're just like I've never read them before.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: Lyr Add: AFTER THE STRIKE (Joseph A. Hemer)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 18 May 09 - 08:50 PM

for those too proud to look things up in Digitrad, there's:


Once a pretty maiden climbed an old man's knee
Asked for a story-"Papa tell me,
Why are you lonely, why are you sad,
Why do your shopmates call you a scab?"
I had friends, pet, long, long ye-ars ago,
How I lost them you soon shall know;
I'll tell it all, pet, tell all my shame;
I was a scab, pet, I was to blame."

cho: After the strike is over,
After the men have won,
After the shops have opened,
After the notice is down;
Many the heart is aching,
Though the hope seems bright
That many a scab will vanish
After the strike.

Brave men were fighting, standing side by side,
Fighting for justice, fighting with pride,
I then was with them---with them heart and soul,
But when the test came, I left them in the cold,
I thought it best, pet, best to turn a scab;
Best to return, pet, to the job I had,
That's why I'm lonely, that's why I'm sad,
That's why my shopmates call me a scab.

cho:

Many years have passed, pet, since I won that name,
And in song and story they have told my shame,
I have tried to tell them, tried to explain,
But they will not listen, pleading is in vain;
Everywhere I wander, everywhere I roam,
The story of my shame is sure to find my home,
I'd give my life, pet, I'd give my all,
If I had not turned traitor, or scabbed at all.

cho:

From American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century, Foner
@parody @union @strike
Note: published in the United Mine Workers' Journal, May 24, 1894
filename[ AFTRSTRK
TUNE FILE: AFTRBALL
CLICK TO PLAY
RG

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Artful Codger
Date: 18 May 09 - 11:35 PM

D.J. O'Malley (under the name D.J. White) wrote the cowboy song "After the Roundup" (aka "When the Works All Done This Fall", 1893) to the tune of "After the Ball". Lyrics have already been posed in other threads. Nowadays, people usually sing it to other, less arty tunes.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,secaii
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 11:12 AM

After the ball was over,
Sally took out her glass eye...
Put her false teeth in some water,
and hung her complexion to dry!

Put her cork leg in the corner,
Hung her wig on the wall...
And that was all of poor Sally,
After the ball!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: semi-submersible
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 03:21 PM

The "revolting" line above, "Coughed up her bottle of rye" sounds suspiciously close to the bit my mother sang me about "Corked up her bottle of dye." Oral transmission/folk process, I guess.

After the ball was over
Maggie took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in some water,
Corked up her bottle of dye,
Stood her false leg in a corner,
Hung up her wig on the wall;
Then what was left went to slumber
After the ball.

(Could've been "all the rest" instead of "what was left." I'm not sure.)

I like Barbara's mother's version best in this thread.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: trischief
Date: 25 Dec 09 - 07:55 PM

The only thing I would add to this discussion is a variation substituting the word "switch" in the line "hung her wig up on the wall". My grandmother sang this parody to me. She was from rural central Illinois, born in 1883.


m

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Lori Spring
Date: 28 May 10 - 02:06 PM

This is a slightly different version I learned as a kid in the 1940's

After the ball was over
Mary took out her glass eye
Put her false teeth in some water
Hung up her hair to dry

Put her wooden leg in the corner
Hung her tin ear on the wall
What was left went to slumber
After the ball

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Pete
Date: 28 May 10 - 03:11 PM

These are all fairly similar so I may as well post the version I learned from my mother and passed on to my two daughters. Real oral tradition or what?

After the ball was over, Maggie took ouy her glass eye,
put her false leg in the corner, corked up her bottle of dye.
Rinsed out her teeth in the basin, hung up her hair on the wall,
and all that was left went to bye-byes, after the ball

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Jun 10 - 02:55 PM

After the ball was over,
Nellie took out her glass eye
Put her false teeth on the bureau
Hung up her wig to dry

Put her peg leg in the corner
Hung up her crutch on the wall
There wasn't much left of poor Nellie
After the ball

That's how my Dad used to sing it to us.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,mrszzano
Date: 01 Aug 10 - 11:58 PM

I might as well add my mom's version, from the 50's.

After the ball was over,
Mamie took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in water,
Hung up her wig to dry,

Stood her peg leg in the corner,
Hung her tin ear on the wall.
And all that was left was her shadow
After the ball.

There you go, Mom, now you're out in cyberspace!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 10 - 11:27 PM

Oh so funny! I just heard this in a movie we watched last week, which made me remember and wonder where this came from.

Here's how MY Mom sang it:

After the ball was over Katie took out her glass eye,
Put her peg leg in the corner,
Corked up her bottle of dye,

I don't remember the rest - I'll have to check in with my siblings!

Thanks for all these postings and variations - they made me laugh!

Marcie

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Oct 10 - 05:48 PM

um... I'm related to the man who wrote this. it goes...
after the ball was over she took out her glass eye
stood her cork leg in the corner, opened a bottle of dye
put her faulse teeth in the basin
hung up her hair on the wall
and what was left of her went to bed
after the ball.

I wish I could find out more about my Great Great Grand Father.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 27 Nov 10 - 09:21 AM

My dad use to sing it to me in the 1950's with a change in the last line that I haven't read yet -

After the ball was over, Mary took out her glass eye
Put her false teeth in water, hung up her wig to dry
Stood her peg leg in the corner
Hung her tin ear on the wall
After the ball was over
There was no Mary at all!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Jan 11 - 12:16 PM

I grew up with the same tune with slight variations:

After the ball was over
Mary took out her glass eye.
Put her false teeth in water,
Hung up her hair to dry.

Threw her cork leg in the corner,
Hung her wax ear on the wall.
That's why you'd never know Mary,
After the ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 04 May 11 - 08:05 PM

Many nights after skiing all day and sitting around firesides entertaining guests 60's.

After the ball was over
Nellie took out her glass eye.
Put her false teeth in a tumbler.
Hung up her dyed wig to dry.

She put her false leg in a corner
Placed her tin ear by her bed
After the ball was over
Nellie was better off dead.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 05 May 11 - 02:44 AM

From 1950s Liverpool
Fill in the names of players as required.
After the game had started, after the whistle blew,
**** got excited, and down the field he flew,
He passed the ball to ****, **** scored a goal,
He left the poor old goalie sitting on his hole.

Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,clare
Date: 06 May 11 - 01:25 PM

My dad sang it this way, I thought he had made this up himself, alas I was wrong.

After the ball is over
See her take out her glass eye
Put all her teeth in a basin
Lock up her bottle of dye

Stand her cork leg in the corner
Hang up her wig on the wall
All that is left goes to bye bye
After the ball

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: threelegsoman
Date: 07 May 11 - 12:51 PM

Most of the parodies are variations of the same theme, and it is a similar variation I uploaded to YouTube along with the original song.

Original song: After The Ball Is Over; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZzozzzavS0

Parody: After The Ball (Dismantled Bride; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u57ZS_2e7ns

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After The Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 13 May 11 - 05:30 PM

Has anybody got a version with Charlie Tully The Celtic player

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,princetompax
Date: 05 Sep 11 - 09:42 PM

I remember my father singing:

"After the ball was over
Freddie took me for a walk
Took me behind the bushes
and told me not to talk"

Sadly, he never got further than that, but there is obviously more. Can anyone supply the remainder, please?

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Nov 11 - 07:27 AM

did paul mcartney write this

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Apr 12 - 06:35 PM

My old headmaster at primary school was a part time jazz musician who used to get us all together on a Friday afternoon to sing songs from the music hall days etc. The version he taught us( in 1977 ish) was this:
After the ball was over, she took out her glass eye.
Put her false teeth in water, shook from her hair the dye.
Kicked her cork leg in the corner, stripped off her false nails and all.
Then what was left went to bye-byes after the ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Gill
Date: 30 May 12 - 05:37 PM

This is the real version, and I know this because my Nanna born in 1893 sang it to me 100s of times throughout my childhood. Nanna came from a large very poor family and only affordable entertainment was the local Eastbourne Music Hall, admission a penny I think she said. I'm certain this is closer to the original because it has more alliteration.

After the ball is over
See Nellie take out her glass eye
Put her false teeth in water
Cork up her bottle of dye
Kick her cork leg in the corner
Hang up her wig on the wall
All that is left goes to bye-byes
After the ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Murray on Saltspring
Date: 31 May 12 - 02:53 PM

Princetompax 5th Sept - I heard this from a fellow pupil (girl) at Bell-Baxter Secondary (Cupar Fife) around 1947. Thus:

After the ball was over
Johnny took me for a walk,
He took me behind some bushes
And said let's have a talk;
He pulled oput a hairy monster
And put it between my thighs,
I said oh no John don't
Or you'll make my belly rise.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Sep 12 - 01:33 PM

The variation my mother sang ended with "put the rest under the covers, after the ball."

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,charlie
Date: 28 Jun 13 - 12:46 PM

Well I have yet another, albeit similar version.

After the ball was over she took out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in the water, shook out of her hair the dye
Kicked false leg in the corner, picked off her false nails, and all
then waht was left went to bye byes - after the ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Joanie DS
Date: 13 Aug 13 - 11:51 AM

I remember this from my dim and distant childhood - at 10 years old, we thought it hilarious!
After the ball was over
Sally took out her glass eye
Laid her peg leg in the corner
Put on a dab of hair dye
Put her false teeth in cold water
Hung her wig on the wall
All that was left went to bye byes
After the ball

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 04:16 PM

After the ball was over, see her take out her glass eye,
Put her false teeth in water, wash off her paint and dye,
Rest her false leg in the corner, hang up her wig on the wall,
All that was left went to by bys,
After the ball.

My Grandmas version, 1904-1981

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 18 Aug 13 - 05:29 PM

Liverpool version following an incident at a 'Pool match when a player continued to play after the final whistle
Would rather visit North Wales on a wet Sunday than watch a football match, so I can't remember the players names - will insert the names of a couple I do remember

After the Ball was over, after the whistle blew,
Brierly got excited and down the pitch he flew,
He passed the ball to Liddell, Liddell scored a goal
He left the poor old goalie lying on his hole

Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,king kong
Date: 11 Jan 14 - 08:48 AM

after the ball was over
mary took off her glass eye
put her false teeth in water,
hung up her hair to dry...
leaned her peg leg in the corner,
hung her wax ear on the wall...
there wasn't much left of mary--
after the ball!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,rettadee
Date: 24 Feb 14 - 08:24 PM

my dad sang this to me when I was very small but did not forget lyrics
After the ball was over
Mary took out her glass eye
Put her false teeth on the table
Hung up her wig to dry
Stood her peg leg in the corner
Stuck her wax ear on the wall
There wasn't much left of Mary
After the ball!!!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Edgar's version( I think)
Date: 11 Jul 14 - 04:17 PM

After the ball was over
After the break of day
She put her false teeth in cold water
She put he glass eye away
Stood her wooden leg in the corner
Hung her false hair on the wall
All that was left went ta ta
After the ball

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST,Bonnie Black
Date: 25 Jul 14 - 04:25 PM

The day of the ball was coming.
Katie got out her hair dye,
Took her wax ear from the cupboard,
Uncorked her bottle of rye,
Got her false teeth from the water,
Chased down the dog for her shoe.
If only she can keep her wits about her
And find that damned pot of glue.

After the ball was over,
Katie took out her glass eye,
Put her peg leg in the corner,
Hung up her wig to dry,
Put her false teeth in some water,
Hung her wax ear on the wall.
No, there wasn't much left of poor Katie
after the ball.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jul 14 - 03:22 PM

Reminds me of the very unfortunate, very unfortunate, very unfortunate man.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: After the Ball (was over)-parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Nov 14 - 02:30 AM

My dad's version:

After the ball was over,
She took out her glass eye,
Stood her false leg in the corner,
Corked up her bottle of dye,
Put her false teeth in water,
Hung up her c@nt on the wall,
Then what was left went to bye byes,
After the ball