A California Ball
Air: Wait For The Wagon 
Put's Golden Songster:
containing the largest and most popular collection of California songs ever published
by John A Stone
San Francisco : D.E. Appleton & Co., 1858
'Twould make our eastern people cave
To see the great and small,
The old, with one foot in the grave,
All "splurging" at a ball.
CHORUS:
Wait for the music!
Wait for the music!
Wait for the music,
And we'll all have a dance!
On foot they through the diggings wind,
And over mountains tall,
With young ones tagging on behind,
"Flat-footed" for the ball!
CHORUS
A dozen babies on the bed,
And all begin to squall;
The mothers wish the brats were dead,
For crying at the ball!
CHORUS
The manager begins to curse,
And swaggers through the haLl,
For mothers they've gone out to nurse
Their babies at the ball!
CHORUS
Old women in their Bloomer rigs
Are fond of "balance all!"
And "weighty" when it comes to jigs,
And so on, at the ball!
CHORUS
A yearling miss fills out the sett,
Although not very tall;
"I'm anxious now," she says, "you bet,
To proceed with the ball !"
CHORUS
A married woman gentle dove
With nary tooth at all,
Sits in the corner making love
To some "pimp" at the ball!
CHORUS
A drunken loafer at the dance
Informs them one and all,
With bowie knife stuck in his pants,
"The best man at the ball!"
CHORUS
The Spanish hags of ill repute
For brandy loudly call,
And no one dares their right dispute
To freedom at the ball!
CHORUS
The gambler all the money wins,
To bed the drunkest crawl;
And fighting then of course begins
With rowdies at the ball!
CHORUS
They rush it like a rail-road car;
And often is the call
Of, "Promenade up to the bar,"
For whisky at the ball!
CHORUS
"Old Alky" makes their bowels yearn,
They stagger round and fall;
And ladies say when they return,
"Oh, what a splendid ball !"
CHORUS
Score from the Library Of Congress
Score from the Lester S Levy Collection
MIDI file of "Wait For The Wagon" (Used by permission of B. R. Tubb from his website at Public Domain Music.)