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From: hoosiers@u.washington.edu (Mary Loveless)
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Subject: Re: Song "Sweet Violets"
Date: 9 Apr 1996 23:26:23 GMT
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In article <DpLw0v.B1x@world.std.com>,
Joseph C Fineman <jcf@world.std.com>wrote:
>oksteve@ix.netcom.com(Stephen ) writes:
>
>>Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
>
My older sisters taught this to me in the '50s.  I think it was a 
top-forties hit, printed on sheet music.  

Oh, there once was a farmer who took a young miss
In back of the barn where he gave her a lecture 
on chickens and eggs
And told her that she had such beautiful manners
And ???? ??? ??? a girl of such charms
A girl that he wanted to take in his washing and ironing
And then if she did
They would get married and raise lots of

SWEET VIOLETS, sweeter than all the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with SWEET VIOLETS

The girl told the farmer that he'd better stop
And she called her father and he called a taxi 
And got there before very long
For someone was doing his little girl right, 
For a change, and so that's why he said
"If you marry her son, you're better off single,
For 'tis my belief that all a man gets out of marriage is

SWEET VIOLETS, sweeter than all the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with SWEET VIOLETS

The farmer decided he'd wed anyway
And started in planning for his wedding suit,
Which he purchased for only one buck,
And then he found that he was just out of money
And Left in the lurch, standing and waiting 
At the front of the story, so it just goes to show
That all a girl wants from her man is his

SWEET VIOLETS, sweeter than all the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with SWEET VIOLETS




-- 
Mary Loveless, Secretary Senior
Department of Psychosocial 
  and Community Health, 5-0839, 357263
School of Nursing, University of Washington