Lyr Req: Sweet Violets

Subject: Sweet Violets lyrics
From:
Date: 12 Dec 96 - 05:12 PM

While I was growing up, my father sang a version of the song titled SWEET VIOLETS. He couldn't remember the last verses however.

I have found one version here in the database however it isn't the version he sang. I was wondering if anyone knows or knows where to find the version that starts..

THERE ONCE WAS A FARMER WHO TOOK A YOUNG MISS 'ROUND HIND THE BARN WHERE HE GAVE HER A ...

LECTURE ON HORSES AND CHICKENS AND EGGS AND TOLD HER THAT SHE HAD SUCH BEAUTIFUL ...

MANNERS SO FITTING A GIRL OF HER CHARMS A GIRL THAT HE'D LIKE TO TAKE IN HIS...

IRONNING AND WASHING ... etc...

If you can help, please send me an email. Steve Hyatt [e-mail]

Subject: Lyr Add: SWEET VIOLETS
From:
Date: 12 Dec 96 - 06:05 PM

There once was a farmer who took a young miss
In back of the barn where he gave her a—
Lecture on horses and chickens and eggs,
And told her that she had such beautiful—
Manners, that suited a girl of her charms,
A girl that he wanted to take in his—
Washing and ironing, and then if she did,
They could get married and raise lots of—

Sweet violets, sweeter than 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,
Or she'd call her father and he'd call a—
Taxi and get there before very long,
'Cause someone was doing his little girl—
Right for a change, and here's what he said:
"If you marry her, son, you're better off—
Single, 'cause it's always been my belief,
That marriage will bring a man nothing but—

Sweet violets...etc.

Subject: Lyr Add: SWEET VIOLETS
From: Alex
Date: 13 Dec 96 - 12:48 AM

The SWEET VIOLETS I know are nothing like those above and the version I have of Young Farmer goes:

There was a young farmer who sat on a rick,
Bawling and shouting and waving his
Fist at a lady who sat on the rocks
Teaching young boys how to play with their
Bows and their arrows and weapons of yore
When along came a lady who looked like a
Decent young lady who walked like a duck,
She said she had found out a new way to
Educate the children to sew and to knit,
While the men of the manor were shovelling
Muck from the barnyard and dirt from the byre
Where the lord of the manor was pulling his
Horse from the stable to go on the hunt
While the lady of the manor was powdering her
Face - what did you think I was going to say?
I'll sing it another day.

Kinda like THE CLEAN SONG by Oscar Brand - I'll see if I can find SWEET VIOLETS

Subject: RE: Sweet Violets lyrics
From:
Date: 13 Dec 96 - 03:10 PM

Yes! The version from [e-mail] is the version I remember. Dad always said there were other lyrics that went after. Does anyone know of those lyrics?

Thanks for the help, especially alarose

Steve Hyatt [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Sweet Violets lyrics
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 14 Dec 96 - 09:42 AM

Hi- The song falls into the category of what Ed Cray calls "teasers." THe version from Alarose was a pop song of the 1950's; Alex's somewhat raunchier one is older (I heard it in the early 1940's).

To the best of my knowledge, Alarose's version is complete as recorded. You can see variations on the theme in some versions of Lulu, Shine Your Buttons With Brasso, and several others.

Subject: RE: Sweet Violets lyrics
From:
Date: 05 Jan 97 - 12:31 AM

Steve, I do Alarose's version with another verse at the end.

The Farmer decided to wed anyway, and started in planning for his wedding suit, which he purchased for only a buck, then he found out he was just out of money, and so he got left in the lurch, standing and waiting in front of the end of this story, which just goes to show, that all a girl wants from a man is his Sweet Violets....

The Cowboy Minstel, Steamboat Colorado.

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