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John M. Lyr Req: Sweet Violets (53* d) RE: Looking for different "Sweet Violets" song. 26 Sep 04

Sweet Violets is most noted as a hit of September 1958 where it spent 8 weeks at the top of the hit parade...if I remember correctly. This 1958 hit is remembered as being sung by Doris Day but others sung the same song (see below). This 1958 song was actually a cleaned up version of a bawdy song called "There once was a farmer who sat on a rock...". The "Sweet Violets" chorus was used to bread up the otherwise incessant rhymes of the song.

If you are looking for variants on the song "Sweet Violets", I have most of the commercial recordings below including bawdy versions.

Sincerely,

John Mehlberg
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My, mostly tradtional, bawdy songs, toasts and recitations website: www.immortalia.com

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