Yeah, Don, refrains and choruses can be saved for the last verse or thrown in after every other verse, etc., to keep a song from going into extra innings.

As an example of an omitted verse being "accepted," I first learned the song "Urge For Goin'" from an album by Tom Rush, and I began to sing it that way, starting out with the verse that goes:
"I had a [man] in summer time with summer-colored skin
And not another woman my own darlin's heart could win.
..."*
*(Yeah, I [shudder!] changed the words to sing it from my own, female perspective. Sue me.) ;)

Later on I learned that Joni Mitchell wrote it and recorded it before Tom - starting with a whole other verse:
"When I woke up this morning, the frost lay on the ground.
It hovered in a frozen sky and gobbled summer down ..."

Now when I sing the song in public, I often find some people surprised at hearing the first verse, because I guess a lot of other folks know mainly Tom's version.

Joni's lyrics are such that they tend to make all her verses worth including, yet some of her songs, including this one, can stand on their own just fine with a verse omitted here or there.