Sweet Violets

Heard a perfectly old couple sing this on Sunday. Found it enchanting--mostly the nostagia, really--of seeing an old couple still in love.

They kissed at the end.

It was a good, good, time. Folk songs have that effect--usually.

 

 

(Chorus) Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses,

Covered all over from head to toe,

Covered all over with sweet violets.

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...

(Chorus) 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

And she called her father and he called a....

....Taxi and got there before very long,

'Cause 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 because it has been my belief,

That marriage will bring a man nothing but....

 

(Chorus) Sweet violets, sweeter than 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,

But 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,

All a girl wants from a man is his...

(Chorus) Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses,

Covered all over from head to toe,

Covered all over with sweet violets.

She--the woman--was dressed in a violet dress.

As she sang.

And holding violets.

It was awfully sweet.