Sweet Violets (Album Version)

Sweet violets

Sweeter than all 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

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

'Cause someone was doin' his little girl

Right for a change and so that's why he said

"If you marry her son, you're better off single"

'Cause it's always been my belief

Marriage will bring a man nothing but

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

Standin' and waitin' in front of the

End of the story which just goes to show

All a girl wants from a man is his

Sweet violets

Sweeter than all the roses

Covered all over from head to toe

Covered all over with sweet violets