lyrics a certain someone requested...

there was a young farmer who took a young miss
in back of a barn where he gave her a...

lecture on horses and chickens and eggs
and told her she had the most 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 have lots of...

(chorus)
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 that got there before very long
'cuz someone was doin' his little girl...

right for a change, and as he left he said,
"son, marry her, and you're better off...

single 'cuz it's always been my belief
that marriage will bring a man nothing but...

(chorus)
sweet violets! sweeter than all the roses!
covered all over from head to toe
covered all over with sweet violets!"