Sweet Violets

Описание: Lew Dite with his banjo uke
A song my father taught me to love
Dinah Shore 1951 hit

Sweet Violets by Cy Coben and Charles Grean

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There once was a farmer who took a young miss
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in back of the barn where he gave her a lecture
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on horses and chickens and eggs
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and told her that she had such beautiful manners
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that suited a girl of her charms
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a girl that he wanted to take in his washing
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and ironing and then if she did

they would get married and raise lots of...
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Sweet vi--o--lets sweeter than all the roses

Covered all over from head to toe
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Covered all over with sweet vi-o-lets


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 some-one 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
'cause it's always been my belief
Marriage will bring a man nothing but...

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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...

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