Song "Sweet Violets"
Stephen
Who recorded it? Could it have been The Weavers?
Steve
Joseph C Fineman
>Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
You mean "Sweet Violets" has an _original version_? %^) I've never
heard anything but bawdy parodies of it.
In the mid 1950s I heard kids sing
In the springtime, in the springtime, in the springtime of yore,
I knew a young lady who was quite a
Beautiful lady; she lay in the grass,
And when she rolled over, she'd show me her
Ruffles & tuffles & sometimes a tuck,
And she promised to show me a new way to
Bring up our daughters & teach them to knit,
While the boys in the horse barn were shoveling
Hay for the horses, which is quite an art,
But, boy, does it smell when the horse lets a
Sweet violet, sweeter than all the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe,
Covered all over with sweet violets.
(A friend & I have written a much better version, but I forbear.)
I suspect that the original is a good deal older.
In Scotland in 1959 a version of "The Wheel" was current that ended
Now we come to the bitter bit:
There was no method of stopping it.
The maid was split from C**T-TO-TIT!
And the whole fucking issue was covered with
Sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe,
Covered all over with SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!
I would be delighted to hear where all this came from.
--
Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
495 Pleasant St., #1 (617) 324-6899
Malden, MA 02148
Mary Loveless
Joseph C Fineman <j...@world.std.com> wrote:
>oks...@ix.netcom.com(Stephen ) writes:
>
>>Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
>
top-forties hit, printed on sheet music.
Oh, there once was a farmer who took a young miss
In back of the barn where he gave her a lecture
on chickens and eggs
And told her that she had such beautiful manners
And ???? ??? ??? a girl of such charms
A girl that he wanted to take in his washing and ironing
And then if she did
They would 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
For 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,
For 'tis my belief that all a man gets out of marriage is
SWEET VIOLETS, sweeter than all 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,
And then he found that he was just out of money
And Left in the lurch, standing and waiting
At the front of the story, so it just goes to show
That all a girl wants from her man is his
SWEET VIOLETS, sweeter than all the roses,
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with SWEET VIOLETS
--
Mary Loveless, Secretary Senior
Department of Psychosocial
and Community Health, 5-0839, 357263
School of Nursing, University of Washington
Harold Atkinson
>
> Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
> Steve
a woman with a sweet voice. Unfortunately the name is gone. However
this might jog someone else's memory.
Best regards, Harold
james
: oks...@ix.netcom.com(Stephen ) writes:
: >Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
: I suspect that the original is a good deal older.
: I would be delighted to hear where all this came from.
Cray, Ed. The Erotic Muse. U. of Illinois Press. 1992. Page 223.
The second chorus is fashioned from the last three lines of
the song "Sweet Violets" by J. K. Emmet as it was sung in
his now-forgotten play of 1882, _Fritz Among the Gypsies_.
... Those lines run:
Oh, sweet violets, sweeter than all the roses,
Zillah, darling one, I plucked them
And brought them to you.
Repopularized in a 1951 recording by Dinah Shore, with words
and music credited to Cy Cohen and Charles Crean, that version
was "adapted from a folk song," according to Jacobs (p. 226).
All my best,
James Prescott (ja...@nucleus.com) (PGP user)
Eric Berge
In Article<4ka2td$2...@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>, <oks...@ix.netcom.com>
write:
> Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
> Who recorded it? Could it have been The Weavers?
> Steve
Oscar Brand has a version of this on one of his "Bawdy Songs and Backroom
Ballads" LPs.
Eric Berge
Bob Longmire
17:46:06 GMT, ...
>oks...@ix.netcom.com(Stephen ) writes:
>>Does anybody remember a song- "Sweet Violets"- of the early 1950's?
>You mean "Sweet Violets" has an _original version_? %^) I've never
>heard anything but bawdy parodies of it.
>In the mid 1950s I heard kids sing
> In the springtime, in the springtime, in the springtime of yore,
> I knew a young lady who was quite a
> Beautiful lady; she lay in the grass,
> And when she rolled over, she'd show me her
> Ruffles & tuffles & sometimes a tuck,
> And she promised to show me a new way to
> Bring up our daughters & teach them to knit,
> While the boys in the horse barn were shoveling
> Hay for the horses, which is quite an art,
> But, boy, does it smell when the horse lets a
> Sweet violet, sweeter than all the roses,
> Covered all over from head to toe,
> Covered all over with sweet violets.
I remember one from Mitch Miller, that was something like...
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 which 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
(you guessed it)
Sweet Violets ...
There was another verse but that was a long time ago.
^^^^ Bob Longmire
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` Hillside, IL (GMT -6)
Paul J. Stamler
the Prairie Ramblers (I think) recorded a series of 78s in the early
1940s under the pseudonym of the Sweet Violet Boys. Mildly naughty stuff,
i.e. "I Haven't Got a Pot to Cook In".
Peace.
Paul
catherine yronwode
I have a 78 rpm record of the Sweet Violet Boys singing "Sweet Violets."
Another great bawdy song they did was "I Love my Fruit" ("I am simply
wild about bananas/the way i love them is a dog-goned sin...")
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Barrie McCombs
was ten feet down in the cess-pit on the farm, cleaning out a clogged
drain. The odor at the time was anything but "sweet violets".
- Barrie