Source: Horntip Collection - Half-Mind Hymnal 2011

Lyrics

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 all the roses, Covered all over from head to toe, Covered all over in sweet violets.

She said to the farmer that he’d better stop, Then 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, so these are the words that he said, If you marry her son, you’re better off Single because it has always been my belief, That marriage will bring a man nothing but

She told the farmer she’d wed and she’d wait, And he started in planning for his wedding Suit which he purchased for only one buck, And then he found out he was all out of Money, and so he was left in the lurch, A-standing and waiting in front of the End of the story which just goes to show, All a girl wants from a man is his