Jacqueline MoodyJammin’ Jests, Jukin’ Jives, & Jolly Roger Justice

This is a folk song from the 1800s, but we probably knew it from Dinah Shore’s recording of it in 1951.  I always thought it was hillarious.  Here’s the lyrics as we sang them:

(Chorus) Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses,

Covered all over from head to toe,

Covered all over in sweet violets.

There once was a farmer who took a young miss

’round back of the barn where he gave her a

Lecture on horses and chickens and eggs,

And he told her that she had such beautiful

Manners that suited a girl of her charms,

One that he wanted to take in his

Washing and ironing, and then if she did,

They would get married and raise lots of

(CHORUS)

The girl told the farmer that he’d better stop

Or she’d call her father and he’d call a

Taxi and it’d get there before very long,

‘Cause 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 because it has been my belief,

That marriage will bring a man nothing but

(CHORUS)

Well, the farmer decided to 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 was left in a 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

(CHORUS)