Not to be confused with Sweet Violets, a parody of the song My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean.
Song
"Sweet Violets"
Song
"Sweet Violets" is an American song that contains classic example of a "censored rhyme", where the expected rhyme of each couplet is replaced with an unexpected word which segues into the next couplet or chorus. For example, the first couplets go:
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 [etc.]
The chorus is taken nearly verbatim from the song "Sweet Violets" by Joseph Emmet, from his 1882 play Fritz Among the Gypsies:
Sweet violets, sweeter than the roses
Covered all over from head to toe
Covered all over with sweet violets.
The song was recorded by Dinah Shore with Henri René's Orchestra & Chorus in Hollywood on May 20, 1951. The song was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-4174A (78 rpm record), 47-4174A (single) (in USA),[1] by EMI on the His Master's Voice label as catalog number B 10115 in the UK, and EA 3997 in Australia, also on the His Master's Voice label.[2] The Dinah Shore version was arranged by Cy Coben and Charles Grean. It reached number 3 on the Billboard chart.[3]
It has also been recorded by Mitch Miller and the Gang, Jane Turzy, and Judy Lynn.[citation needed]
The song (in all its versions, combined) reached number one on the Cash Box best-seller chart.[citation needed]
Numerous folk versions exist in which the implied lyrics are more risqué.[citation needed]
^"RCA Victor 20-4000 - 4500 78rpm numerical listing discography". 78discography.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^"Dinah Shore - Sweet Violets / Down In Nashville, Tennessee". Discogs.com. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
^Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 390. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
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