"Sweet Violets" is an American song that contains classic example of a "censored rhyme", where the expected rhyme of each couplet or verse is replaced with a surprising word which segues into the next couplet or chorus. For example, the first couplets of the version recorded by Dinah Shore are: 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.]