What nursery rhyme concludes with Violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you?
Roses Are Red Roses Are Red "Roses Are Red" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem. Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic "The Faerie Queene" (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6): A nursery rhyme significantly closer to the modern cliché Valentine's
Sweet Violets reached # 3 on the Billboard magazine charts. It has also been recorded by Mitch Miller and the Gang, Jane Turzy, and Judy Lynn. The song (in all its versions, combined) reached #1 on the Cash Box magazine best-seller chart. Numerous folk versions exist in which the implied lyrics are more risque. Copyright 1951 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. by Cy Coben and Charles Grean Sweet Violets "Sweet Violets" is a 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.