Rose Garden

Song Rose Garden
Artist Lynn Anderson
Album Country Classics Volume One

Lyrics

[00:01.68] Rose Garden
[00:02.70] Lynn Anderson
[00:03.72] (peak Billboard position # 3 in 1971)
[00:04.68] Words and Music by Joe South
[00:06.32] I beg your pardon
[00:09.45] I never promised you a rose garden
[00:13.66] Along with the sunshine
[00:16.98] There's gotta be a little rain some time
[00:21.11] When you take you gotta give so live and let live
[00:24.22] Or let go oh-whoa-whoa-whoa
[00:27.77] I beg your pardon
[00:30.73] I never promised you a rose garden
[00:36.28] I could promise you things like big diamond rings
[00:39.70] But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover
[00:46.14] So you better think it over
[00:50.16] Well if sweet-talkin' you could make it come true
[00:54.62] I would give you the world right now on a silver platter
[01:00.37] But what would it matter
[01:03.95] So smile for a while and let's be jolly
[01:08.89] Love shouldn't be so melancholy
[01:12.61] Come along and share the good times while we can
[01:21.09] I beg your pardon
[01:21.74] I never promised you a rose garden
[01:25.42] Along with the sunshine
[01:27.87] There's gotta be a little rain some time
[01:41.22] I beg your pardon
[01:43.19] I never promised you a rose garden
[01:48.56] I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
[01:52.04] But if that's what it takes to hold you
[01:54.65] I'd just as soon let you go
[01:58.23] But there's one thing I want you to know
[02:01.83] You better look before you leap, still waters run deep
[02:05.67] And there won't always be someone there to pull you out
[02:10.26] And you know what I'm talkin' about
[02:16.40] So smile for a while and let's be jolly
[02:20.94] Love shouldn't be so melancholy
[02:24.96] Come along and share the good times while we can
[02:30.72] I beg your pardon
[02:33.16] I never promised you a rose garden
[02:38.11] Along with the sunshine
[02:41.53] There's gotta be a little rain some time