Rose Garden Lyrics
By Lynn Anderson

Welcome to the Rose Garden Lyrics page where below you'll find the lyrics and a video demo tutorial of this tune.

This popular country song was a huge #1 hit for Lynn Anderson back in 1970. The song almost never got recorded because Columbia Record executives wasn't fussy about some of the lines in the song. But since there was recording time remaining in the studio, it got recorded. And Clive Davis, the head of Columbia, liked the song and had it released as a single.




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--- Start Of Rose Garden Lyrics ---

I beg your pardon ... I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine ... there's gotta be a little rain sometimes
When you take you gotta give so live and let live or let go ... I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

I could promise you things like big diamond rings
But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover
So you better think it over
Well if sweet-talkin' you could make it come true
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter
But what would it matter?
So smile for a while and let's be jolly ... love shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can

I beg your pardon ... I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine ... there's gotta be a little rain sometimes

BREAK

I beg your pardon ... I never promised you a rose

I could sing you a tune or promise you the moon
But if that's what it takes to hold you ... I'd just as soon let you go
But there's one thing I want you to know
You better look before you leap still waters run deep
And there won't always be someone there to pull you out
And you know what I'm talkin' about
So smile for a while and let's be jolly ... love shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we can

I beg your pardon ... I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine ... there's gotta be a little rain sometimes
I beg your pardon ... I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine ... there's gotta be a little rain sometimes

--- End Of Rose Garden Lyrics ---





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