[ti:Rose Garden]
[ar:Lynn Anderson ]
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[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