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