Rose garden - Lynne Anderson

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.


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

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.

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[michele3566]

i love this song

[metafis]

"You'd better look before you leap, still waters run deep and there won't always be someone there, to pull you out'.

What a great inspired lyric!.

[83adika]

hmm...i like old song's;))it's cool.

[123shazbat]

I love this song the best :)

[xHaniffax]

My mum is the most serious person I know, but a little snippet of this song came on on tv and she started singing. It was an actual miracle....then she asked for it on a record lol.

[shizzleman8]

@wendyrose123 There's gotta be a tutorial on it somewhere on the internet. If not on YouTube try UltimateGuitar doht chom.

I have a video on charting piano and guitar music. How else are you going to remember?

[wendyrose123]

i use to be able to play this on guitar but i cant no more

[themaytagrepairman]

This song was stuck in my head all day. So I thought let's see if it's on youtube. Thanks for posting it. I finally got to hear it after 15 years. I love this song. Always did.

[1959starchild]

Lynn Anderson and Dolly Parton and Lorrettet Lynn they are the Queen's of country music. and that's the truth there is no-one better them. Stay strong and keep making music.

[10Tuxedo]

So that's why my mother always said this after she left the bathroom...

[nikkigracexoxo]

amazing song, my grandma used to sing that to me :)