(Joe South)
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I beg your pardon
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I never promised you a rose garden
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Along with the sunshine
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There's gotta be a little rain some time
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When you take you gotta give so live and let live
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Or let go oh-whoa-whoa-whoa
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I beg your pardon
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I never promised you a rose garden
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I could promise you things like big diamond rings
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But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover
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So you better think it over
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Well if sweet-talkin' you could make it come true
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I would give you the world right now on a silver platter
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But what would it matter
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So smile for a while and let's be jolly
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Love shouldn't be so melancholy
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Come along and share the good times while we can
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I beg your pardon
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I never promised you a rose garden
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Along with the sunshine
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There's gotta be a little rain some time
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[Brief Instrumental Interlude]
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I beg your pardon
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I never promised you a rose garden
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I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon
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But if that's what it takes to hold you
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I'd just as soon let you go
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But there's one thing I want you to know
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You better look before you leap, still waters run deep
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And there won't always be someone there to pull you out
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And you know what I'm talkin' about
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So smile for a while and let's be jolly
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Love shouldn't be so melancholy
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Come along and share the good times while we can
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I beg your pardon
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I never promised you a rose garden
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[Fade]
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Along with the sunshine
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There's gotta be a little rain some time
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Rose Garden
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| Lynn Anderson |
