I Never Promised You a 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 sometimeWhen you take you gotta give
So live and let live
And let go oh oh oh oh, I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose gardenI could promise you things
Like big diamond rings
But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover
So you better think it overWell, if sweet talking
You could make it come true
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter
But what would it matterSo smile for a while and let's be jolly
Love shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we canI beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There's gotta be a little rain sometimeI beg your pardon

I never promised you a rose gardenI could sing you a tune and 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 knowYou'd 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 talking aboutSo smile for a while and let's be jolly
Love shouldn't be so melancholy
Come along and share the good times while we canI beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There's gotta be a little rain sometime