I beg your pardon

I never promised you a rose garden

Along with the sunshine

there's gotta be a little rain sometime





When 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 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 talking 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 sometime





I beg your pardon

I never promised you a rose garden





I 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 know





You'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 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 sometime.....