Country star Lynn Anderson was born as Lynn Rene Anderson on September 26, 1947 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. She grew up in California and was raised by her mother (country music artist Liz Anderson). Lynn achieved her first top ten hit with the single “If I Kiss You (Will You Go Away)”. Soon after, Anderson joined the cast of The Lawrence Welk Show where she performed country music each week to a national audience. She also appeared on the Tonight Show and did TV specials with Bob Hope and Dean Martin.
Lynn passed away on July 30, 2015 at the age of 67 years old and her legacy lives on in her music. In memory of Country Music great Lynn Anderson, we included her biggest hit of her career below. Her most well known crossover hit, “Rose Garden,” was a number one hit in the United States and internationally. She had five #1 hits and 18 Top-10 hit singles on the Billboard country songs chart. “Rose Garden” also earned her a Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. In 1971, the Country Music Association named her Female Vocalist of the Year.
Listen to Lynn Anderson perform “Rose Garden” and check out the written lyrics below.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Audio)
The “Rose Garden” song was written in 1967 by American singer-songwriter Joe South. The tune was first recorded by Billy Joe Royal on his 1967 studio album Billy Joe Royal Featuring “Hush”. In 1970, Lynn Anderson recorded “Rose Garden” after hearing Joe South’s version. Anderson’s producer rejected the song’s recording because he did not consider it to be a female song. After much convincing, the song was eventually recorded and released as a single by Columbia Records and went on to be a Country and Pop music hit.
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 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…..
I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine there’s gotta be a little rain sometime…..
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