I beg your pardon I never promised you a rose garden
ran 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 I don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover
so you better think it over.
When it's sweet talking you could make [bad word] [bad word] 
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 [bad word] along and share the good times while we can.

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.
So look before you leap still [bad word] deep
and there won't always be someone 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 [bad word] along and share the good times while we can.