ROSE GARDEN (Post-Resignation Version)
(original version printed below)
I beg your pardon
Now that you've landed in the Rose Garden
Along with wife Tipper,
While I'm atoning like it's Yom Kippur
When you take you gotta give so come and forgive,
Please let me go whoa whoa
I beg your pardon
Now that you've landed in the Rose Garden
I could tell folks things 'bout your fund raisin' flings
Like why you got that money from a Buddhist Nun then,
Don't think you were there for za zen,
Well if sweet talkin' me can't get myself free,
And Ken Starr is gonna indict me and go to trial,
Might need more than my guile,
So pardon me now and let's be jolly,
Sex shouldn't cause such melancholy
Come along and get me out of this big mess
I beg your pardon
Now that you've landed in the Rose Garden
Along with the sunshine,
You gotta breathe those hydrocarbons some time
<brief instrumental interlude>
I beg your pardon
Now that you've landed in the Rose Garden
I could start to get crass and blackmail your fat ass
And if that's what it takes to move you
I'd do it you so-and-so,
But there's one thing I want you to know
You better not abandon me, I know things you see,
And I'll be thinking of you if you don't help me out
And you know what I'm talkin' about
So pardon me now and let's be jolly,
Sex shouldn't cause such melancholy
Come along and get me out of this big mess
I beg your pardon
Now that you've landed in the Rose Garden
FADE
Along with the sunshine
You gotta breathe those hydrocarbons some time
copyright 1998 wayne aaronson
Rose Garden
Artist: Lynn Anderson (peak Billboard position # 1 in 1970)
Words and Music by Joe South
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There's gotta be a little rain some time
When you take you gotta give so live and let live
Or let go oh-whoa-whoa-whoa
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-talkin' 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 some time
<brief instrumental interlude>
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 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 talkin' 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
FADE
Along with the sunshine
There's gotta be a little rain some time
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