Biography:
Billy Joe Royal (April 3, 1942 – October 6, 2015) was an American pop and country singer.
Born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised in Marietta, Georgia, Royal became a local star at the Bamboo Ranch in Savannah in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known for the 1965 US Top 10 pop hit "Down in the Boondocks", which, along with the singles "I Knew You When" (Top 20, 1965) and "Hush" (1967), were written and produced by Joe South. Another South composition, "Yo-Yo," just missed the top 40 in Canada and charted poorly in the U.
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Other songs:
- Boardwalk Angel
- Burn Like A Rocket
- Burned Like A Rocket
- Campfire Girls
- Cherry Hill Park
- Down In The Boondocks
- Everything Turned Blue
- Hearts Desire
- Hush
- I Knew You When
- I Miss You Already
- I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
- I've Got To Be Somebody
- If The Jukebox Took Teardrops
- Ill Pin A Note On Your Pillow
- It Keeps Right On A
- Love Has No Right
- Old Bridges
- Old Bridges Burn Slow
- She Dont Cry Like She Used To
- These Are Not My People
- Til I Cant Take It Anymore
- Under The Boardwalk
- Yo
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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden:Billy Joe Royal.
Album - Billy Joe Royal Hush - on COLUMBIA Records
in 1967.
INTRO: E A
CHORUS:
A Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
Bm E7
Along with the sunshine..there's gotta be a little
A
rain, sometimes.
D
When you take you got to give, so, live and let
Bm
live, or let go..now..now..now
E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
#1.
A
I could promise you things like big diamond rings,
Bm
but you don't find roses growing on stalks of clover..
E7
so, girl, think it over.
A
If sweet talking you could make it come true
Bm
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter..
E7
but what would it matter?
BRIDGE:
Bm E7 Em
So, smile for a while and let's be jolly, love shouldn't
Gb Gb7
be so melancholy..
Bm D E7
come on and share the good times while we can..an..
CHORUS:
E7 Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
Bm E7
Along with the sunshine..there's gotta be a little
A
rain, sometimes.
D
When you take you got to give, so, live and let
Bm
live, or let go..now..now..now
E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
#2.
A
I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon..
but if that's what it takes to hold you,
Bm
I'd rather let you go.
E7
But there's one thing I want you to know.
A
You better look before you leap, still waters run deep,
Bm
and there won't always be someone there to pull you out..
E7
and you know what I'm talking about.
BRIDGE:
Bm E7 Em
So, smile for a while and let's be jolly, love shouldn't
Gb Gb7
be so melancholy..
Bm D E7
come along and share the good times while we can..an.
CHORUS:
E7 Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
Bm E7
Along with the sunshine..there's gotta be a little
A
rain, sometimes.
D
When you take you got to give, so, live and let
Bm
live, or let go..now..now..now.
E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
OUTRO:
E7 Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden...(Fade.)
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
Album - Billy Joe Royal Hush - on COLUMBIA Records
in 1967.
INTRO: E A
CHORUS:
A Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
Bm E7
Along with the sunshine..there's gotta be a little
A
rain, sometimes.
D
When you take you got to give, so, live and let
Bm
live, or let go..now..now..now
E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
#1.
A
I could promise you things like big diamond rings,
Bm
but you don't find roses growing on stalks of clover..
E7
so, girl, think it over.
A
If sweet talking you could make it come true
Bm
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter..
E7
but what would it matter?
BRIDGE:
Bm E7 Em
So, smile for a while and let's be jolly, love shouldn't
Gb Gb7
be so melancholy..
Bm D E7
come on and share the good times while we can..an..
CHORUS:
E7 Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
Bm E7
Along with the sunshine..there's gotta be a little
A
rain, sometimes.
D
When you take you got to give, so, live and let
Bm
live, or let go..now..now..now
E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
#2.
A
I could sing you a tune and promise you the moon..
but if that's what it takes to hold you,
Bm
I'd rather let you go.
E7
But there's one thing I want you to know.
A
You better look before you leap, still waters run deep,
Bm
and there won't always be someone there to pull you out..
E7
and you know what I'm talking about.
BRIDGE:
Bm E7 Em
So, smile for a while and let's be jolly, love shouldn't
Gb Gb7
be so melancholy..
Bm D E7
come along and share the good times while we can..an.
CHORUS:
E7 Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
Bm E7
Along with the sunshine..there's gotta be a little
A
rain, sometimes.
D
When you take you got to give, so, live and let
Bm
live, or let go..now..now..now.
E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden.
OUTRO:
E7 Bm E7 A
I beg your pardon..I never promised you a rose garden...(Fade.)
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
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