Angel With A Lariat

I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden
Along with the sunshine
There's gonna be a little rain sometime

When you take you gotta give
So love and let live and let go
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 rose growin'
On stalks of clover
Well, you better think it over


Well, if sweet talkin' you
Could make it come true
I would hand you the world right now
On a silver platter
But what would it matter


So smile for a while
And let's be jolly
Life shouldn't be so melancholy
Come and let's share the good times
While we can


I beg your pardon
I never promise you a rose garden


Well, i could sing you a tune
Or 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
There won't always be someone there
To pull you out
That's just what i'm talkin' about
I beg your pardon
I never promised you a rose garden

Folks been diggin' into the ground
Won't be stoppin' until it's found
They might dig all the way to china
That would be just fine
You understand what i'm sayin'
They don't wanna work
They're hopin' and a prayin' for
Pay dirt


Folks are goin' to the rivers
And siftin' in the sand
All they've been findin'
Is the lids of tin cans
Of course it doesn't stop 'em
There's big bucks sellin' junk
Then turn around and buy it
For more than it's worth
They gamble and they bargain for
Pay dirt, pay dirt, pay dirt
Pay dirt


Well, i heard tell that some folks
Won't fall in love
Unless the one they's courtin'
Got more than enough
Well, nothin' gets the heart a goin'
Faster than a wad of dough
Unless it's the price of
A tease and a flirt
And promises of fistfuls
Pay dirt, pay dirt
Pay dirt

Last night i heard
A ruckus down the road
No time to lose and so away i go
I saw the lights
At the junction...
Pulled in my wheels
And checked the show


(turn me round)
(they're) dancin' round, round, round
(turn me round)
Square dancin' round, round, round
And down and round
(turn me round)
They're dancin' round, round, round
(turn me, turn me, turn me)
They're dancin' round
(turn me, turn me, turn me)


I couldn't believe it
So i circled back and then
Cooled up my engine
And i walked right in
Allemande left and rip it on up
And circle back and go
It was a square dance
Like a rockin' rodeo


Wait up, little boy!


Take it home, partner
Tears it on up and do-se-do
Don't you let go
Just reel and reel and reel
And rock it all over and back
Now circle left, then circle right...on back
Take it from the top
And tear it on up
And never let her go
Just dance a little longer


I danced and partied
Till my feet went through the floor
I swung my partner
Till i couldn't stand no more
Allemande left and circle back
Circle round and then
We rocked and rolled around
And did it again

Angel, angel from the sky
Came right down to sit beside
This lonely achin' heart of mine
That now, folks, feels sublime
Now i'm a walkin', talkin'
And a spinnin'
I can't keep my face from grinnin'
Things are roarin', soarin'
Oh what a feelin'
And to think it's just beginnin'


Angel with a lariat
Carry me home sweet chariot
With you


Angel toss your rope around
Yank me up from the ground
Sound the trumpets, send a hue
Ascending angels through the blue


I feel emancipation
No, i don't worry
Set my bugaboos down to worry
There's no aggravation
There's no worry
For i have found a true love surely


Yeah
With you
Angel!

I love the brunettes, blonds
And the redheads, too
Love 'em since i don't know when
I love 'em all right down the line
And then i start all over again
I tart all over again

I got the bull by the horns
In a downhill drag
Things are better than they ever have been
I missed a lot of lovin'
In my lifetime
But i'm never gonna do it again, no
Never gonna do it again


Well, as a kid in school
I guess i done pretty well
All hung around me then
But i acted shy
And i let 'em get away
But i'm never gonna do it again, no no
Never gonna do it again


Over this town
Tryin' to find the places you've been
And i missed your huggin'
On the first go around
But i'm never gonna go around again
Well, let's go round again