Review Of Who Sings Never Promised You A Rose Garden References. Rose garden ( 1970) charted: Web lynn anderson singing her classic in 2011.

Web “i never promised you a rose garden” was written by joe south, a talented songwriter and singer himself. (i never promised you a) rose garden was written by joe south, a musical polymath who made a name for himself as a session guitarist (he played on bob dylan's 1966 blonde on blonde album) and songwriter. Web rose garden (also known and covered as (i never promised you a) rose garden) is a song written by joe south, best known as recorded by country music singer lynn anderson, and originally released by billy joe royal in 1967.