Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   Oh nurturing years of so long      When I was a boy I planted a garden yeah   That meant so much to me one of reality, yeah   A garden of love none like this before   One of a kind equality, yeah   A prayer for you and me      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   Oh nurturing years of so long, so long      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   They say a stranger treated them wrong      If we can keep the candles burning   To shelter them from pain   Oh, let them laugh again      Shower the world with their innocence   Who's tears felt like rain   History remains the same      But one by one they come up missing   Strangers thought, strangers thought I was sleeping   Some life, some life means nothing to some   Watch out now we've got them on the run, on the run, yeah      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   Oh nurturing years of so long      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   They say a stranger treated them wrong      Tell me whatever happened to my garden of black roses   Will some one help me sing this song   I haven't seen them for so long, so long      My black roses, where have you been   Will some one say, my, my black roses   My precious black roses, night and   I hear the children cry they say      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   Oh nurturing years of so long, so long      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   They say a stranger treated them wrong      Whatever happened to my garden of black roses   Will some one help me sing this song, please