What have happened to my garden of black rosesOh nurturing years of so longWhen I was a boy I planted a gardenThat meant so much to meOne of reality, yeahA garden of Love, none like this beforeOne of a kind quality, yeahA prayer for you and meWhat have happened to my garden of black rosesOh nurturing years of so long [so long]What have happened to my garden of black rosesThey say a stranger treated them wrongIf we can keep the candles burningTo shelter them from pain,Oh let them laugh again, oh ohShower the world with their innocenceWhose tears felt like rainHistory remains the sameBut one by one they come up missingStrangers thoughtStrangers thought I was sleepingSome lifeSome life mean nothing to some peopleWatch out now we’ve got them on the runWhat have happened to my garden of black rosesOh nurturing years of so longWhat have happened to my garden of black rosesThey say a stranger treated them wrongTell meWhat have happened to my garden of black rosesWill someone help me sing this songI haven’t seen them for so long [so long]My black rosesWhere have you beenWill someone sayMy, my black rosesMy precious black rosesNight and dayI hear the children crying they sayWhat have happened to my garden of Black RosesOh nurturing years of so long…