Song from the 70's

When I was riding the School Bus back in the mid to late 70's there was a song that came on almost every morning for 2 maybe 3 weeks then it disapeared...I have not heard it since!! I have searched the web up and down gone to Billboard countdown sites to no avail. Any help is appreciated.

What I remember about the song:

Part of the lyrics that I remember: "I played among the flowers for hours and hours til the showers drove me away"

The song began with music and ended in A cappella. I remember children singing...maybe a choir. It was quite a powerful song...so I remember.

Anyway

Any help is appreciated!

There is a song called "Flowers" by Roy Orbison that has lyrics similar to the ones you remember:

When I was a boy
I ran among the flowers
Looking left and right
At the bright array
I played through the spring
Whiled away the hours
Lingered with the flowers ev'ry day

Chorus
Flowers, pretty flowers, flowers
Life's a bouquet
Flowers, pretty flowers, flowers
Along the way
When I became a man
I felt the summer showers
When I learned to love
I also learned to cry
When I came to know
The beauty of the flowers
I wondered why the flowers had to die

CHORUS
When the summer ends
And the storms of life are over
When the winter comes
And the petals fall away
They may write it on my stone
That he was just a rover
But he stopped to pick some flowers along the way

CHORUS

This song was released in July 1968.

Regards.