Rose Garden?

[WildHearted]

Does anyone know if there's any sort of correlation between the song Rose Garden by Joe South (or as made popular by Lynn Anderson in 1970) and Stevie's Rose Garden, inspiration wise? I know Stevie has said that she wrote it when she was 16, but there's similar titles, there's the similar theme and lyrics "I never promised you a rose garden" - "You never promised me a rose garden", "I could promise you things like big diamond rings" - "You never promised me a ring made out of diamonds" ... so I just wasn't sure.

I mainly ask because my Grandfather was a musician out of Atlanta who had a couple of a minutely successful song but never made it big, and part of my families folklore is that he actually wrote "Rose Garden" or at least an early incarnation of it, and Joe South (who he ran in the same circles with) stole it from him and he could never prove that he had come up with it. Now, obviously I wasn't alive then, and my grandfather isn't alive now, but my Grandma swears up and down that she knows he wrote it because she was there, and she'll go on ranting for days about it.

I was just reminded of this a few days ago when I played a song I wrote for my Grandma and she started freaking out about me needing to get it copyrighted so it didn't happen to me, lmao.