Forest Lawn
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket
put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket
While the drum and bugle corps
play taps while cannons roar
while sixteen liveried employees
Sell souvenirs from the funeral store.
I want to go simply when I go
they'll give me a simple funeral there I know
With a casket lined in fleece
And fireworks spelling out "rest in peace"
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn they understand there
they have a heavenly choir and military band there
Just put me in their care
I'll find my comfort There
with sixteen planes in a last salute
they'll drop a cross in a parachute.
I want to go simply when I go,
they'll give me a simple funeral there I know
With a hundred strolling strings
and topless dancers in golden in golden wings.
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Oh, come, come, come, come.
Come to the church in the wild wood
kindly leave a contribution in the pail.
be as simple and as trusting as a child would
and we'll sell you the church in the dale.
To find a simple resting place is my desire
to lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higher.
My likeness cast in brass
will stand in plastic grass
while hidden weights and springs
tips my hat to the mourners filing past
I want to go simply when I go
they'll give me a simple funeral there I know
I'll lie beneath the sand
with piped in tapes of Billy Graham.
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Rock of ages cleft for me, for a slightly higher fee
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn