Select language to translate this lyric
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket,
Put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket.
Let the drum and bugle corp play taps while cannons roar
And sixteen liveried employees sell souveniers 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 and a 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 with golden wings!
Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.
Oh, come, come, come, come,
Come to the church in the wildwood,
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 tip it's 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!
- Album:
- Miscellaneous
- Rocky Mountain Christmas
- Live In La 1971 (The Troubadour, West Hollywood, 1 Sep...
- Legends
- Forever, John
- Sunshine On My Shoulders: The Best Of John Denver
- Steel Box Collection - Greatest Hits
- Collections
- Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits
- 3 Originals
- Take Me Home, Country Roads
- Complete Albums
- The Classic Christmas Album
- Dreamland Express
- Seasons Of The Heart
- Some Days Are Diamonds
- John Denver
- I Want To Live
- Windsong
- An Evening With John Denver