Oh, lay me down in Forest Lawn   In a silver casket   With golden flowers over my head   In a silver basket      Let the drum and bugle corp play taps   While cannons roar   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 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 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   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