John Denver - Forest Lawn Lyrics
This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the take me to tomorrow? album, and on the changes album. it has also been released on the an evening with john denver album as a livSion.Oh lay me down in forest lawn in a silver casketPut golden flowers over my head in a silver basketLet the drum and bugle corp play taps while the cannons roarAnd sixteen libertied employees sell souvenirs from the funeral storeI want to go simply when I goTheyll give me a simple funeral there I knowWith a casket lined in fleeceAnd fireworks spelling out rest in peaceOh take me when Im gone to forest lawnOh lay me down in forest lawn they understand thereThey have a heavenly choir and a military band thereJust put me in their care Ill find my comfort thereWith sixteen planes and a last salute theyll drop across in a parachuteI want to go simply when I goTheyll give me a simple funeral there I knowWith a hundred strolling stringsAnd topless dancers with golden wingsOh take me when Im gone to forest lawnOh, come, come, come, comeCome to the church in the wild woodKindly leave a contribution in the paleBe as simple and as trusting as a child wouldAnd well sell you the church in the daleTo find a simple resting place is my desireTo lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higherMy likeness cast in brass will stand in plastic grassWhile hidden weights and springs tip its hat to the mourners filing passedI want to go simply when I goTheyll give me a simple funeral there I knowIll lie beneath the sandWith piped in tapes of billy grahamOh take me when Im gone to forest lawnRock of ages cleft for meForests lightly higher feeOh take me when Im gone to forest lawnAmenWords and music by tom paxton
