Comes a little bit higher
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know
Come to the church in the wild wood
Sixteen liveried employees sell souvenirs
Is my desire
Let the drum and bugle corp play taps
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn
And we'll sell you the church in the dale
While hidden weights and springs
Kindly leave a contribution in the pail
With piped in tapes of Billy Graham
In a silver basket
With golden flowers over my head
I want to go simply when I go
They understand there
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn
They have a heavenly choir
Rock of Ages, cleft for me
To find a simple resting place
I'll find my comfort there
And fireworks spelling out 'Rest In Peace'
I want to go simply when I go
They'll drop a cross in a parachute
Tip it's hat to the mourners filing past
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know
And topless dancers with golden wings
To lay me down with a smiling face
Will stand in plastic grass
With sixteen planes in a last salute
With a hundred strolling strings
With a casket lined in fleece
Oh, take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn
For a slightly higher fee
I want to go simply when I go
My likeness cast in brass
Just put me in their care
I'll lie beneath the sand
And a military band there
While cannons roar
Oh, come, come, come, come
Oh, lay me down in Forest Lawn
From the funeral store
They'll give me a simple funeral there I know
Be as simple and as trusting as a child would
