C	               		              G7
1. Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket
    G7                                          C
   Put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket
             F                        C                  A                        
   Let the drum and bugle corps blow taps while cannons roar
        D			        G7
   Let sixteen liveried employees pass out souvenirs from the funeral store
      C          F            C
   I want to go simply when I go
            E	       	                      Am
   They'll give me a simple funeral there, I know
            F
   With a casket lined in fleece
        C     	          A                   
   And fireworks spelling out "Rest In Peace"
       D                G              C
   So take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn

2. Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn, they understand there.
   And they have a heavenly choir and a military band there
   Just put me in their care and I'll find my comfort there
   With sixteen planes in the last salute dropping a cross in a parachute
   I want to go simply when I go
   And they'll give me a simple funeral there, I know
   With a hundred strolling strings
   And topless dancers in golden wings
   Take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.

Break 
   G
   Oh come come come come
   	                       D
   Come to the church in the wild wood
       		                  G
   Kindly leave a contribution in the pail
          C                           G
   Be as simple and as trusting as a child would
              D                          G
   And we'll sell you the church in the dale.
 

3. To find a simple resting place is my desire
   To lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higher
   My likeness done in brass will stand in plastic grass
   and weights and hidden springs will tip its hat to the mourners filing past
   I want to go simply when I go
   And they'll give me a simple funeral there, I know
   I'll sleep beneath the sand
   With piped-in tapes of Billy Graham
   Take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn

Ending
    C            F        C
   Rock of ages cleft for me
                   G      C
   For a slightly higher fee
       D                G              C
   Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn.