Forest lawn (LP版)-Tom Paxton

[ti:forest lawn (LP Version)] [ar:Tom Paxton] [al:The Best Of Tom Paxton: I Can't Help Wonder Wher I'm Bound: The Elektra Years (US Release)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.83]Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket [00:04.53] [00:05.70]Put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket [00:09.69] [00:11.19]Let the drum and bugle corp blow taps [00:14.48]While the cannons roar [00:16.03]And sixteen liveried employees pass out souvenirs [00:19.60]From the funeral store [00:21.28]I want to go simply when I go [00:24.39] [00:25.19]They'll give me a simple funeral there I know [00:31.00]With a casket lined in fleece [00:33.15]And fireworks spelling out "rest in peace " [00:36.00]Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn [00:40.43]Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn they understand there [00:45.42]And they have a heavenly choir and a military band there [00:50.35]Just put me in their care I'll find my comfort there [00:55.25]With sixteen planes and a last salute dropping a cross in a parachute [01:00.64]I want to go simply when I go [01:05.11]They'll give me a simple funeral there I know [01:10.20]With a hundred strolling strings [01:11.62] [01:12.55]And topless dancers with golden wings [01:15.30]Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn [01:22.54]Oh come come come come [01:25.92]Come to the church in the wild wood [01:30.97]Kindly leave a contribution in the pail [01:37.02]Be as simple and as trusting as a child would [01:43.29]And we'll sell you the church in the dale [01:52.07]To find a simple resting place is my desire [01:55.96] [01:56.70]To lay me down with a smiling face comes a little bit higher [02:01.77]My likeness done in brass will stand in plastic grass [02:07.11]And weights and hidden springs tip [02:09.72]It's hat to the mourners filing past [02:12.39]I want to go simply when I go [02:15.54] [02:16.46]They'll give me a simple funeral there I know [02:22.08]I'll lie beneath the sand [02:24.42]With piped in tapes of Billy Graham [02:27.10]Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn [02:30.94]Rock of ages cleft for me [02:37.70]For a slightly higher fee [02:44.59]Oh take me when I'm gone to Forest Lawn