insanejane wrote:I think it's weird how Forest Lawn cemetery turns into an outdoor movie theatre in the summer and you can rent the cemetery for weddings and birthdays
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is this the same Forest Lawn? :
Oh lay me down in Forest Lawn in a silver casket
Put golden flowers over my head in a silver basket
Let drum and bugle corp play Taps while cannons roar
As sixteen libertied 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 and a last salute, they’ll drop across 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 weights and hidden springs will tip its 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!
hahaha always thought that song was hilarious!! (John Denver recorded it)
(hey, there were worse people i could listen to in the 70's)
