My mother didn't want a funeral (she willed her body to a medical school), but she said to put on Die Dreigroschenoper when she died, so I did.

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Amos:

"...the hymn that more than any other belongs to the working-classes, 'Abide with Me': it is sung at football matches and other large public occasions, and many a working-class mother asks only for that at her funeral. My mother did so, and my grandmother some years later; for both of them it had an enormous weight of suggestion, of God as Father, of Heaven as Home, and of the long day of work which had been their lives, drawing to a close." -- Richard Hoggart, _The Uses of Literacy_ (1957).

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