BS: Songs at my wake

Subject: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 06:13 PM

As I contemplate my impending demise, I have decided to list the tunes I want my cousins to sing.

First tune, sung loudly and with passion... Isn't It Grand Boys
October Winds (my version)
Jug Of This
The 23rd of June
May Morning Dew
The Parting Glass (my version)
No Rain by Blind Melon (yes, that does seem odd eh?)
And then the lads can go nuts on the geetars n fiddles n mandolins and whistles n sing whatever the hell they wanna entertain me with.

How's by ye?

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 06:30 PM

Festival of friends by Bruce Cockburn.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,#
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 06:34 PM

Baby Blue by Badfinger
Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams
The Boys of Summer by Don Henley
Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac
Evangeline by Los Lobos
Diggy Liggy Lo by Doug Kershaw
Jambalaya (on the Bayou) by Rusty and Doug Kershaw
No Expectations by The Rolling Stones
La Bamba by Ritchie Valens

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 06:38 PM

My wife has a list for my wake - she thinks I'm going first, heh, heh, heh.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,#
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 06:39 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 07:15 PM

No wake, is tge request.0 I have made.
Since I wont be there to enjoy it,
It seems like a waste of money to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 07:16 PM

No wake, is the request that I have made.
Since I wont be there to enjoy it, 
It seems like a waste of money to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 07:26 PM

Bye bye love (Everly brothers)

I told you I was sick (written by me)

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 08:14 PM

GUEST Date: 03 Apr 15 - 06:38 PM

Hahahahahahaaaaa! Thanks! I am still laughing as I type. Hehehehehee....

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 08:53 PM

"I told you I was sick (written by me)" Where can I listen? I absolutely love your tunes (as you already know, of course). Or, perhaps, I have already heard it and forgot. Happens far too often these days... sigh.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 09:05 PM

You going somewhere, gnu?

Turn, turn, turn
We gotta get outa this place
Great balls on fire

but mostly I don't care. Drink up and enjoy and try not to get too many rings from the glasses on the coffin.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 10:07 PM

Have not written it yet bro Lol but I will

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 10:12 PM

If any of my former rocker friends show up i can have highway to hell by ac/dc on standby

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 03 Apr 15 - 11:42 PM

I really don't want a single penny pocketed by the exploitive parasitic funeral business...

I've an intention one day before it's too late to seriously research donating my body to science, medicine,
or any other organization which will dispose of my remains for free, or as cheaply as possible..

Though the mrs might not be to happy to comply with this, completely ignore my stubborn beliefs
and still pay a small fortune to get me cremated...

Whatever, I obstinately want "Windmill in old Amsterdam (I saw a mouse) " by Ronnie Hilton"

followed by "Bike" from Pink Floyd's first LP

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmW17QvUhRM ]

played at some point in the recycling process
to annoy any solemn presiding bureaucrats / petty officials and funeral directors,
and to cheer up as many mourners as possible...

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 01:38 AM

I want free beer and lots of singing at my wake. What's sung, is up to the singers; but I hope they have a good time.

Since I became part of the folk community, I've been to some terrific wakes. But most didn't serve beer.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,#
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 06:50 AM

A wake without whisky? I don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 11:38 AM

now westling winds by dick gaughan
what's so funny'bout peace love and understanding - the slow version by nick lowe
may you never -john martyn
bindi bhagee - joe strummer and the mescaleros
case of you -joni

well that's today's choice - all different tomorrow

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: olddude
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 11:56 AM

I want burned up and put in a coffee can. I like coffee and well.. One last smoke

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 12:11 PM

Oh... I don't intend to be at my wake except in spirit. When my wake is held, I will be at the medical school at Dalhousie U in Halifax, NS.ca. It's a great deal! They keep you for three years max and then cremate you and ship the ashes to the person(s) you designate. Free urn too. Unfortunately, I live in NB.ca and you GOTTA be buried... money racket! Soooo, I am gonna hafta find someone who will take them in a province that allows scattering my scatterbrains. Then, that someone can get them to one of my cousins so I can RIP at The Top of the Trailer Road. It's a height of land near the Alagash and Mountain Heaths where I used to camp in October and November. Amazing and peaceful spot waaaay back in the bush. I miss being in the bush. The people there are so... so... not there.

Gee. Three song (titles) right there! Might be a long night tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Mrrzy
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 12:44 PM

I want my kids to sing Isn't It Grand, Boys, loudly and with feeling, also too. We did at their father's funeral.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: olddude
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 01:56 PM

Joe free beer, don't advertise or the fellas will help ya along there guy. Ya gotta say beer 12 bucks a bottle

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 02:31 PM

Technically, human remains ashes are considered a deleterious substance, and is not allowed to be disposed in an aquatic environment (if you "officially" ask permission to scatter them of authorities, that is- if you don't, "unofficially", no one cares).

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Janie
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 02:55 PM

What Joe and Rap said - and I also hope there is dancing.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Apr 15 - 03:49 PM

How about this one-Don Williams still has
It.
I believe in you 

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,achmelvich
Date: 05 Apr 15 - 06:40 AM

ewan mccoll's 'joy of living'

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: GUEST,MikeL2
Date: 05 Apr 15 - 07:00 AM

Hi

Wake me up before you go go.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Apr 15 - 08:29 PM

Done Laid Around
What's the Life of a Man?
Mrs. Ravoon..(some will understand)
.....and whatever else they feel like, but ending with

"The Sweet Briar" from Utah Phillips' "El Capitan", like it was sung for him..

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Apr 15 - 09:43 PM

Well, I was thinking about this....will I have to get a liquor license for my funeral if there's free beer?
Hey, if I'm dead, they can't arrest me for serving alcohol without a license....can they?

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 05 Apr 15 - 09:44 PM

- My mate Paul's version of Ewan MacColl's "Joy of Living"
- British Sea Power's "Remember Me"
- Fairport Convention's "Meet On The Ledge"

A couple more that I've not settled on yet, plus hopefully some live tunes sets from surviving friends.

And LOADS of beer!

Never been to a wake without lots of beer and/or whisky!

When my friend Phil died his instructions were: "No religion. Loads of free beer". He left £1000 behind the bar of a local pub.

When my climbing buddy "Buzzard" died we had a celebration of his life too, at a local hostelry, with songs, stories and oceans of beer.

When another climbing mate, Ray, died, we had a fantastic weekend-long wake. The "service" was in the local village hall where he lived, with the coffin on a trestle at the front and each eulogist rssting his/her drink on the coffin whilst talking (Ray's instructions!). After the cremation we climbed the mountain at the back of his house and scattered his ashes at the top, to the accompaniment of a piper playing a lament and numerous shots of whisky. Music, food, more drink and dancing at his house in the evening.

Most of the funerals and wakes I've been to have been joyous celebrations of fully-lived lives rather than miserable lamentations.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Gurney
Date: 06 Apr 15 - 03:27 PM

A LOT of English Traddy songs. I was the only one who liked them.

I used to sing them unaccompanied. Years later I found that I'd been singing them a capella.

Load of rubbish. No-one would sing THEM in a chapel.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Ed T
Date: 06 Apr 15 - 04:33 PM

"if I'm dead, they can't arrest me for serving alcohol without a license....can they?""

If there is an after-life, there are likely a big after-life bureaucracy to deal with there also.;)

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Apr 15 - 05:52 PM

With PFR, Joe, and Gurney on this.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 06 Apr 15 - 06:08 PM

Well! This turned into a fine thread! Thanks for the wonderful posts.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Apr 15 - 08:20 PM

Mind you, I don't plan to have a wake because I don't plan on going. I don't like that much heat.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 15 - 01:12 PM

What about videos?

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Janie
Date: 11 Apr 15 - 05:08 PM

While I am not particular about what might get sung, I do hope and wonder who, if anyone, will sing for me

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 03:11 AM

This is the second recent song-based thread that has been posted below the line as a BS. Why? What gives?

As to thread: shan't be there, so whatevs those left behind who loved me might feel like -- anything or nothing, according to their wills and tastes.

Any old how: tho 83 next month, not planning to go just yet. Watch this space!

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: DMcG
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 04:22 AM


If there is an after-life, there are likely a big after-life bureaucracy to deal with there also.;)

Perhaps the worst vision of hell I've heard yet - makes flames etc seem mild!

As for songs, "what's the Life of a Man?" Is one I'd like - I had it at my 60th birthday celebrations. John Kirkpatrick"s "Dust to Dust" would be another. Then the Waterson's sing a lot of reviivalist songs that in some cases were written specifically for funerals, such as "Sleep on, Beloved"

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: gnu
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 12:28 PM

Well, I put it below the line so MY posts could be (kinda) BS and not offend any of them thar uppity types, eh? I hope this thread doesn't get toooo serious like. Don't get me wrong... serious posts are always welcome but I like the humourous BS ones too.

Hmmm... now *I* am confused.

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 01:17 PM

gnu ===

WAKE up!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Songs at my wake
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Apr 15 - 01:44 PM

"Great Balls A-Fire!"