The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21554   Message #2702410
Posted By: Charmion
17-Aug-09 - 03:16 PM
Thread Name: Funeral Tunes, songs that heal
Subject: RE: Funeral Tunes, songs that heal
My aunt the atheist wants "Aignish on the Machair" (also known as "Going West") sung at her funeral -- no small challenge, that. It's in the Songs of the Hebrides collection by Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser, and I just know she wants a harp accompaniment ... and she'll haunt me if she doesn't get one.

When day and night are over
And the world is done with me
Then carry me west and lay me
In Aignish, Aignish by the sea.

And never heed me lying
Among the ancient dead
Beneath the white sea breakers
And seagulls crying overhead.