BS: Your own funeral

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:39 AM

I don't intend having a funeral, having left my body to the Inspector of Anatomy for transplant, research or teaching. Any bits over after the med students have finished laughing will get a free cremation. I suspect my everloving, being a churchwarden, might organise something with her own choice of music but I suppose "Ain't it grand to be bloomin' well dead" might be fitting!
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Bert
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:25 AM

http://www.mudcat.org/bert/songs/plastic.html

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Giac
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:12 AM

No funeral. Just friends getting together, talking about how weird I was and making music. The song?? Hmmmmmm. "All My Life's A Circle."

Giac

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Amos
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:06 AM

Just give me a tight Dixieland quartet, warming up with the Muskrat Ramble, reeling off the Saints, fading to a solo horn doing a heartfelt Taps. Then it's yours truly off to Bill Gates' place to see if they're interested in more offspring. May as well start right next time, eh?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Tony Burns
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 10:03 AM

"Bury Me In My Shades" Shel Silverstein.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:54 AM

I love a song by the Rev Gary Davis called "I Will Do My Last Singing In This Land Someday". Also "While I'm on My Journey" by the Weavers

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:44 AM

"Lay Down Your Weary Tune"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: canoer
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:44 AM

"Safe in the Harbor" -- Eric Bogle

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Allan C.
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:40 AM

Surely one of the best funeral songs ever written was performed by the Crash Test Dummies:

At My Funeral
by Brad Roberts

I'm still young, but I know my days are numbered

1234567 and so on

But a time will come when these numbers have all ended

And all I've ever seen will be forgotten

Won't you come to my funeral when my days are done

Life's not long and so I hope when I am finally dead and gone

That you'll gather round when I am lowered into the ground
When my coffin is sealed and I'm safely 6 feet under

Perhaps my friends will see fit then to judge me

Oh when they pause to consider all my blunders

I hope they won't be too quick to begrudge me

If I should die before I wake up

I pray that the Lord my soul will take but

My body, my body - that's your job

Well I can't be sure where I'm headed after death

To heaven, hell, or beyond to that Great Vast

But if I can I would like to meet my Maker

There's one or two things I'd sure like to ask

Won't you come to my funeral when my days are done

Life's not long and so I hope when I am finally dead and gone

That you'll gather round when I am lowered into the ground

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Crowhugger
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:37 AM

Well, Callie, good morning!

Your cheeriness matches my own today. Let's see now...

Whilst people assemble and wait, or arrive late, fish for kleenex, look to see who paid for the biggest floral arrangement, etc: "Please Don't Bury Me" over and over until it's time for the emcee, er, minister, I mean, to begin.

Singalong hymn substitutes:

"Jennie Jenkins" but the attendees MUST make up verses -- in fact, maybe each person, upon arrival, mysteriously received a small card with a colour on it, but no clue yet as to why. You know, kind of an ice breaker, in case the opening theme doesn't bring on a serious case of the giggles. Not enough colours? Just look at what they name paints...

"Let's Not Just Have a Sniffle" With all the verses a Mudcat thread can conjur. Plus a few more if those present feel creative.

Recessional: "Art Thou Troubled?" A lovely song by the inimitable Georg Frideric Handel. If I'm dead, then it seems fair that one song die too, so it MUST be played by bagpipes and organ! Yes, together. No offence intended to pipers or organists. I simply cannot imagine those instruments pulling off the dynamics necessary for this gem.

Please, no private e-mails about how am I doing. Much better now, thanks. This thread is very therapeutic. Thanks Callie. Gotta go write my codicil now. (Just kidding, honey.)

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: kendall
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:26 AM

Gently down the stream of time..Ed Trickett. And, the last few lines of William Cullen Bryants Thannatopsis.
...So live, that when your summons comes to join that innumerable caravan that moves to that mysterious realm, where each shall take his place in the silent halls of death, thou go, not like the quarry slave at night, scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained by an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave like one who wraps the covers of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

And on my head stone: I knew if I lived long enough, something like this would happen.

Subject: Your own funeral
From: Callie
Date: 07 Mar 00 - 09:09 AM

Ok. I'm feeling cheery this morning. So if you had to choose the music that will be played at your own funeral, what would you choose?

Mine: The Beatles' Blackbird; the melody of "My Lagan Love" played on cello, Phil Ochs' "When I'm Gone" and maybe Elvis Costello singing "Favourite Hour"

Over to you ...

--Callie