Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Firecat Date: 29 Nov 03 - 07:07 PM Well, I don't intend to die until at LEAST 2064 (I'll have got to 80 then!) but I love the following songs:- "Lament" from Evita "Castle On A Cloud" from Les Miserables "Will You Wait For Me" by Kavana "You Have Been Loved" by George Michael "Say Goodbye" by S Club And for a finale "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence! No doubt these will change as I get older. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Hillheader Date: 29 Nov 03 - 03:16 PM The Parting Glass It's a Wonderful World My coffin will be brought into the crematorium to the strains of Carrickfergus. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Cllr Date: 29 Nov 03 - 01:21 PM oops started reading more of the thread and Mr Mcgrath had got the idea before St ill great minds think a like Cllr |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: voyager Date: 29 Nov 03 - 12:39 PM Cast Your Fate to the Wind Dying Crapshooters Blues I Shall Be Released Cast Your Fate to the Wind (reprise) voyager PS - You're all invited! |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Cllr Date: 29 Nov 03 - 12:21 PM Something really old, written at the turn of the twenty second century say 2104, Cllr |
Subject: Lyr Add: ONLY MEMORIES REMAIN From: GUEST,reggie miles Date: 29 Nov 03 - 11:05 AM I had recently completed this song when I was asked to sing at the grave side of a friend's brother. My friend wanted me to sing a Willie McTell song "Pearly Gates". I sent him the words to "Only Memories Remain" and asked if he thought it would be appropriate. Just before I began to sing he gave me the option so I ended up singing it and sang "Pearly Gates" later at the wake. He also had everyone join in on another Willie McTell favorite of mine "Dyin' Crapshooters Blues". ONLY MEMORIES REMAIN As I walked the early morning streets They seemed emptier today Tryin' to reach inside To find which words were right to say But the words weren't there The falling rain must've washed them all away Wish you were here to hear this But only memories remain The times we shared, good and bad Now echoes of the past We said we'd meet next Thursday To get together at long last But it wasn't meant to be Things just happened way too fast I got the phone call this morning Another friend of mine had passed Many believe the human soul is eternal And that the memory of each life will live on forever As long as we, the living, never allow those memories to slip away So it falls to each one of us to make the most of the time we share while we're here together Because it's by these deeds that those we leave behind will recall us again to where only memories remain Wasn't it just yesterday? Our lives entwined as one Sharing love and laughter Damn it that was fun There will never be another To fill your place beneath the sun I hope we meet again someday When my time 'round here is done Silently we gather Reflecting hand in hand About how each life matters How we touch our fellow man Here's to you my brother Until your next refrain Wishin' you were still here with us But only memories remain Yes, here's to you my brother Until we meet again Wishin' you were still here with us But only memories remain Only memories remain |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Phil Date: 29 Nov 03 - 04:17 AM Great thread!! "I'm a man you don't meet everyday" = The Pogues P |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Hsi-wang-mu Date: 28 Nov 03 - 10:40 AM Li T'ieh-kuai Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Li T'ieh-kuai Date: 28 Nov 03 - 10:24 AM What's a Funeral?? Li T'ieh-kuai |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 28 Nov 03 - 10:15 AM Sooz, I always confuse those two, like I always want to call Miranda Sykes Belinda. It's an age thang! (Good song though, no matter who writ it!) |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,S.Milligan Date: 28 Nov 03 - 09:01 AM Peggles, you could also follow up with a chorus of "The Oak and the ASH"!! |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Sooz(at work) Date: 28 Nov 03 - 08:13 AM Tut tut Jonny (I saw your other post) Funeral Song is Keith Marsden! |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 27 Nov 03 - 07:10 PM I like to swap 2 verses of Parting Glass around 0 it gives better feel to me - look at it and you may guess which 2 Robin |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: muppett Date: 27 Nov 03 - 05:44 AM I'd like to have a song I think is called 'Isn't it grand boys'? the chorus goes 'and always remember the longer you live, the sooner you'll bloody well die'. Another song I'd like would be 'happy smily people by REM |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Peggles Date: 27 Nov 03 - 02:29 AM What a great thread. As I plan to be cremated I'd dearly love to have Josef Locke singing "Blaze Away" but that might be a bit too traumatic for the family so will settle for Gracie Fields version of "Wish me Luck as You Wave me Goodbye" |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Peter Kasin Date: 27 Nov 03 - 01:35 AM I'l add one more to my earlier post. Riggy singing Home Lads, Home. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Merritt Date: 26 Nov 03 - 01:43 PM Don't Get Around Much Anymore ~ Russel and Ellington, 1940 - Merritt |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 26 Nov 03 - 01:04 PM Not sure what it's called - but it won't be collected, or possibly written, until around the year 2050. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Strollin' Johnny Date: 26 Nov 03 - 12:38 PM Spaw - Lay Down Your Weary Tune, a great choice - wonderful imagery (and thanks for the lyrics a while back). It's in my repertoire now :-) My own choice is 'The Funeral Song' (Brian Bedford). |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: fiddler Date: 26 Nov 03 - 08:13 AM I'll go with LF above. Recently atended a funeral with the corpse in his box in fishing kit and we sung Fiddlers Green and a slow shanty - magic - If I fished I would - then the pub for a sing and an eat. Celebrate is the best way!!! A |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Gareth Date: 25 Nov 03 - 07:11 PM Mmmm ! Mind you there might be a problem with the 20 minutes per service allocated by the average British Cremetorium ! I still wish for my service to be :- "Stop Engines" Splash "Resume normal speed" Gareth |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Robin2 Date: 25 Nov 03 - 06:52 PM ToulouseCruise, Amazing Grace was my dad's favorite too, and the one he requested, along with "Danny Boy". Family left the music up to me, and I took it as an honor to make sure Dad had a good sendoff! Although I didn't play, two of my good friends played at the service, and then my son sang Amazing Grace. Tough gig, but he pulled it off with just a little quaver. At the gravesite we had a piper play it again, as Dad requested. Now I can't hear the song without misting up. Robin2 |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Zany Mouse Date: 25 Nov 03 - 06:21 PM No contest of this one. I would like: "Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye" - then off to the pub for a good sing! I'll be there in spirit to enjoy. ZM |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: ToulouseCruise Date: 25 Nov 03 - 02:51 PM While I have never thought about it myself, my father has told me he would like to hear the song "Amazing Grace" played... he is now 82, and while is in good health, one never knows what may happen. I have only been singing for a couple years, and I have no idea what I would do if my family suggested that I should at his funeral... it would be an honor to do it, but I don't know if I could hold myself together... then again, should it be something I suggest myself? there's 13 kids in the family (yes, thirteen), so I do not know how much my siblings would be involved... hopefully plenty of time to think this one over.. so while it is a bit of thread creep... what do u all think? |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Mack/Misophist Date: 25 Nov 03 - 02:25 PM I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal, You preferable not the Louis Armstrong version. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Bearheart Date: 25 Nov 03 - 01:44 PM Friends and family gathered someplace beautiful-- outside, weather permitting-- singing and playing their memories of me-- the songs and tunes we've shared. And sing this one: "I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made. Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I will have some peace there, For peace comes dropping slow, Dropping on the veils of the morning, To where the cricket sings. There midnight's all aglimmer, and noon's apurple glow, and evening's full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day, I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. While standing in the roadway or in the pavement grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core." (W.B. Yeats) Because that is heaven to me. Then spread my ashes somewhere on a piece of the green earth I love, under a tree, beside a river. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,guest Date: 25 Nov 03 - 01:16 PM Has be "Will you Miss Me" Guthrie or "She moves through the fair." |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: HuwG Date: 25 Nov 03 - 01:00 PM "Calon Lan" And, since I intend to be cremated (though not for a few decades yet), "Smokestack Lightnin'" |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Obie Date: 25 Nov 03 - 11:14 AM or "Isn't It Grand Boys." |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Joe_F Date: 25 Nov 03 - 09:38 AM "The Night before Larry Was Stretched" (one of the advantages of being hanged is that you can go to your own wake) My mother said, "When I die, put on the Dreigroschenoper". So I did. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Padre Date: 25 Nov 03 - 01:03 AM There are two that I want: "Adoro Devote" with the Swahili words as translated by Edmund Palmer: "Dundee" with words by Charles Wesley - |
Subject: Lyr Add: GONNA SIT DOWN ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER From: Max Date: 25 Nov 03 - 12:36 AM GONNA SIT DOWN ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER by Reverend Gary Davis ©Chandos Music I'm gonna run through the streets of the city Where my Lord have gone on before I'm gonna sit down on the banks of the river I won't be back no more All my crying will be over I won't have to cry no more I'm gonna sit down on the banks of the river And I won't be back no more We're gonna have a good time when we all get there Gonna crown Him Lord of all I'm gonna sit down on the banks of the river God knows I won't be back no more Hallelujah! Well, well Oh, well Oh, oh, yeah! Oh, God knows Well gonna be where no lies be told on me When I get on the other side I'm gonna sit down on the banks of the river Well I won't be back no more Tell God all about my troubles That I had in this world here below I'm gonna sit down on the banks of the river Hey! I'm gonna fly from mansion to mansion When I get on the other side I'm gonna sit down on the banks of the river Well I won't be back no more Gonna meet my mother and my father And my sisters and my brothers too Yeah! What? I'll be where I won't have to say no more goodbyes And won't have to part no more Yeah, sit down on the banks of the river Lord I won't be back no more |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Cluin Date: 25 Nov 03 - 12:05 AM The worms crawl in; the worms crawl out The ants play pinochle on your snout And when you turn a ghastly green The pus runs out like whipping cream. That'll do.... donkey. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Robin2 Date: 24 Nov 03 - 11:29 PM I personally want to hear "Rise Up, Lazarus" Also, what do I want to hear said at my funeral? "Look, she's moving!" Robin2 |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Leadfingers Date: 24 Nov 03 - 09:21 PM My Dad always said"Dont mourn my dying,celebrate my life" So we did. We got the whole family into my nephews pub and had a bloody good pissup.Thanks Dad. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,David Date: 24 Nov 03 - 08:37 PM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie Glad did I live and gladly die And I lay me down with a will This be the verse you 'grave for me Here he lies where he longed to be Home is the sailor, home from sea And the hunter home from the hill (Robert Louis Stevenson) I'd also like a decent choir to sing John Rutter's carol "What Sweeter Music" David |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Rapparee Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:48 PM When the bring the coffin or whatever into church (I'm certain there will be a church ceremony no matter what I would say) I want the priest in black, like in the old days. As they bring what's left of me up the aisle I want the "Dies Irae" sung in Gregorian Chant, in Latin. There will be a funeral mass, of that I'm certain, so I want the songs to get progressively more joyful: "Morning has broken" "St. Patrick's Breastplate" "Rainbow Children" -- that sort of thing. And for the communion hymn I want the musicians to get down on "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog." For the recessional let's do "The Saints." Out at the cemetery, I want the whole bunch to bellow out "Ode To Joy" and then "Bottle of Wine." Or reverse 'em, but those two and accept no substitutes. Do the buryin' early enough and a fiddler could do "Whiskey before breakfast." |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Obie Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:43 PM Prine's "Please Don't Bury Me " would fine with me. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: GUEST,Florentine Pogen Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:36 PM "Elvis has just left the building"..........by Frank Zappa. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Margret RoadKnight Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:30 PM Lanston Hughes requested Duke Ellington's "Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me" |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Margret RoadKnight Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:27 PM "Well May the World Go" (Pete Seeger) and "My Brown Yarra" (Frank Jones) "... toss my ashes off of Princes Bridge, or strap me inside a broken frig,. drop me down in the murky drink and let me lie where I sink..." |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Amos Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:26 PM We hired a Dixie combo to play at my mother's funeral, after all had had their say -- they played her taps and then The Saints, although it was in the middle of a Connecticut greenwood. :>) A |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Gareth Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:07 PM Depends how I go, but the Shanty "Time for us to Leave Her" come near the top of the list in any circumstances. Gareth |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: PapaWhiskey Date: 24 Nov 03 - 07:04 PM We ended my dad's funeral with 'Joy to the World', partly because it seemed to fit and partly because he had an oft-stated aversion to draggy music. Me, I'm okay with draggy music. Please end my funeral with 'Ave Verum Corpus'(KV 618) by Mozart, partly because it seems to fit and partly because no one will expect it. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Blowzabella Date: 24 Nov 03 - 06:21 PM The Good Old Way, sung by The Portsmouth Shantymen - no question |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: TheBigPinkLad Date: 24 Nov 03 - 06:08 PM Benny Hill's "Please let me go round again, Lord" |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Peace Date: 24 Nov 03 - 06:05 PM Go Your Own Way by Fleetwood Mac. Played as loud as the system can handle; lotsa bass, and the odd bit of this and that around for anyone who attends. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 24 Nov 03 - 05:51 PM "I told you I was ill" is what Spike Milligan (The Goon Show) always said he wanted on his tombstone. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Ian Darby Date: 21 Dec 01 - 04:41 AM "Blaze Away" sung by either Norma Waterson or Josef Locke, "We'll make a bonfire of out troubles, and we'll watch them blaze away...." When me Mam died we played "Jerusalem" and a tape of Morris tunes I'd done on my MIDI stuff, we filed out to a versions of "Lord of the Dance", "Merry Sherwood Rangers" and "Blue Eyed Stranger" as if done by a wired up Albion Band. (Four on the floor Drum and Bass heavy). On my Gravestone I want the words "I told you I was ill". (This has already been seen in a Manchester graveyard, or may be apocryphal, I don't care). Excellent thread.... Happy Xmas. |
Subject: RE: What song do you want at your funeral? From: Kaleea Date: 21 Dec 01 - 12:37 AM Song? I only get one song? Perhaps Devilmaster & I are kindred souls as I have always thought I would prefer the New Orleans way of going out in style. If not then, "Just lay me head on a keg of brandy, it is my fancy . . " |
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