...what song would you request to be played at your funeral???

Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox :cool:

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home - 1969

Let it Bleed

loud.

Everybody will get snot slinging kamode huggin drunk first off as I'll have a big ass Irish wake. Music, let me see, Fat Man in the Bathtub, Willin, Ghost Rider cause of my hog, Long Black Veil sung by my o'lady using her G37 I bought her and I'll be buried with my favorite blade and my pitbull. Whether he likes it or not. Probably not though if he don't like it. And last but not least as they are at my gravesite all hung over and puking and stuff my daughter will play Amazing Grace on her sax. Oh yea buried face down so everyone mo fo can kiss my ass! But probably my o'lady will just save the dough and have me burned. thanks

'Please Don't Bury Me' - John Prine

"South Rampart Street Parade" - it's already in my will.

Bach - "Sheep May Safely Graze"
Bobby Darin - "The Curtain Falls"(live)
Frank Sinatra - "Softly, As I Leave You"
Gene Watson - "Farewell Party"
George Jones - "The Last Letter"
The Statler Brothers - "How Great Thou Art"('70s version)
Merle Travis - "I'll See You In My Dreams"

"Bought Some Swampland In Florida" - Jim Campilongo, Live at the Cafe Du Nord
"Life Without You" - SRV

"Voodoo Child - Slight Return" - Hendrix
"Little Wing" - Hendrix

"Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?" sung acapella by a men's chorus.

I want an farting armpit choir to do a version of "He stopped loving her today".

"See that my grave is kept clean" Dylan version.

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

Shine On You Crazy Diamond.....
If 6 was 9

Mostly there are three pieces of music at the funeral services I attended, so I choose three...

"When I'm Dead And Buried Don't You Weep After Me", by Joan Baez. Now to find that song... it was on her first LP and I didn't find a cd-version yet.

Then a part of the Requiem by Tomas Luis Da Victoria; some of the purest music ever written.

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And lastly "My Generation" by the Who. :mrgreen:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond.....


+1 thats what I want at mine!!

Just to be weird,my choice would be some Sacred Steel.

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I don't have to worry about a funeral, wake, or anything like that..... I am 32 years old and the world is going to end (as we know it) in 2012 so I most likely will be going out in a blaze of brimstone and fire as the world riots with my Springfield .45 in one hand, my Colt Trooper Mark III .357 Mag in the other, and my 12 gauge over my shoulder.

now it the world does not end then I will have The Chicken Dance, Achy Breaky Heart, The Machirana, The Electric Slide, and any other cheesy hokey songs I can think of. also, The get together will be more of a get together at the beach with bar-b-que, watermelon, and the works.

As the mourners file into the stadium:

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followed by

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and finishing with

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performed by the Bangles themselves, of course. Then everybody goes to some bar and gets stinky.

I mentioned "Expecting to Fly" before but I have 2 others.

"Party Fears Two" by the Associates [ Mr. Bill MacKenzie (r.i.p.) and Alan Rankine ]

And that big ol' Russian funeral dirge those guys always play at State funerals.

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Hey, my heart will be free. But everybody else needs to suffer for 5 minutes, no? :^)
Save the Jazz Funerals for the next guy. I don't want no *=*=*=*=* tourists that never knew me finding an excuse to dance on my dime. Can you imagine some fool dancing at your funeral that never heard of you and could not possibly know who you are? How outrageous is that?

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Winnie

Yackety Sax!

Don't Cry - Guns 'n' Roses

Little Wing - SRV version; Jimi's lyrics about his mother wouldn't really fit my death.

My neighbour, who has been like a second mother to me, wants "She Talks To Angels" by the Black Crowes.


I cannot imagine being buried without the bagpipes playing Amazing Grace while they lower me down.

+1 The Long Road - Cliff Eberhardt

Wing and the Wheel - Nanci Griffith

Rock of Ages - Dad's choice for his so I'll keep the tradition going.

I dunno, but I hope it is a party song. I want people to have a big shindig when I take the final trip.

i'm with you canes.

my grandmother passed away this spring, and she requested polka (her favorite) to be playing at the wake. really turned what was going to be a dreaded day into a celebration of her life...

i just hope when i go, a few of my friends are around who can play, and they can play whatever they want...

if i was choosing one song, give me pat martino and gil goldstein doing "we'll be together again."

Blackbird.

'(When They) Lay Me Down' by 'The PLayers'

Written by John Hobbs and appeared on the Players album, now out of print sadly.

"When they lay me down, I hope the beer is cold and band plays loud'

Tear Stained Eye by Son Volt. I've known from the first time I heard it that I wanted this played at my funeral.

Walking down Main Street
Getting to know the concrete
Looking for a purpose from a neon sign
I would meet you anywhere the western sun meets the air
We'll hit the road, never looking behind
Can you deny, there's nothing greater
Nothing more than the traveling hands of time?
Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
But saints don't bother with a tear stained eye
Seeing traces of the scars that came before
Hitting the pavement still asking for more
When the hours don't move along,
Worn-out wood and familiar songs
To hear your voice is not enough
It's more than a shame
Can you deny, there's nothing greater
Nothing more than the traveling hands of time?
Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
But saints don't bother with a tear stained eye
Like the man said, rode hard and put away wet
Throw away the bad news, and put it to rest
If learning is living, and the truth is a state of mind
You'll find it's better at the end of the line.
Can you deny, there's nothing greater
Nothing more than the traveling hands of time?
Sainte Genevieve can hold back the water
But saints don't bother with a tear stained eye.

+1

One of my favorites. :smile:

i'm with you canes.

my grandmother passed away this spring, and she requested polka (her favorite) to be playing at the wake. really turned what was going to be a dreaded day into a celebration of her life...

i just hope when i go, a few of my friends are around who can play, and they can play whatever they want...

if i was choosing one song, give me pat martino and gil goldstein doing "we'll be together again."

My father in laws best friend has a daughter who killed herself. He played amazing grace on slide at the funeral. They said it made a sad event even more heartwrenching. I want the opposite. I want them to play some Earth wind and fire and get your their dance on, drink some Knob Creek and smoke some fat cheap cigars. my whole life i have enjoyed making people smile, why should that change in death.

Amazing Grace - Willie Nelson
For a Rocker - Jackson Browne
Life Without You - SRV
The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles
I Wish You Peace -The Eagles
Truckin' - The Grateful Dead (What a long strange trip its been!)

I'm with you on that wylde4canes.

Funkin' for fun- Parliament
Mothership Connection(Star Child)- Parliament

"I'd rather be Dead than wet my Bed" - Harry Nilson

"The..tha..the..tha..That's All Folks"-Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes exit song.

Peaches en Regalia - Zappa might be nice.
Some reggae.
Something with some minor 7th chords?

Not something I've thought about. I do have a revocable trust, pour over will and durable power of attorney where instructions are to spend as little as possible to get rid of what remains and have a party for those who remain.

Having lost a parent at an early age I have to say ya'll should consider the getting a revocable trust, pour over will and durable power of attorney done if you'll be leaving anybody or anything behind.

i have actually thought about this a lot!
and i have a bit of a list...

*"in my life" (the johnny cash version)

*"satisfied mind" (the jeff buckley version)

*"i shall be released" (the joe cocker version)

*"keep me in your heart" by warren zevon

*"wish you were here" by pink floyd

*of COURSE "free bird" by skynyrd

*"lay your burden down" by ben harper and gov't mule

*"a song for you" (the carpenters version)

It's kind of weird that this would be the only post from this guy, and it was two-and-a-half years ago. Do you think he...? Naaah. That would be entirely too coincidental. Wouldn't it?

For me, the memorial would start with "Your Long Journey" from the Krauss/Plant album, and it would end with "That's Life" by Sinatra.

The song that I told my wife NOT to play is Amazing Grace. It's so overplayed it kills me.

As I went back through this, two more came to mind:

"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" - Byrds version (Was our weeding song)

"Romance in F minor" - Atonin Dvorak (A beautiful piece of music)

Funeral.......i'm gonna live forever..........

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Tangled Up In Blue - Dylan

Angel, Hendrix

When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease - Roy Harper

LT's Midnight Dream .. Steve Miller Band

The theme song from "Fame"

"Someday never comes"...CCR, very underrated song

Anything, as long as I get to play it.

Stairway to heaven
highway to hell
In my time of dying
wildwood flower
simply because they were the first songs I learned on guitar.

chunk of coal followed by amazing grace!

Carry on, Wayward Son.

Angel, Hendrix

ahh I want Angel!!!

but sung in gospel choir style with beautiful harmonies

in fact I would like to arrange it myself one day when I think my time is running out :neutral:

"For Goodness Sake Dig Me Up, I'm Not Dead Yet!"

I'm Still Alive, Pearl Jam

So Long (Its Been Good to Know You)

If I'm the last to go, who will play these songs?

:^)

"Dead Flowers" by the Stones and then Shine a Light By the Stones and Moonlight Mile by the Stones.

you are sick, but i love it

free bird and shut up, thats my wishes play the song and get me in the ground barried with my tele because if the egyptians were right, ima need her

'High Tide or Low Tide' by Bob Marley

followed by

'I'll fly away' by the Alabama Spirituals

as they push the casket out the door

"You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" - Byrds version (Was our weeding song)

Very romantic, nothing like a spot of gardening to stoke the fires!

Attics of My Life, by the Grateful Dead

+1

"I can only imagine" During a renovation at my church a older gentleman who had attended that church for over 20 years suddenly and unexpectedly died right on the stage I mean there one moment and GONE the next. My buddy CJ played this song acoustic solo at John's funeral, I tell you the presence of the Lord was overwhelming. If I go first it's gotta be the same friend singing the same song.

Forever Young - Zimmerman.

I'm gone, Let me send a message to those that have an earthly life left. I know where I'm going!!!
PEACE

Mozarts Clarinet Concerto or a bit of it .Actually anything thats not well know .I wont go into details but certain well known songs by Lionel Ritchie and Robbie Williams break me up and always will .pick something that NEVER comes on the radio .

"I will rise" by Chris Tomlin

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D.O.A. by BloodRock

The End by the Doors
Break on Through the Doors

thats so strange because "the funeral" by band of horses just came on my itunes haha then i saw this thread.

i'd say "as long as i can see the light" by ccr for mine though.

I wonder if I can get LOS LOBOS to play at my wake?

Mark

For some reason I always liked Naive Melody by the Talking Heads.

Duane Eddy playing Peter Gunn LOUD

I think "Down in the Bottom" would be a good one.

The Last Ride. By Todd Rundgren.

"Contrary To Ordinary", written by Billy Jim Baker and performed by Jerry Jeff Walker.
I've been doing this tune for many, many years. I strive to live up to the lyrics.

I never live my life through other people's eyes
I guess I've always been the one they said was
Too tall, too late, too early (too loud!)
Yeah, he's the one
You ought to be in the circus
You're having too much fun

Just a one-man band, a one man gypsy circus
Finding out each piece of the puzzle has a purpose
Drifting and dreaming
Yeah, that must be my fate
Always grinning down the devil's throat
Blazing with aces and eights

And I was contrary to ordinary
Even as a child
Fast freights made me wonder
The full moon still drives me wild
And stories do come true
You just got to live your life in episodes
With one eye on a lady
And one eye still on that open road

And when I die don't put no tombstone on my grave
Just have my friends throw a great big party
Toss my ashes out across the waves
Don't bring no preacher man down
Just to tighten up my past
Just tell 'em how I like to live
I like to make sing and dance and laugh

And I was contrary to ordinary
Even as a child
Fast freights made me wonder
Full moons still drive me wild
And stories do come true
If you live your life in episodes
With one eye on a lady
And one eye on that open road

Somewhere Over the Rainbow (and I'm a Rocker! Love that song)

Fly to Jesus (by Chris Rice)

Witches on the Heath - Buckethead
Mrs. Beasley - Giant Robot
Vordhosbn - Aphex Twin
Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
Stone in Focus - Aphex Twin

That's quite a wide variety.. My funeral would be a rockin' place if all of them were played.:wink:

Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead.
Or, How Can I Miss You If You Won't Go Away?

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Great topic! I've given this a bit of thought over the years. For me, it has to be 'At the Hop' by Danny and the Juniors.
I briefly worked at a chapel in a cemetery, and if I hear 'My Way' one more time, I'll kill someone!! lol

Please don't talk about me when I'm gone.

Leon Redbone.

Wow, thread from 2006. Okay, I'll play...how about "Who am I?" Casting Crowns and "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" played in a shuffle style (like SRV's Pride and Joy)?

"As Long As I Can See The Light" by CCR when they bring me in and
"Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin when they take me out.

Ava Marie sung in Latin by a sultry female

Midnight Riders would be cool. I like Robin Trower's One In A Million.

During the slide show at the end of the last memorial service I attended, they played some jumpy blues plus a Frank Siantra song that had you snapping your fingers. It was pure Mr. Hardy!

Savage Earth Heart by The Waterboys. I don't know, I just always thought it would make a good funeral song for me. :)

Going Underground- the Jam

Good Day (is any day that you're alive)- Paul Westerberg

Joe Cocker's version of the Harry Nilsson song "Don't Forget Me" and "St. James Infirmary"

When You Wish Upon A Star..the original Cliff Edwards version. Loved it when I was a kid watching the Disney show..still gives me shivers.

It was said by someone else but not demonstrated:

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THAT oughta get some waterworks flowin'!

And after that, to show there's no hard feelings, I 100% agree with Octatonic up there.

"Just A Gigolo" - David Lee Roth; Dave TV - We know what You want. :cool:

They can listen to whatever they want, I don't plan on attending. :razz:

Gran Torino by Jamie Cullum or When The Ship Comes In by Bob Dylan.

For You ; Bruce Springsteen

I wonder if I can get LOS LOBOS to play at my wake?

Mark

I'm comin' to your wake Bro'! And I'm recording it!

for the church:
Is there room on the cross for me - Scott Miller
Dead Flowers - Stones
Down to the River to Pray - Doc Watson
The Man in Black - JC
When the Man comes Around - JC
I'm Coming Home - Robert Earl Keen
Waltzing Matilda - Tom Waits

The Wake:
Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer - Johnny Russell
Broken Whiskey Glass - Jason and the Scorchers
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
Silver Wings - Merle
If you think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart
The Dark Side - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown band

The Second Line New Orleans portion of the Wake:
Medley: When the Saints /Circle Be unbroken/
Foot of Canal - Paul Sanchez

LINK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P597JhOBj8)

"In the presence of the Lord" by Blind Faith

Or possibly taps played on Xylophone. :-)

Powderfinger - cowboy junkies version of a neil young classic
little bit of rain - by caren dalton
arrows thorn - a little song that I co-wrote with a friend of mine and she incautiosly promised to sing on the sunny day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE7rkSELM3I

Avette Brothers, Murder in the City

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After giving it some thought... this one, definitely!

Pink Floyd "Echoes"
Heard it on the way to work this morning and was imagining how wacky and surreal the instrumental interlude with its sound effects would be during a funeral. Wonder why that crossed my mind, bizarre.

"Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic

Graceland - Paul Simon

"We all will be received in Graceland."

1) It's Not Safe-Aimee Mann
2) Stone (aka Evolution)-Ronnie Lane
3) Rock and Roll-Velvet Underground
4) Burst of Joy-Borah Bergman
5) When Things was Cheap-NRBQ
Right, it's a funeral, not a disco. I'll stop now.

At the end of the wake - The Party's Over - Willie Nelson

As my ashes are dumped in S.F. Bay - In Dreams - Roy Orbison


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I'm totally not myself, I'm not myself oh no - Bobby Valentino

Not thought about this one, but my boss choice:

Pink Floyd - Time

I would like my friends to play guitar and sing on:

Townes Van Zandt - Rex's Blues
Tom Waits - Old Shoes (and Picture Postcards)

I hope I didn't already answer this thread but currently I would pick "Naive Melody" by the Talking Heads.

A little help from my friends - Joe Cocker

Summertime - Janis Joplin

My generation - The Who - Live

Ramble On - Led Zeppelin

SRV - Voodoo Child

All my tears, be washed away. Julie Miller

The great gig in the sky - pink floyd

Heaven - talking heads


Yes, that or "Mother Earth" by Memphis Slim.

It is kinda weird, but I've been thinking about it for a while (I wonder did you guys wondered as a teenagers about your funeral lol).

My choices are:

1. The End - The Doors (maybe without f*** words, but it's ideal for a funeral i think)
2. Time - Pink Floyd

but I think Epitaph- King Crimson would be the best for my funeral. And even I would like to write it's lyrics onto tombstone!

I don't just want music at my funeral.
First I want a really dark-humoured British comedian, such as Jimmy Carr or Frankie Boyle, to come up on stage and do a comedy routine taking the proverbial Michael out of me and my death.

After that I want a really, really bored looking man, wearing one of those ridiculous 'fruit basket' hats with a party hat perched haphazardly on top of it, to come up on stage and, still looking really bored, play Pachelbel's Canon on a digital keyboard with the sound set to 'Bird Tweet'. Oh, and with the right hand playing in D major and the left in F minor, with the two hands about 1/32 of a beat out of sync with each-other, to make it REALLY annoying.

Finally, I want 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley to be played and for a projector to come up and display this image:

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Oh, and on the projector underneath the image would be, in big, bold letters, '(By the way, the guy who wrote this song is dead too. Just thought you should know.)'

...What? Stop looking at me like that! I'm a dark-humoured smartarse who would want his friends and family to get some humour out of his death instead of grieving because I know that if I could defy all logic and see my own funeral I would rather see everyone either shocked and offended or laughing than sad. It's my nature.

My best friend's father always said he wanted the Star Trek theme played at his funeral. He passed away in 2004 and of course it was played. It was so funny but so sad.

I'd like to have When I Get Where I'm Going played.

I want everyone to play taps on the kazoo.

Gimme three steps

I wouldn't want to single out anything in particular that was indicative of my taste, so maybe something stupid like "deck the halls", "happy birthday", or "found a peanut".

I'm not entirely sure I believe it, but I'm sorta liking "Blake's View" by m. ward these days:
Death is just a door, Blake said it first
It's just another room we enter, it's a threshold that hurts
Birth is just a chorus, death is just a verse
In the great song of spring that the mockingbirds sing
We come and we go, a-weeping and a-wailing
Our heads in the hands of the nurse
Well, put your head on my shoulder, baby, tell me where it hurts
You say you lost your one and only, could it get any worse?
I said, "Death is just a door, you'll be reunited on the other side"

Thriller
Whatever " I cam see clearly now the rain is gone" is called. Is it bright sunshiny day?
And, Time to say goodbye, the little opera number. It's what I play at the end of gigs sometimes to get people to leave. That's how I'd want it used too. To kinda push people to the doors. " That's enough mourning, now move along."

The Loony Toons theme song with Porky saying; "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!" at the end.

It was down by old Joe's barroom at the corner of the square
They were serving drinks as usual and the usual crowd was there
To my left stood Big Joe McKennedy, his eyes was bloodshot red
He turned his face to the people...these are the very words he said...

THAT'S WHAT LIVIN IS TO ME - Jimmy Buffett

Be good and you will be lonesome
Be lonesome and you will be free
Live a lie and you'll live to regret it
That's what livin is to me


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvylXKQZQQ&feature=related

Long and Winding Road
Every Breath You Take
Stairway to Heaven
Tears in Heaven
Across the Universe
And, just because my wife and I have an inside joke about it, The Who's "Won't Be Fooled Again".

After the Gold Rush..

Save the last dance for me

Spirit in the Sky.

'if you really want me to i'll go'

sir douglas quintet

Was just thinking of this the other day.

"Shine On You Crazy Diamond" by Pink Floyd would be my current pick. Followed by "Ride On", by AC/DC

The Pogues - "body of an American" or "If I should fall from grace with god"

"Stroke me" by Billy Squier. If that's not accessible at the moment, maybe "the Rappin' Duke" by Rick Dees... but seriously, I guess I'd go with something a bit maudlin, like Accept's "Balls to the Wall".

Buckaroo

"Amazing Grace" at the funeral (the VERY SHORT funeral), then a wake, with lots of booze (though I don't drink any more), good food, and loud music.

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" - Eric Idle

Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen

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Aussie band- Silverchair's song, "the Greatest View"...



" I'm watching you watch over me, and I've got the greatest view"...


....listening to the fading reprise as I drift up into the ether...:cool:

Should I Stay or Should I Go

Or Timebomb by The Royal Crescent Mob

People get ready

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"Not Dark Yet" - Bob Dylan

Better still, something from this album!

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I've actually asked my wife to make sure this is played at my funeral as people file out sobbing and distraught, not knowing how to get through life without The Peoples Poet.
" I've Been Balled, Like I've Never Been Balled Before "....Ry Cooder I think. ( Or might be Bobby King and Terry Evans with Ry.)

This one? :grin:

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Highway To Hell, AC/DC followed by Dig Me Up To Bury Me, Flotsam and Jetsam :lol:

Thunder Road,the Robert Mitchum one.

I would play "Knife Edge" by EL&P
"One More Red Nightmare" by King Crimson
and at the end "Echoes" by Pink Floyd.

These all have no deep meaning, They are just my favorite songs.
And the crippling embarrassment of anyone that wants to leave while a 22minute song plays at the end. :lol:

Against the Wind - Bob Seger

'Travels' on the live album of the same name by the Pat Metheny Group. The title kinda sums up my feelings about passing on. And the guitar playing is beautiful.

Rock In Peace - ACDC
Great Gig in the Sky - PinkFloyd

On the Road Again. Willie

Someday never comes - CCR
Let it Ride - Ryan Adams
Remember the Mountain Bed - Wilco

a huge gospel choir singing:

[U2] Still haven't found what I'm looking for

and

[Bob Dylan] Death is not the End

while I'm lying in my casket with my tele on the chest :-)

Closer U get the more U think about such things. No funeral, cremation and the ashes spread at the gates of Big Bend Nat'l park in West Texas. ? song "My Hometown" by Bruce.

Present Tense by Pearl Jam

I used to have a friend who was a studio pianist. If I could find him again I would have him play his version of Funeral for a Friend.

Radiohead - Videotape

or

Buckethead - Sail on Soothsayer

I've told several people this, and I really mean it, Travis Tritt's "It's A Great Day To Be Alive". I like to smile :) Remember me with a bit of humor rather than sadness

' I Want To Hold Your Hand ' by The Beatles
' Face Yourself ' by Michael Hedges

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99 googles of bottles of beer on the wall.


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Hellhound on my trail - Robert Johnson

Don't fear the reaper - Blue oyster cult

Death is not the end - Nick Cave

The Chi-lites, Elaine Paige, the Stylistics, Sydney Devine, Daniel O'Donnel, Pat Boone, rap music, techno house garage thing, the Rite of Spring:

Anything I don't like really, after all, I'll be dead and won't hear it.

Buckaroo

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Strip Buckaroo.

If I had to choose today, which luckily I don't - it would be 'Live And Learn' by The Cardigans. It's an awesome song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0gbFBFgW4

Can't pick a single song. At my funeral I would request that all of my friends and the folks that I play with regularly all get together, throw an all day shindig, play every song that they know, roast a fat pig or have a fish fry, eat, and then play some more. Have my funeral about 7 a.m. and jam 'til the wee hours of the morning. In a barn with a fire burning just outside and old timers standing around telling those funny stories of all the stupid things I've done and then read my will to see who I left all my guitars and amps to. . . .

. . . .and the banjo.:roll:

Waltz of the Angels - The Derailers

A Telecaster?

A Long and winding road.
Somebody got murdered - The Clash
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

Over the Rainbow by Iz...

Bach - "Sheep May Safely Graze"
Bobby Darin - "The Curtain Falls"(live)
Frank Sinatra - "Softly, As I Leave You"
Gene Watson - "Farewell Party"
George Jones - "The Last Letter"
The Statler Brothers - "How Great Thou Art"('70s version)
Merle Travis - "I'll See You In My Dreams"

my little brother wrote this 11 days before he died. God, I miss him.

Just to brighten spirits.. Tiny tims version of living in the sunlight

Shawn Colvin's "I Don't Know Why" with it's stunningly beautiful solo.

In my time of dying - Led Zeppelin

Sweet September-Earth Wind and Fire, to lighten the mood

The theme from 'Days of our Lives'

"The Other Side of Life" Emmy Lou Harris
"Once in A Life time" The Talking Heads
"Theater and Tea" The Who
"Life By the Drop" SRV

Time - Pink Floyd

Time - Pink Floyd

Me too

Behind Blue Eyes - The Who
The Ballad of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Bad Luck Blue Eyes - The Black Crowes
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
Cold Cold Feeling - Albert Collins
The Thrill Is Gone - B. B. King
Stormy Monday (if the event falls on a Monday)

And for some strange, perverse reason: Judas Priest's You Got Another Thing Coming and Megadeth's A Tout le Monde.

My father-in-law was a big Bob Wills fan. My wife arranged for a few Wills records to be played at his funeral. More than a few folks in attendance were surprised. I'd go for something surprising, too, though it's hard to settle on one particular song. Maybe I'll write and record something - and keep it hidden until my funeral.

Breaking The Law...that would be suprising

Well, Cross Roads Blues(Robert Johnson) to spook everyone, then maybe change it up with Never Gonna Give You Up(Rick Astley). That's all I got.

This would be fine.

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No-one has mentioned "He stopped loving her today" yet ?

I'll go with that. " I'll love her till the day I die..."

Always look on the bright side of life?

"Ride On" - AC/DC

Somebody got murdered - The Clash

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or...

Death or Glory - The Clash

The musical piece Going Home played on guitar by Mark Knopfler. My ashes to be thrown into the sea at Taneh Lot, Bali, my spiritual home.

i'm pretty sure i didn't see this song anywhere in here, and i'm SHOCKED! as far back as i can remember, even as a young teen, i always wanted everybody i play music with to come together and play Drift Away, by Dobie Gray when i go. I personally can't imagine a more fitting song or time to play it.

my favorite song of all time is Ain't Wastin' Time No More, by The Allman Brothers Band. It would probably be nice to get that in one last time too!

my favorite band is The Band, favorite songwriter is Bob Dylan, and favorite guitarist is SRV. can't go wrong with ANY of their tunes either, obviously!

"see you later alligator"?

"goodbye cruel world"?

"should i stay or should i go"?

"my way" (sid viscious vers.)?

"Famous Last Words"

I'm Gonna Miss Her.

"Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" Monty Python
"Disco Inferno" any Northern Soul version
"Burn Baby Burn" and/or "Shining Light" Ash
"Don't Leave Me This Way" Jimmie Somerville
"Way On Down" Elvis Presley
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go" The Clash
"Way Down In The Hole" Steve Earle - whilst guests arrive
"Angel" Sarah McLachlan

... how long will the wake/piss-up be?

Goodnight Kiss-Dream Theater

+100 for Blue in Green. Also Moonlight Sonata. Buddy Miles "Them Changes" would be great for when everybody's walking out!

"Ripple" - Garcia and Hunter

Something by John Prine...his unique, witty & entertaining lyrics would put a smile on every face there I'm sure. Then maybe a mix of my fave guitarists in there too. Not sure which songs...I'm getting too sad thinking about my own death :)

Two songs...

MY WAY--Sinatra



and this more recent one...it says it all...eloquently...(hope this works--if not--it is "It's Your World Now--The Eagles)


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Born under a bad sign.

The Beatles > Because

Stairway To Heaven. :razz:
#1 - :mrgreen:

Burn for You. INXS

Spirit in The Sky

I'm gonna live forever. Billy Joe Shaver.

Judas Priest - Hell Bent for Leather

What song are we gonna play, when this thread dies?

Frank Zappa, Jazz From Hell?

Goodnight Kiss-Dream Theater


TMLFAN,
Based on the line in your signature, I would have expected you to say "get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy..."

That is, unless I have that reference wrong. Hail to the 'Hip!! One of my favorite bands. 'course, I am pretty close to the border.

Dean

Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Tarrega played by Julian Bream or John Williams.

I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive - Hank Williams

Gone - The Bouncing Souls

When The Angels Sing - Social Distortion

Killed By Death - Motorhead

Riviera Paradise

Wow I think this is the biggest thread I ever killed.

Take it Easy (Eagles)
Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell)

Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time"

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VkBvLAc7S4

I had surgery a while ago and had to fill out a book thing with a bunch of stuff like that incase I kicked the can. I went with George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass"

I was a big fan of Roy Rogers when I was a kid, so I'm gong to go with "Happy Trails".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSlnJIpRkhc&feature=related

Handel's Messiah

Like i'm going to check someone ain't already said it

Carly Simon, nobody does it better.

I was a big fan of Roy Rogers when I was a kid, so I'm gong to go with "Happy Trails".
Good one. I think I'll make that my choice, too.

Cavatina -john williams or the shadows

Old Man-Neil Young

MY WAY--Sinatra


Your funeral might come early if you sang that at karaoke in the Philippines! (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/world/asia/07karaoke.html) :shock:

http://youtu.be/rY0WxgSXdEE

:D

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu7XWgczC7o&feature=related

Angel from Montgomery, John Prine, the Bonny Raitt version

Keep me in your Heart, Warren Zevon

Harry Manx- Make way for the living as everyone's leaving the funeral

Second song on the album just click on it to play
http://harrymanx.com/west-eats-meet/

Yellow Submarine

While my guitar gently weeps- harrison


and i want to be buried with one of my guitars the rest can be family heirlooms

In the long run

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Miss You [Stones]

On a Cloud - "Cross Canadian Ragweed". Nothing explains it better...

Let him Roll
Guy Clark
Old No 1
1975

He's Gone - Grateful Dead

It finally came to me:

Jackson Browne - The Load Out/Stay

Spirit in The Sky

+1

You don't move me anymore

Spider in My Web by Ten Years After From the "Undead" album recorded live at Klooks Kleek, Railway Hotel
Still to this day my favourite song in the whole world.
I bought it on vinyl, 8 track, cassette, cd and now it exists digitally right where I can get at it.
Alvin Lee on Guitar, Chick Churchill on Organ, Ric Lee on drums, Leo Lions on bass I believe. I'm not sure of the name spelling anymore and I can't seem to buy another copy of that album anywhere. (xwives keep stealing my stuff)This is the only version of that song to listen to over and over and over. I can hear the horns in the Leslie spinning as we speak and feel the strings bending beneath my fingers. Yeah, May I rest in peace to that tune indeed..
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Take It Easy My Brother Charles by Jorge Ben, followed by Loose by The Stooges (during which song I hope to burst out of the coffin, re-animated by the Stooges' life-giving music!).

Bad to the Bone

The Internationale would be a must for my funeral.

Takin it Easy

I'm gonna eat some worms

For A Dancer

Life's been good.

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Life's been good.

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Not sure myself. But my wife is adamant "straight to hell" by Drivin & Crying

"Black Market" by Weather Report.

And everybody's gotta get up and dance!

Requiem Mass in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Hey all,

New member to the forum and happened to come across this thread - very timely, as my father (not quite 83) passed away a week ago today.

We all saw it coming, and it was kind of a weird mix of relief and sadness when it happened. And, one of the things we had to deal with was what music to play at the funeral - Mom (not quite 81) had the last say. There were some "church songs" (not that there's anything wrong with that) and "Turn, Turn, Turn" - beautifully performed by a singer and a keyboard (piano & organ) player.

Got me thinking about what I would want played at my funeral. (And Mom has her whole song list planned!)

I read through the thread and got a kick out of a lot of the suggestions. Seemed like "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was the most requested.

My Dad was in hospice care the last week or so and said to my youngest brother as he was leaving one night, "See you in the next world..." - and I'm thinking, "Wow, Dad's chanelling Jimi now!" Which is kind of weird, because I don't think Dad ever really cared for Jimi's music. (...And don't be late.)

I suppose my favorites of other peoples' choices I saw were....

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python
The Great Gig In the Sky - Pink Floyd
("Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was pretty good too.)
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
Requiem Mass in D Minor - Mozart

The ones I didn't see that I would like at my funeral were...

Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile) - Santana
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day

After the funeral, we got together at my sister's house and ate and drank and played guitars & sang. The set list included...

I Ride an Old Paint - Traditional
The Weight - The Band (R.I.P. Levon)
Teach Your Children - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Souvenirs - John Prine
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Oh Danny Boy - Traditional
The Dutchman - Michael Peter Smith/Steve Goodman
Where Have All the Flowers Gone? - Pete Seeger
The General - Dispatch

and a few others.

We had three generations singing. Dad would have liked that.

Requiescat in pace.

JM

This is for the people who died - Jim Carroll

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Bill Monroe's 'What would you give in exchange for your soul' and Frank Zappa's 'Watermelon in easter hay.'

I don't care .... as long as they play it loud enough for me to hear.

The playlist will have to include Carmina Burana - ok, the "O Fortuna" movement that kicks it off. And, of course, Elvis Presley's "I'm Leavin'."

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