What song would you want to be played at your funeral?

[TufNeck]

For me I was thinking, maybe, Hiiiiighway to Hell! Forgive me father for I have sinned LOL

[2Design]

1. Git down tonight.....that is probably not the name...but think is is

casey and the sunshine band song

[MariaS]

2. You Can't Always Get What You Want

but if you try sometimes you just might find
you get what you need.

Rolling Stones

[likesmountains 52]

3. It's a Mistake

by Men at Work..

[Not Me]

7. I had a college professor who had that played at his funeral.

He was a huge Stones fan...and developed cancer. He went fast, like three months; but took the time to make his wishes known.

[murielm99]

4. Something by Janis Joplin...

not sure what yet.

[Gothic Sponge]

5. Anything by Mister Rogers

It's such a good feeling...a feeling inside.....

[PVnRT]

6. What I Got by Sublime

n/t

[blackcat77]

8. An old bluegrass gospel song -- "I'll Fly Away."

I've informed everybody about my desires on this subject so they won't bore people to death with a bunch of tragic hymns.

[homelandpunk]

9. I don't know the title but

the repeating chorus is "All these people are dead dead".
Ayon know the name of the song and the band. Aternative rock...maybe punk genre.

[Maestro]

10. "It's A Beautiful Day"

By U2

[bo44]

11. Just Another Day by Tower of Power

All is fair in love by Stevie Wonder and many more

[Missy Vixen]

12. In My Life

I briefly considered requesting "Born To Be Wild".

Julie

[NoSunWithoutShadow]

28. "In My Life" also

The first song that came to mind. Another Lennon/McCartney treasure. Thanks John; we miss you.

[ilovenicepeople]

33. That was also my first choice

for a couple of seconds then I remember how much I loved the song by guitarist Sonny Sharrock off of the Ask the Ages album titled Who Does She Hope To Be?(I'm not a she though) or maybe Feeling Groovy.Boy that's a tough question,if I get to be the DJ I think I would be spontaneous and pick whatever came to mind at the time.

[pbg]

13. I've actually thought about this...

...and come up with "Hope' by the Mahavishnu Orchestra, and the Enigma Variations by Elgar.
No lyrics either way, and that's the way I want it.

[Supply Side Jesus]

14. "Danny Boy" on bagpipes

sappy as all hell, but I love that song.

Later in the service "Castles Made of Sand" Jimi Hendrix

ending with...something upbeat...."Beautiful Day" would be a good choice...

[LeighAnn]

15. My cousin wanted a Black Crows song but

when he died unexpectedly Grandma and the Aunts ixnayed the whole thing and he got "Amazing Grace" just like everybody else.

Better have someone close to you ready to get an injunction lest the old-timers in your family try to subvert your wishes.

Cheers, and hope you don't die anytime soon (or at all, for that matter)!

[pansypoo53219]

16. dead

by They Might Be Giants

[moof]

17. Bladerunner Blues & One Particular Harbour

[jukes]

18. don't believe in funerals

but when i self-kavorkian, i'll probably be listening to the instrumental @ the end of sade's' "love deluxe".

[jukes]

64. or maybe

Fiona Apple's "Blue Oblivion", an ambiguous drug/suicide song. sometimes it calls to me...

but then, i have a taste for hypnotics & disassociatives these days.

[Red State Rebel]

19. The Promised Land by Terri Gibbs

I hear the grass is green as jade, in the promised land
And mossy trees give endless shade, in the promised land

And Jesus rules as lord of all, at God's right hand
goin there, goin there

Chorus:
I wanna go, where the milk and honey flows
Where Jesus is alive and he's building me a home

I wanna be, where my father waits for me
Longing for the day I finally stand, in the promised land

[xxqqqzme]

20. Ripple in still water

when there is no pebble tossed
or wind to blow.

Ripple - Grateful Dead

[slutticus]

21. Adagio for Strings

By Samuel Barber.

I want a full chamber orchestra dammit!

[Droopy]

22. Something upbeat and life affirming

Maybe Stained's "So Far Away."

[DemOverseas]

23. From Ally McBeal

"There's a new MAN in town"

[guitar man]

24. The song in my sig line

"Why Don't You Kiss MY Ass for a Change" By Rockin' Dopsie Jr.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Brain Damage/ Eclipse by Pink Floyd, Ripple by the Dead

And I want a Viking funeral-boat of reeds, my favorite sword at my side, and flaming arrows.

[Tom_Foolery]

26. Martin Briley's "Salt In My Tears" n/t

[TroubleMan]

27. Frankie Beverly & Maze - "Joy & Pain"

Lyrics:

Remember when you first found love how you felt so good
Kind that last forever more so you thought it would
Suddenly the things you see got you hurt so bad
How come the things that make us happy make us sad
Well it seems to me that

Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain

Love can be bitter, love can be sweet
Sometimes devotion and sometimes deceit
The ones that you care for give you so much pain
Oh but it's alright, they're both one in the same

Don't it seem we go through life going up and down
Seems the things that turn you on turn you around
Always hurting each other, if it ain't one thing its another
But when the world is down on you, love's somewhere around
Well it seems to me that

Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain

Over and over you can be sure
There will be sorrow but you will endure
Where there's a flower there's the sun and the rain
Oh and it's wonderful - they're both one in the same

Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain
Joy and pain are like sunshine and rain

__________

My favorite part of it is in bold.

[sendero]

29. "The Big Ship"...

... from "Another Green World" by Brian Eno.

[Dr Fate]

30. "Till I Die" Beach Boys n/t

n/t

[Blue-Jay]

31. "Piper at The Gates Of Dawn" - Van Morrison

Also "The Healing Game" from the same album.

[Dying Eagle]

32. "The End" by The Doors

"This is the End, my only Friend the End."

[Beaverhausen]

34. "Hymn to Her" - Pretenders, and "She Goes On" - Crowded House

Must have lots of music for my passage to the other side

[Dan-W]

77. Oh, yes.

"Hymn to Her" is perfect; it's been my kids' anthem to their mom's memory for many years.

[aQuArius]

35. The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles

[jdonaldball]

36. "Shaving Cream"

"And now that my story is ended,
I hope you are happy with it.
If any of you are offended,
Stick your head in a bucket of
Shhh-aving cream..."

[Deja Q]

37. Is that Rowan Atkinson way in the back there (2nd from left)?

Anyway, I'd probably want "Bad Influence" by the B-52s to be played when I finally snuff it... or "Tell it like it t-i-is". Or maybe "Shiny Happy People". Or "I Think I'm Paranoid". Or "Me in Honey". Or "Welcome to the Terrordome"...

:shrug:

[arwalden]

38. Car Wash -- by Rose Royce............ or............

Something from Moulin Rouge.

[MissMillie]

67. "Heaven" by Talking Heads

You may as well play the entire Talking Heads catalog....

[terrya]

70. "One More for the Road" eom

[Burma Jones]

39. In Order at the Service

Tasteful Bach Organ Music......

Then the Service

Brokedown Palace - The Grateful Dead
I Know You Rider - The Grateful Dead
Soon I Will be Done - Spiritual
Et Expecto (from Mass in b) - JS Bach
Syeeda's Song Flute - John Coltrane
Na Laetha Gael M'Óige - Enya
Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake
Blue, Red and Grey - The Who
Canzon Duodecimi Toni - Giovanni Gabrielli

[Swamp Rat]

40. "second line" played by any neighborhood jazz band

[flamingyouth]

41. LOL - "Highway to Hell" would be perfect for me too

On vinyl, please.:evilgrin:

As a side note, on my way home from making all the cremation/internment arrangements for my husband, I was disturbed feeling and "Highway..." came on the radio. I immediately felt much better. It seemed like a sign from above...

...I mean, below.:evilgrin:

[pink-o]

42. How about

Across the Universe or Imagine?

[name not needed]

43. To Live Is To Die by Metallica

[MrSandman]

44. Call Me The Breeze

There ain't no change in the weather

[Zorro]

45. Nature Boy

Nat King Cole.

[medeak]

47. oh....

that's a good one. Love that song!

[medeak]

46. Billie Holiday

God Bless The Child

edited ... forgot Take a Load off Annie...Robbie Robertson and the Band

[NashVegas]

48. "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"

seems fitting enough

[MaryBear]

49. Amazing Grace on bagpipes

That Bobby McFerrin song about the 23rd? Psalm where god is female

and his Don't Worry Be Happy.

And I want people to wear name tags and intro themselves during the service and say how they knew me (assuming anyone comes - lol) . I hate being somewhere, a wedding funeral etc, and everyone is connected to a person and strangers still to each other.

[Endangered Specie]

50. TAPS, 21 Gun salute, Internationale

;)

[fortyfeetunder]

51. Hmmm, guess I'll be cutting a CD

Knowing my family, if I didn't have my funeral arrangements done, they will pick up the old hymnbook...
-

Figure there will only be music because not too much good could be said about me.


Bach - Sheep May Safely Graze
Bach - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Kansas - Dust in the Wind
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Mahler - Adagietto (4th movement) from 5th Symphony in c#

Some songs I personally composed...

Albinoni: Adagio in g minor (brass choir arrangement)
Holst: Venus, from "The Planets"

Exit: New Orleans style - post funeral music: When the Saints Go Marching In, etc.

afterward, a catered barbecue and jazz concert.

[anti_shrub]

52. One guy I went to school with

said he wanted "We've only Just Begun" played at his funeral.

He was just a little odd sometimes.....

[bikebloke]

53. Leave it to fate.

Someone check my Mac in iTunes for the most played song at the time I join the ancestors. That's the tune.

[Richardo]

54. "Angel Band" by Ralph Stanley

It's the last song in "O Brother Where Art Thou?" :)

[pagerbear]

55. 3 settings of Ave Verum Corpus

Mozart
Byrd
Elgar

Also:
Herbert Howells, Like as the hart desireth the waterbrook
Charles V. Stanford, Beati quorum via est
John Ireland, Greater Love


Can you tell I'm a bit of an Anglican church music queen?

[POed_Ex_Repub]

56. Stayin' Alive n/t

[Gogi]

57. Arvo Part's 'Cantus on the Death of Benjamin Britten',

Tavener's 'Song for Athina', Mahler's 'Adagietto', 'Shenandoah' sung by Marilyn Horne or, perhaps, just 'Helen, Hell on Wheels!'.

[Speck Tater]

58. Gabriel Faure's Requiem, opus 48.

[Scottie72]

59. Death's Door (Depeche Mode)

Death's Door

Lead singer: Martin L. Gore
Songwriter: Martin L. Gore
Publishing credit: ©1991 Grabbing Hands Music Ltd/PRS.

Well I'm knocking on Death's door
Will I take my rest, among the blessed
Mother are you waiting
Father are you pacing
I'm coming home

I'm knocking on Death's door
Will I take my rest, in my Sunday best
Mother are you anxious
Father are you gracious
I'm coming home

I've been away too long
For so long you've been strong
I've been away too long
I know that it was wrong
But I'm coming home

Well I'm knocking on Death's door
Will I take my rest, have I passed the test
Mother are you praying
Father I am saying
I'm coming home

[bearfan454]

60. It's a wonderful world by Louie Armstrong.

I like that song.

[JSJ]

61. "knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door" n/t

[Skittles]

62. Pink Floyd's Learning to Fly

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
stretched to the point of no turning back
a flight of fancy on a wind swept field
standing alone my sense reeled
a fatal attraction holding me fast, how
can I escape this irresistable grasp?
can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I
ice is forming on the tips of my wings
unheeded warnings, I tought I thought of everything
no navigator to guide my way home
unladened, empty and turned to stone

a soul in tension that's learning to fly
condition grounded but determined to try
can't keep my eyes from the -circling- skies
tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

above the planet on a wing and a prayer
my grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
across the clouds I see my shadow fly
out of the corner of my watering eye
a dream unthreatened by the morning light
gould blow this soul right through the roof of the night

there's no sensation to compare with this
suspended animation, a state of bliss
can't keep my mind from the circling sky
tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I

[ScreamingMeemie]

63. "Clouds" by Joni Mitchell

I love that song. :hi:

[blindpig]

65. Pindar's Revenge, by Ed Sanders n/t

[BlondieK143]

66. "Time of Your Life" - Green Day

Perfect.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

68. I'll give you 3 guesses

ba da doo bah. ba da doo bah. ba da doo bah......

[gpandas]

69. like a rolling stone n/t

[Screaming Lord Byron]

71. Gotta be 'Jesus built my hotrod'.

That or 'Reverence' by the Jesus and Mary Chain, maybe followed up by an airing of 'Metal Machine Music'.

[nuxvomica]

72. The hamster dance song

Because you hear "Here we go!" followed by "That's it!" and end with "That's all there is to it!" :-)

http://files.deviantart.com/f/2004/125/b/c/hamsterrave.swf

[noonwitch]

73. "I Can't Wait To Meet You" by Macy Gray

"I do my best to do right, got to get to the way up high
Oh, my Lord, I can't wait to meet You.
Love the life You've given but I'm looking forward to the day I die
Oh, my Lord, I can't wait to meet You".

[BarbaRosa]

74. Good Shepherd

Jefferson Airplane

[ellie]

75. Ecstasy by New Order

It's from Power, Corruption & Lies. I have told everyone close to me of my wishes. We'll see if they play it.

[maxpower]

76. Find the River - R.E.M.

[truthspeaker]

78. I was going to say "The Stolen Child" by the Waterboys

which is adapted from a Yeats poem

"There he comes, a human child
To the water and the wild
With a faerie hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand"

But I like "Highway to Hell" better.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

79. Speaking of the Waterboys, 'This is the Sea' would work.

[Dan-W]

80. "We're All Alone" by Boz Scaggs. n/t