What song do you want played at your funeral?

[bloodyjack]

At the moment I'm leaning toward "Some Other Spring" as performed by Billie Holiday.

[Endangered Specie]

1. The Internationale

followed by Springtime for Hitler ;)

[Elidor]

6. Bombs falling from the skies again

Deutchland is on the rise again!

[Mojambo]

2. When I'm Gone - Phil Ochs

It's a no doubter.

[Barad Simith]

3. "Persian Love" by Holger Czukay

[CanuckAmok]

4. "Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd

n/t

[HEyHEY]

5. Louis Louis - the Kingsmen

[pamela]

7. For A Dancer by Jackson Browne

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know

[Book Lover]

8. Bron Y Ur - Led Zeppelin

The instrumental on the third side of Physical Graffiti; that's for the entrance. The music for the thoughtful interlude will be the second movement from the New World Symphony, and the exit music (and I'm not kidding) will be the ending music to Mystery Science Theater 3000.

[St. Jarvitude]

9. I want a rave funeral

Techno music, flashing lights, X, and my corpse, dressed in a suit, suspended from the ceiling by wires.

[jdots]

10. " Get up and Dance you Dumb Putz "

By Rusty Chops

[burrowowl]

11. Ubi caritas

Libera me and the Internationale!

[morillon]

12. "High Hopes" by Pink Floyd

Followed by "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits, then "The Two Trees" and "The Old Ways" by Loreena McKennitt

[KTM]

13. Not mine - but the coolest thing...

My old HS Music teacher was previously a big-band/jazz hot ticket.. knew all the big guys, but was really a great guy himself... a little roly-poly greek man.

Anyway, he was a great teacher, a figure in East Coast music, and a fabulous woodwind player.

His funeral was held in a small chapel inside one of the Harvard area's cemeteries... so many people showed up, people were amassed outside the chapel, pouring out in to the green trees and lawn all around.

The funeral service was lovely, and at the end, his wife rose and approached the altar. She said he had asked her to do this for him should the day come, then placed a cassette into a deck wired into a basic sound system...

After a few moments of deepening silence, the soft strains of Amazing Grace, played solo on the clarinet of a master, wafted through the chapel, out the windows, and into the sunlight - the crowd was so quiet you could hear it echoing perfectly through the cemetery.. it was magical. It was perfect.

He played his own funeral, and it was perhaps one of the most memorable and moving experiences of my life.

[Seabiscuit]

14. "At Last"

[Seabiscuit]

18. And...

Tic Toc McGlocklin will preside over the ceremony before they send me to the glue factory.

[CanuckAmok]

15. I changed my mind: "Unkle Fucka" by Terrence and Philip

[Sapphocrat]

16. Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
I hope you had the time of your life.

-- Green Day

[realisticphish]

17. Sample In A Jar, by Phish

my favorite Phish song, and i dont want people to be TOO depressed

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Dukakis88]

19. Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" -- and lock the doors until it's over.

[Atlas Mugged]

26. Geesh!

Not only did I buy that when it came out - I used to listen to it all the time. I've noticed that it's available on amazon.com and I'm getting tempted.

[ilovenicepeople]

20. BEE GEES

Staying Alive

[SeveneightyWhoa]

21. "Let Go" by Frou Frou

Great song.

[donheld]

22. Somewhere Out There

written by James Horner, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil

Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight

Somewhere out there someone's saying a prayer
That we'll find one another in that big somewhere out there

And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star

And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky

Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true

[Ladyhawk]

23. I want my body donated to science.

I don't want the right-wing fundies to use it to further their warped view of the world. You wouldn't catch me dead at a fundy funeral...*thinks*...was that supposed to be funny?

Plus, my would be a good body on which to conduct experiments. Maybe scientists could use my brain to figure out what causes Depression. They could use my pancreas, etc. to do research on diabetes.

[Skittles]

24. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd

nt

[dorktv]

25. National Anthem. Yeah I know...but I love that song

Oh say can you see by the dawn's early light....

[NamVetsWeeLass]

27. I would say When I'm Old and Wise by Alan Parsons Project

But I stole that off someone in my past. I would have to say Ride on By AcDc.

[Cuban_Liberal]

28. "Ave Maria", sung a capella in Latin

I think it's absolutely beautiful.

:)

[tsakshaug]

29. keep me in your heart for awhile

Zevon

[Danmel]

30. Changes by Phil Ochs

Sit by my side, come as close as the air
Share in a memory of gray
Wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes
Green leaves of summer turn red in the fall
To brown and to yellow they fade
And then they have to die, trapped within
The circle time parade of changes
Scenes of my young years were warm in my mind
Visions of shadows that shine
'Til one day I returned and found they were the
Victims of the vines of changes
The world's spinning madly, it drifts in the dark
Swings through a hollow of haze
A race around the stars, a journey through
The universe ablaze with changes
Moments of magic will glow in the night
All fears of the forest are gone
But when the morning breaks they're swept away by
Golden drops of dawn, of changes
Passions will part to a strange melody
As fires will sometimes burn cold
Like petals in the wind, we're puppets to the silver
Strings of souls, of changes
Your tears will be trembling, now we're somewhere else
One last cup of wine we will pour
And I'll kiss you one more time, and leave you on
The rolling river shores of changes
So sit by my side, come as close as the air
Share in a memory of gray
Wander in my words, dream about the pictures
That I play of changes




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[China_cat]

31. Same as was played at my wedding

"One More Saturday Night" by the Grateful Dead.