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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumswhat song for your funeral?
or Viking burial or whatever?
I'm torn between "Long Ride Home" by Patty Griffiin or "Powderfinger" by Neil Young for mine.
elleng
(130,980 posts)ms liberty
(8,581 posts)One of the most beautiful songs ever written:
Croney
(4,661 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Ill Fly Away
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Cant do the search for the song now, but - it would be awesome!
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,014 posts)TlalocW
(15,384 posts)TlalocW
sl8
(13,803 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
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Like that's gonna happen.
if I can't get that, I'll settle for this:
unblock
(52,257 posts)Why ruin a good song by associating it with my death?
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)"Why ruin a good song by associating it with my death?"
Brilliant, unblock. I couldn't agree more.
DinahMoeHum
(21,795 posts)(hurricanes notwithstanding)
"Cut the body loose" and jump in the line.
livetohike
(22,147 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)By Alice in Chains. That would be one. Also, Seasons by Chris Cornell.
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,795 posts). . .and the lyrics to be printed on the hand card.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,862 posts)we sang The Parting Glass.
Apparently in Ireland it's more something that is sung at a wake, but it was completely appropriate.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)Never heard that.
Squinch
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(33,643 posts)Squinch
(50,956 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,519 posts)It's got a little bit of everything on it.
Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)"Flying Mother Nature's Silver Sea to a new home in the sun."
And "You Can't Always Get What You Want," by the Rolling Stones
(Inspired by the movie "The Big Chill"
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)safeinOhio
(32,690 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I have a playlist and there are a few Zevon.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)When you mentioned it and I heard the song in my head ...
Which is never a bad thing
Leith
(7,809 posts)The entire thing, long version. It's only about 10 minutes.
The Pogues If I Should Fall from Grace with God would be pretty good, too.
edbermac
(15,941 posts)Funerals are so boring...LET'S ROCK!!!
demosincebirth
(12,541 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)It'll be fun.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Remember that when you get to the Pearly Gates.
It was the Hokey Pokey all along.
Laffy Kat
(16,383 posts)Anon-C
(3,430 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)mpcamb
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I read a book of his a few years ago and he describes the car from his first band's trip to Toronto that died en route which is the source for that song. Always liked the song -poignant piece of writing.
byronius
(7,395 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)But the song I'm hoping gets played while my friends and family get drunk somewhere is:
Tikki
(14,557 posts)Tikki
mentalsolstice
(4,461 posts)maxrandb
(15,334 posts)HeartachesNhangovers
(814 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,526 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Dulcinea
(6,647 posts)consider_this
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It's by Enya, but you have to hear it on a good stereo and the words are perfect.
I have another i will post too from a completely different genre.
consider_this
(2,203 posts)Trumpet and organ
this recording by Michael Murray and Rolf Smedvig :
and you have to jump to 46:30 to hear this (as the YouTube is an entire album)- it just feels to me like the spirit flowing out to the immense expanse of eternity
TexasBushwhacker
(20,204 posts)If it were up to me they would just have a party/picnic with good grub, good drink and good music. I like this one:
sl8
(13,803 posts)What have you heard?
NNadir
(33,528 posts)Failing that, someone can find a cheap boombox and play Josh White's "Lord Have Mercy."
They should put the body out in a recycling bin, and drop my clothes off at a shelter on the way back from lunch at Taco Bell's, bean and cheese burritos only.
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Codeine
(25,586 posts)ret5hd
(20,501 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,030 posts)mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Iggo
(47,558 posts)There's a million versions by a million people over on YouTube.
Here it is by the man himself.
A-Schwarzenegger
(15,596 posts)Let your soul and spirit fly!
Bayard
(22,103 posts)But I've never given any thought to the matter. I just want to be cremated and tossed in my garden with the rest of the compost.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)The Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
Tom Petty - Learning To Fly
jg10003
(976 posts)One evening as the sun went down
And the jungle fire was burning,
Down the track came a hobo hiking,
And he said, "Boys, I'm not turning
I'm headed for a land that's far away
Besides the crystal fountains
So come with me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey, too
You can paddle all around 'em
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws or picks,
I'ma goin' to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the Turk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
I'll see you all this coming Fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains"
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Worried senior
(1,328 posts)on bagpipes and husband wants Spirit in the Sky.
Duppers
(28,125 posts)This old atheist is doing that for her old Christian mama's funeral in a couple of yrs. She's 92 now and was just admitted into a nursing home days ago.
I expect her to last another couple of yrs.
Worried senior
(1,328 posts)but knowing the background on the person that wrote the song makes me love it even more.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)if not just dumped in the dump.
This is my favorite song of all time in every way lyrics, vocal, guitar, singer/writer, sound, how it makes me feel, era in which it was written, album it appeared on, and every other way.
Gene Clark For a Spanish Guitar. I could listen to this for eternity.
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Wwcd
(6,288 posts)gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)Turbineguy
(37,346 posts)I infer that the funerals of a number of DU Members will be a lot more fun than mine.
I was thinking about the Nocturne from Max Bruch's Serenade for Violin and orchestra Opus 75.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)or
Abu Pepe
(637 posts)elocs
(22,585 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)skypilot
(8,854 posts)underpants
(182,837 posts)Danmel
(4,916 posts)But I'd love a New Orleans jazz second line.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Good for those born in 1948
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cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)Really gorgeous tune, and the folklore related to it involves death. Folk musician Wayne Erbsen has the whole story on his website:
https://nativeground.com/the-hanging-of-fiddlin-joe-coleman/
On the way to his hanging, Coleman reportedly sat on his coffin and played his fiddle as a two-wheeled ox cart slowly carried him to the site where a hastily-built wooden gallows had been constructed. The slow, dirge-like tune that he played has since been known as Colemans March.
Kashkakat v.2.0
(1,752 posts)Ah, my favorite brain soup -
Cream of nowhere
Ooh baby, your asphalt eater hung ten
The hoedads and gremmies say you reached top end
So do the dead, through the lights
The surfin' dead, oooh make it tight
The livin' dead now baby lose their heads
Now baby, doin' the dead
Yeah you're a high-rev hauler with all four on the floor
But your a-bone's busted and you're through the door
So do the dead, juice the Coupe
Come on the livin' dead, ooh you're in the soup
The livin' dead now baby, like I said now baby, do the dead
Now life is short and it's filled with stuff
So let me know baby when you've had enough
Oh do the dead, turn blue
Yeah the surfin' dead, as dead as you
There's nothing on the radio when you're dead
There's nothing at the movie show when you're dead
There's nowhere left for you to go when you're dead
Do the dead, yeah do the dead
Do the dead, surfin' dead
struggle4progress
(118,297 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)Where they're at the bar, going up one-by-one and pouring a shot and toasting the departed.
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donco
(1,548 posts)Is on my list at my funeral.I figure it hits the target.
LSFL
(1,109 posts)Very on the nose for me.
DFW
(54,412 posts)Starting out with Billy Joel's "Vienna"
(Don't you know when the truth is told, you can get what you want or you can just get old)
Followed by the Eagles: "Take It To The Limit"
Followed by Warren Zevon's "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead"
And ending with Bruce Hornsby's "When The Dreaming's Done"
(Of all the girls I've loved, she's the best, she's the one, when the dreaming's done)
As everyone starts to leave, the Beatles' coda to Abbey Road:
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."
phylny
(8,381 posts)I love it.
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catrose
(5,068 posts)Possibly Mozart's Lacrimosa
llmart
(15,540 posts)by Peggy Lee.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...After the Gold Rush.