What song would you like played at your funeral?

pachebel's cannon, my recording of it of me playing it on the guitar.

When I was younger, I wanted "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" by Elton John.

Now I want Amazing Grace by Cecelia with the dolphins. I know that sounds strange, but it's like the dolphins answer her and her voice is pure.

I hate to say it, but probably "Fish heads" by the Chipmunks. it's our family wedding song, and it makes me laugh!
I'll try to think of a serious one for you, though.

I have already recored a cassette which I would like to be played at my funeral. It says "Well, I have passed on, and you are all stuck here..." There is a brief pause, while everyone takes this in, followed by about five minutes of maniacal laughter, until I start wheezing and crying at their misfortune.

Really have to think about this...

This song was running through my head all through my uncle's memorial service, and I'd like to have it as a memory for my friends to have of me ...

"They Can't Take That Away From Me"
music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin

[Our romance won't end on a sorrowful note
Though by the morrow, you're gone.
The song is ended, but as the song-writer wrote,
The melody lingers on.
They may take you from me.
I'll miss your fond caress.
But though they take you from me
I'll still possess...]
(intro used in SHALL WE DANCE (1937) but not in THE BARKLEYS OF BROADWAY (1949))

The way you wear your hat.
The way you sip your tea.
The memory of all that
Oh, no. They can't take that away from me.

The way your smile just beams.
The way you sing off-key.
The way you haunt my dreams.
No, no. They can't take that away from me.

We may never, never meet again
On the bumpy road to love.
But I'll always, always keep
The memory of...

The way you hold your knife.
The way we danced till three.
The way you changed my life.
No, no. They can't take that away from me.
No, they can't take that away from me.

The river flows
It flows to the sea
Wherever that river goes
That's where I want to be
Flow river flow
Let your waters wash down
Take me from this road
To some other town

All he wanted
Was to be free
And that's the way
It turned out to be
Flow river flow
Let your waters wash down
Take me from this road
To some other town

Flow river flow
Past the shaded tree
Go river, go
Go to the sea
Flow to the sea

The river flows
It flows to the sea
Wherever that river goes
That's where I want to be
Flow river flow
Let your waters wash down
Take me from this road
To some other town

i pity you

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anyways I thought of somthing else...

I'd like the bagpipes version of 'amazing grace' (I am sweedish/scottish) and then with that playing i'd like someone significant in my life my mother wife or best friend to be reading the poem 'Footprints'

awesome poem that i read at my grandmothers funeral with my face drenched in tears. nothing has impacted me more than that moment in my life.

SCoates,
Well, I liked it! Hey, it's your funeral! :wink:

Verdi's Triumphal March from Aida? Nice and loud!

I don't think I'll be having a funeral. Maybe some pals will get together. I used to think it had to be a Stones piece, but that's now been done in the movies. Now I like a couple of Callas' renditions of Gluck, on her La Divina 2 cd, but I don't think that would go with the buffet... Um, skip the buffet.

Maybe I'll posthumously mail some cd's to be played while the listener drives or hikes through the forest. Perhaps someone will deposit my ashes there. Che sera'. If there are a few people, they can have a picnic..

I am getting to like Faure's Requiem, though that's not quite it.

Liked your choice, Dys.

"Abschied" by R.A. Schumann (not a song but a piano piece Op.82).

There are some instrumental irish pieces with the uillean pipes, the saddest music ever.
Dust in the wind and Flower Duet.

"Do a little dance, make a little love.. get down tonight, get down tonight....."

That's sooo my dirge. That and the hamster dance song.

"a little song
a little dance
a little seltzer
down your pants"

I like "It's so hard to say good-bye to Yesterday" by Boyz to Men...Then a couple of selections from Purple Rain..like "Let's Go Crazy" "Nicki". Hopefully they will be having a party and remembering all the good times...

I would like them to play "It's Raining Men." I just hope I die in some way that would be fitting to that song.

"Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer" -- the Bessie Smith version.

I'LL HAVE THE LAST WALTZ WITH YOU
TWO LONELY PEOPLE TOGETHER
I FELL IN LOVE WITH YOU
THE LAST WALTZ SHOULD LAST FOREVER

truth
Tchaikovski's 1812 Overture.