MUSIC FOR YOUR FUNERAL

Today, this is what I want. Next year, who knows?

Three songs?

I've only got one lined up, but I'm hoping that any service for me will be extremely short - weddings are bad enough, but funerals/wakes are too long.

I picked this after my uncle's service - when my aunt had a dj playing a lovely selection of classical music she liked



2 more?

will have to mull that over

( I think I know the musicians ... let's see if they have something appropriate)

Start off with an introduction to reflect on the meaning of my life



Morph into a dirge for my dearly departed best friend and roommate who I hope to be reunited in the great whatever.



Ending with an upnote



and a warning



Rap

I think we had a thread about this a lot of years ago, on this site or another. I think I posted on it. I figure I've changed my mind, either way. Back later after I cogitate.

I'm unlikely to have a funeral, but I wouldn't mind friends and family playing some of my favorites in their own good time of remembering.

Ok, I'll start a list. I'd want Silver Threads Among the Gold by the Fureys.. my mother used to sing that to me when I was very little. This popped into my memory when EuroCelticYankee added it to the WA2K thread.

One of a very few Dylan songs I like, but Id choose Zevon's version

Oe of the really dumb songs at todays service was "Fanfare for the Common Man". Totally inappropriate for my friend who died .

You should memorialize your choices lest some one (like my ife ) would pick em. Shed play Alison Krauss and Union STation or someother big hat singers.

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Several versions out there familiar by Blind Lemon Jefferson and I sort of like the Mavis Staples version as well.


Nothing would be complete without Van Ronk, today I'd go with Sunday Street, tomorrow might be something other of his.


can't come by a third for now, maybe later.


Fact is my decisions on this change daily and I don't really give a flying fig what gets played or doesn't. One of the best services was the one for my father where there wasn't a single note of music. A few short comments, then loaded him into the hearse and off to Pinelawn we headed where they lowered him down down down into the soggy autumn ground.

Then again, I don't want a funeral, seems kind of silly and senseless since I'd rather be donated for scientific research.

I don't want no stinkin' music.

I want this...

The way you're remembered has more to do with the needs of those who miss you. I say let them remember you in the way they see fit.. If you're gone who cares!

Here's the old thread, not meant as a supplanter, but for added enjoyment -

http://able2know.org/topic/59847-1

On my choices, I'll wait before posting more, need to pick and choose.

Sweet if your relatives can relate.

I believe that's why the maoris always had an abundance of bodies upon which to hone their HAKA skills. In the meantime they were getting shot by enemies with guns.

That would be ok for a biker funeral. Although a biker funeral I once attended had everyone quaff a Yuengling

There is no right answer (as in many other threads herein) ALLL WELCOME.

The funeral home where we went to pick out his coffin had several Philadelphia Eagles caskets. Where the Eagles logo was screened onto the casket. I never asked whether the inside had cable because my friends wife was there.
Im kinda glad I can be rid of her though, she is a real effort.
One of them" never shut up types"

Actually, they could.

In the meantime, this is my so called fantasy funeral concept for me and I'll pick among the musical experiences that got to me in my life; they are varied.

I get it. If you think it would help them through the grieving process..it's all good.

I am not worried about that, since I won't be having a funeral. That doesn't mean we aren't close.
I wouldn't mind my family and friends having some list of music that has meant a lot to me. Hard to just throw that into a letter.

Snort - here's a horrible thought - I could ask some of my fifty year friends what they want to be played at their funeral or mine. (No way)

The youngest person who would really miss me has a wide range of music she likes, including some of my old cds. I simply know she'd pick one of those, and not rap.

Or if she did the rap would make sense to both of us.

Its funny that weve had very few classical or romantic or baroque music selections.

maybe this...