Name or post a song you want played at your funeral

[Tommy_Carcetti]

I'll start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28w4_cJK8Ss

"Farewell and Goodnight". I can't think of anything more apt. Especially the beautiful piano at the end.

Yeah, predictable me, the Pumpkins fan. But that song gives me the chills everytime I hear it.

[mcctatas]

1. I want a balls out Irish wake so I think this would be top of the list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-I6BYuIjI&feature=related

[SoxFan]

3. A lass after my own heart!

I miss Tommy Makem. He was a staunch Democrat who held fundraising concerts for gubernatorial hopeful Paul McEachern back in the 1980s when it wasn't easy being a NH Democrat.

[mcctatas]

4. I think I have listened to my Makem and Clancy Live CD

so many times that they sound like they are starting to lose their brogue :P

[Rambis]

22. Can't go wrong with this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa2F2RBgyIk&feature=related

God rest Ronnie Drew!

[mcctatas]

25. Except my son's name is Finnegan so that could lead to a

little bit of confusion for the un-initiated :P

[Rambis]

33. My fave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwOmYNvISnM

[SteppingRazor]

2. "Keep Me in Your Heart" by Warren Zevon.

That oughta get the bastards sobbing :)



On edit: Lyrics --

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for awhile

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sometimes when you're doing simple things
around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile

You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on
your blouse
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
When the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you

Engine driver's headed north to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for awhile

These wheels keep turning but they're running out
of steam
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for awhile

Keep me in your heart for awhile

[KamaAina]

42. That would put you in some mighty fine company indeed

witness this tribute to the finest blogger ever to pound a keyboard, New Orleans' H. Ashley Morris, Ph.D., who "logged off" back in April:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOtNLc7M-70

:cry:

[suninvited]

5. Imagine

by John Lennon.

[SteppingRazor]

6. I've heard a couple people drop "In My Life" in conversations about this as well.

Lennon seems good for funerals. ;)

[Spacemom]

14. Good choice

It's one that I picked for my mom's service. I was just a kid, but I remember her crying for days when Lennon was killed.

[badgerpup]

7. I've got a damn playlist...

:P
but I'll give ya three...
Come Sail Away- by Styx
Forever Young- the Rod Stewart cover
The largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony

[dixiegrrrrl]

47. This version of the Largo is perfect...I would like this at my wake.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fryuQVAuASs

[MrCoffee]

8. Lay Me Low - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAnO3CMrqIo

[dawgmom]

9. "For a Dancer" -- Jackson Browne.

For a Dancer, by Jackson Browne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU1rZa8Ur_Q

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I dont remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought youd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now youre nowhere to be found

I dont know what happens when people die
Cant seem to grasp it as hard as I try
Its like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I cant sing
I cant help listening
And I cant help feeling stupid standing round
Crying as they ease you down
cause I know that youd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(theres nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that youve been shown
By everyone youve ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Anothers steps have grown
In the end there is one dance youll 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
Dont 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 youll never know

And…

What a Wonderful World

AND

Keep me in Your Heart for a While – Warren Zevon

[Cults4Bush]

10. "If You Dont Know Me By Now" or "Corn Flake Girl"

maybe even Magical Mystery Tour :)

[Lyric]

11. Rufus Wainwright's version of "Hallelujah"

And Billy Joel's "Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)," for the sake of my son.

Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)

Goodnight my angel, time to close your eyes
And save these questions for another day
I think I know what you've been asking me
I think you know what I've been trying to say
I promised I would never leave you
And you should always know
Wherever you may go
No matter where you are
I never will be far away

Goodnight my angel, now it's time to sleep
And still so many things I want to say
Remember all the songs you sang for me
When we went sailing on an emerald bay
And like a boat out on the ocean
I'm rocking you to sleep
The water's dark
And deep inside this ancient heart
You'll always be a part of me

Goodnight, my angel
Now it's time to dream
And dream how wonderful your life will be
Someday your child may cry
And if you sing this lullabye
Then in your heart
There will always be a part of me

Someday we'll all be gone
But lullabyes go on and on...
They never die
That's how you
And I
Will be

[MissMillie]

12. The entire Talking Heads catalogue

Hell, make a party out of it.


And for goodness sake, don't wait until I'm dead to say how good I look!

[kwassa]

82. "And you may ask yourself: well...how did I get here?"

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the moneys gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

[Spacemom]

13. I played it at my mom's service

and I want it played at mine.

Black Muddy River - Grateful Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GGNb85jRt8

[LostinVA]

15. "Minstrel Boy" (on the pipes, of course) and "Poems, Prayers, and Promises"

[MissMillie]

20. Is that a John Denver song?

:hi:

[LostinVA]

26. Yes!

[susanna]

56. That's one of my favorite John Denver songs.

Great choice. :-)

[Jamastiene]

69. As my second song, I want Rocky Mountain High.

John Denver was great. :D

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. .

[tismyself]

17. Whiter Shade of Pale

[av8rdave]

18. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ

Hoping it will be a long time before it has to be played!

[peace frog]

19. All You Need Is Love

and Dear Prudence - my two favorite Beatles tunes.

[Rambis]

21. "Cannan's Land" From Live at Leeds Kate Rusby

what a voice!

[panhead1961]

23. Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6339525713706217967

[susanna]

57. I'd vote for that one, too.

Wonderful song.

[Arugula Latte]

72. Into the Mystic -- That's one of my favorite songs ever.

:thumbsup:

[PassingFair]

24. "Who Wants to Live Forever" sung by children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-S6_q_VPHw

I expect everyone to cry uncontrollably or
my brothers will show them out.

[dropkickpa]

27. This one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXSky8k22o

[ghostsofgiants]

28. "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead, or anything else...

That your average person would consider wholly inappropriate. "Ace of Spades" would be my top pick though, just for badass points.

[LeftyMom]

59. OMG, that's awesome.

It's too bad that you're younger than me, I totally want to go to your funeral now.

Wait, that sounds kinda wrong...

[seemunkee]

29. Somewhere over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM
My wife and kids already know I want this.

[sakabatou]

30. "Farewell" by Yoko Kanno

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/480180/2601920

I think it's an appropriate song. What do you think?

[QueenOfCalifornia]

31. I made a playlist

called "For My Funeral" about 6 years ago - I keep adding stuff to it. On the list is:

Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground - Willie Nelson

Trouble - Cat Stevens

If You Want To Sing Out - Cat Stevens - I want this one played for my kids because I tell them the same thing all to time. :)

Well, if you want to sing out, sing out
and if you want to be free be free
'cause there's a million things to be
you know that there are, you know that there are

Well, if you want to live high, live high
and if you want to live low, live low
'cause there's a million ways to go
you know that there are, you know that there are

You can do what you want
the opportunity's on
And if you find a new way
you can do it today
you can make it all true
and you can make it a new, you see
ahaha it's easy, ahaha you wan't me me to know

Well, if you want to say yes, say yes
and if you want to say no, say no
'cause there's a million ways to go
you know that there are, you know that there are

Well if you want to be me, be me
and if you want to be you, be you
'cause there's a million things to do
you know that there are, you know that there are

refrain
If you want to sing out, sing out
and if you want to be free be free
'cause there's a million things to be
you know that there are, you know that there are

[merh]

32. from chorus line

It says it all - what I did for love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXW480B4ENs

[Bake]

34. Rocky Top and Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Played by a whole slew of banjo pickers. Call it Banjopalooza! Or Ban Jovi.

Bake

[Ishoutandscream2]

35. "I'm too Sexy for my Shirt"

[Haole Girl]

36. There will, hopefully, be no funeral for me

Told hubby he could throw a party and everyone can drink as much as they want... and he should play all happy songs (and a little Gordon Lightfoot, too).

I also told him if he has a funeral in my honor I will come back to haunt him!

[rug]

37. Three Little Birds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjtbhmQhsXg

[underpants]

38. Lovin' Cup by the Stones

[Aristus]

39. These two:

"Going Home" by Mark Knopfler. If they wanted to play the scene from the movie, too, that would be great.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm-ZHUfCTwk

And of course...:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu2hGLjBmKs

[Oeditpus Rex]

40. Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' in its entirety

[KamaAina]

41. The Martian national anthem

guess I can't die until we colonize it and then they set up their own government :evilgrin:

[Shell Beau]

43. Another One Bites the Dust!

Nah, I am boring. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes!

[lost-in-nj]

44. Into the west by Annie Lennox (the ending from LOTR-RotK)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24fGmWG6kpg




lost

[RoyGBiv]

49. Nods approvingly ...

I guess it's good I won't know what's played at my funeral because no one I know would actually play this.

It's rather depressing to realize how poorly people know me.

[tekisui]

45. Tracy Chapman-Say Hallelujah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcl7GWdnks8

[fNord]

46. Here is the short list....

"Fly Me to the Moon" Frank Sinatra
"One More Cup Of coffee" Bob Dylan
"The Rainbow Connection" Kermit the Frog


And if some one plays amazing grace I will jump outa that box and kick the shit out of them. It's a nice song and all, I just cant stand it at funerals.

[XemaSab]

48. Parting of the Sensory

by Modest Mouse.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

50. Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8

[Ava]

65. i love that version of the song

[Arugula Latte]

74. That was played at my dad's funeral.

For some reason it is very comforting.

[qwertyMike]

51. My son and I are working on a DVD

Full Circle -Loreena McKennit
Handel's Largo

for the soppy bits

then
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
followed by mayhem.

My ashes and my voice will be there

[liberaltrucker]

52. "Stairway to Heaven"

Or "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound". Matters not to me. I'll be dead. :P

[zanne]

53. "Ripple" by the Dead.

It's written in my Final Wishes.

[jeff30997]

54. Queen - Who wants to live forever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4ZOxpu2rs

From the movie Highlander.Great song.

[Lubernaut]

55. My Pal Foot-Foot by the Shaggs.

[merh]

68. a belated welcome to DU

I love the image in your sig so I checked out your website.

I am in awe of your work - it is wonderful.

Wow - I envy such talent. :hi:

[Lubernaut]

70. Thanks!

Such nice words are much appreciated, especially after a brutal day of forging steel!

[merh]

71. You so deserve the compliments.

and that website is incredible too.

Sit back and relax - no more forging tonight, you can always go bicker in GDP and wish you hadn't let the forging. :rofl:

[BlueJazz]

58. So Danco Samba

[susanna]

60. "Fields of Gold" (Eva Cassidy version)...

It's beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnucawyfE8k

[PaddyBlueEyes]

61. These Two

This Played by these guys...



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVYO9wPVeI






Going Home by Mary Fahl...

They say there's a place
where dreams have all gone
They never said where
but I think I know
It's miles through the night
just over the dawn
on the road that will take me home

I know in my bones
I've been here before
The ground feels the same
though the land's been torn
I've a long way to go
The stars tell me so
on this road that will take me home

Love waits for me 'round the bend
Leads me endlessly on
Surely sorrows shall find their end
and all our troubles will be gone
And I'll know what I've lost
and all that I've won
when the road finally takes me home

And when I pass by
don't lead me astray
Don't try to stop me
Don't stand in my way
I'm bound for the hills
where cool waters flow
on this road that will take me home

Love waits for me 'round the bend
Leads me endlessly on
Surely sorrows shall find their end
and all our troubles will be gone
And we'll know what we've lost
and all that we've won
when the road finally takes me home

I'm going home
I'm going home
I'm going home

[mcctatas]

76. Beautiful...

:hug:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

77. It pales in comparison

:hug:

[mcctatas]

81. ...

you are teh awesome!

:hug:
:loveya:

[Unvanguard]

62. The "Internationale."

Beautiful, beautiful song.

[stewartcolbert08]

63. Leave Out All the Rest by linkin park

I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared

After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here

So if you're asking me
I want you to know


When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest


Don't be afraid
I've taken my beating
I've shared what I made

I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you

So if you're asking me
I want you to know


When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest


Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are


When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed

Don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory

Leave out all the rest
Leave out all the rest

Forgetting
All the hurt inside
You've learned to hide so well

Pretending
Someone else can come and save me from myself
I can't be who you are
I can't be who you are

[Ava]

64. in my life - the beatles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym0x3vTw6yc

[Jamastiene]

66. Song and lyrics at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFZF502hF4&feature=related


Lyrics:
Deep inside the forest
there's a door into another land,
here is our life and home.
We are staying
here forever in the beauty of this place
all along, we keep on hoping...

Maybe,
there's a world
where we don't have to run,
and maybe,
there's a time we'll call our own,
living free in harmony and majesty,
take me home, take me home.

Walking through a land
where every living thing is beautiful.
Why does it have to end?
We are calling
all so sadly on the whispers of the wind
as we send a dying message.

Maybe,
there's a world
where we don't have to run,
and maybe,
there's a time we'll call our own,
living free in harmony and majesty,
take me home, take me home.

There's a world
where we don't have to run,
and maybe,
there's a time we'll call our own,
living free in harmony and majesty,
take me home, take me home.

[Roon]

67. He's gone..by the dead

I don't like the the youtube version. Prefer the Europe 72 version.

[quakerboy]

73. Dont want a funeral

What to be disected for science, then the disposition of my estate to be determined by who can find the most parts. Play any 80's songs you prefer as you search.

[emilyg]

75. Memories.

[PVnRT]

78. "Rock You Like A Hurricane"

I want my pallbearers to carry me out like I'm a pro wrestler going to the ring. Lot of lasers, smoke machines, scantily-clad women. Then I get a funeral pyre that everyone cooks hot dogs on. Plenty of Pabst to go around. Fuck yeah.

[Deep13]

79. That song that goes...

..."All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me. All I ask of dying is to go naturally. And when I die and when I'm gone, there'll be one child more to carry on...."

[cloudbase]

80. "Out of the Picture"

Son Volt

ETA link to the song: http://www.lyricsdownload.com/son-volt-out-of-the-picture-lyrics.html

[Tikki]

83. These two for sure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOkhK8KkX3c
"Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Beebop)"....Q-feel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ5LmQmQZqg
"Time After Time".....Cyndi Lauper



Tikki

[meegbear]

84. Pink Floyd - Brain Damaged / Eclipse ...

I want it played at the plot and when the line "All that is gone" is sung, I want the casket lowered into the ground.

[LoZoccolo]

85. "Don't Go Away" by Oasis n/t