Funeral Music

cars · Post by **cars** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:24 pm

Here's an interesting thought. If you could choose, what music would you like played at your funeral? :-2

Atheists maybe would like "Road to Nowhere"!

Myself: I'd like Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to heaven"!

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:07 am

At the funeral I actually don't want any music which is weird for me as much as I love the stuff. But at the afterwake, I want "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," "Mighty Dark To Travel" and a whole mess of bluegrass songs through the night. :-6

kayleneaussie · Post by **kayleneaussie** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:08 am

wind beneath my wings by elton john

Post by **spot** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:12 am

The music to Give Me the Flowers, played quietly on the organ as I'm being carried into the chapel. Not the words, that would be unsubtle. Something to leave by as the curtains close about me at the crematorium, that's a different matter.

shelbell · Post by **shelbell** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:24 am

"Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion

That song came out right before my dad died. It was too late to add it to the funeral, so I just listened to it about a million times. This was over 12yrs ago and it still makes me well up sometimes. I'm hoping my family feels the same about me when I die.

Victoria · Post by **Victoria** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:23 am

Unchained melody and The first time ever I saw you face (Roberta Flack)

OH wants Wager ride of the Valkeries

and my mum want us to play the hokey cokey and do the dance! left foot in left foot out, do the hokey cokey and shake it all about, I can see it now!

qsducks · Post by **qsducks** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:29 am

Victoria;969834 wrote: Unchained melody and The first time ever I saw you face (Roberta Flack)

OH wants Wager ride of the Valkeries

and my mum want us to play the hokey cokey and do the dance! left foot in left foot out, do the hokey cokey and shake it all about, I can see it now!

Oh yeah they call that the Hokey Pokey over here.:guitarist Now, it's in my head:wah:

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:31 am

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:56 am

"Shot down in a blaze of Glory" by Bon Jovi...

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:01 am

I was thinking more along the lines of "Somebody's watching me" by Warmen...

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:03 am

One of my uncles requested polka music, his favorite kind of music. I like bluegrass with lots of fiddle tunes.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:12 am

K.Snyder;969941 wrote: I was thinking more along the lines of "Somebody's watching me" by Warmen...

Was it Warmen or Rockwell who made the original?...

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:14 am

fuzzy butt;970086 wrote: Is this a joke thread? oh sorry .

Hoppy the more fiddles stops me coming back to haunt :wah::wah::wah:

Anytime people speak in reference to their own mortality there is bound to be a bit of humor in it...How else are we to come to terms with the fact that we're going to be thrown in a hole and buried with dirt 6 feet under the ground or set ablaze?...

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:15 am

Rockwell. 1984.

K.Snyder · Post by **K.Snyder** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:20 am

RedGlitter;970098 wrote: Rockwell. 1984.

Ok thank you...

Then I would want the tune of "Someone's watching me" by Rockwell played over my dead corpse...

In fact, I don't care what's done to me...

I'd be dead!!!...

(Only joking)...

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:27 am

I don't want shown because I don't want a bunch of people standing around saying, "She looks good". I'm freaken dead! How good can I look? :wah: That seriously drove me bonkers until my mom died. I walked into the funeral home and was totally stunned that I was not looking at the 70 pound body I had seen for the last few months. She was beautiful just like she was before she became ill. Anyways, a friend sang a gospel song called "If You Could See Me Now". That song should be played at every funeral.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:33 am

Agreed Peg. No one'll be seeing me either. If they cant make the effort while Im alive, they don't get to see me dead. Besides I won't be embalmed so that sorta finalizes it.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:33 am

Hi Uncle Kram

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:01 am

Easy.

Eva Cassidy - fields of gold.

Then as the curtains close cant think of anything more apt than....

Elizabeth my dear. :wah:

flopstock · Post by **flopstock** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 8:04 am

miley cyrus - i miss you:guitarist

Cow Patty · Post by **Cow Patty** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:49 am

My sister-in-law has already told us all when her time comes around she wants the songs "Time In A Bottle" and "Unchained Melody" played.

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:31 pm

"Love's Theme" by the Love Unlimited Orchestra. I want folks to feel good at my funeral.

TheNewDG · Post by **TheNewDG** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:46 pm

Another One Bites The Dust

Queen

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:51 pm

a funeral is a ritual for the living ,not the dead. I dont really have any preferences..the only thing i have asked of my family is dont spend any money on a toombstone..just a small marker if you have a mind to visit my resting place.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:55 pm

I Can Only Imagine

Midnight Cry

When We All Get to Heaven

Those are what I selected, won't be around to know if they play them.......

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:11 pm

Victoria;969834 wrote: Unchained melody and The first time ever I saw you face (Roberta Flack)

OH wants Wager ride of the Valkeries

and my mum want us to play the hokey cokey and do the dance! left foot in left foot out, do the hokey cokey and shake it all about, I can see it now!
OOh good choice Victoria. Yes, Roberta Flack for my husband & Unchained melody for my late dad.

A wierd subject but i found myself buying my funeral songs on e bay very recently.

The Verve's " The drugs don't work any more"--definately. The Verve's "Bittersweet symphony", The Stones "Ruby Tuesday".

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:15 pm

jimbo;970666 wrote: pretty much my thoughts exactly gupperino

a grave is just an open wound of the mind ,if i'm to be remembered it will be in the hearts and minds (and my creditors audits:D) of the people that new me not on a lump of stone standing in a cemetry

put me in a compost heap so i can give something back to mother earth

:wah::wah: thats a good idea Jimbo..i think i would like the idea of fertilizing the flowers..

Post by **spot** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:21 pm

guppy;970686 wrote: :wah::wah: thats a good idea Jimbo..i think i would like the idea of fertilizing the flowers..

You're ill equipped and overambitious.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:21 pm

spot;970786 wrote: You're ill equipped and overambitious.

well i have been told i can be a little **** sometimes..:p

Hope6 · Post by **Hope6** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 12:01 am

I love music! and having sung in the choir at my church for years, i want our choir to sing at my funeral, and i want lots of songs, but the one i have picked out so far is a beautiful hymn called Beulah Land!

i would also like them to play Angel by Sarah McLachlan!

Beulah Land

I'm kind of homesick for a country

To which I've never been before.

No sad goodbyes will there be spoken

for time won't matter anymore.

(Chorus)

Beulah Land, I'm longing for you

and some day on thee I'll stand.

There my home shall be eternal.

Beulah Land -- Sweet Beulah Land

I'm looking now across the river

where my faith will end in sight.

There's just a few more days to labor.

Then I will take my heavenly flight

Chorus)

Beulah Land, I'm longing for you

and some day on thee I'll stand.

There my home shall be eternal.

Beulah Land -- Sweet Beulah Land

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:41 am

My Way and Some Where Over The Rainbow.

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:41 am

Highland Cathedral

Annie Lennox - Into the west

Puccini's prelude sinfonica (listening to it now

)

or -

Smoke gets in your eyes

Down, down, deeper and down

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 6:47 am

ugh, I don't want a funeral. :-3