| SONGS FOR YOUR FUNERAL
Posted: 1/21/2006 2:34:40 PM | | In my Life by the Beatles/Scotland the Brave and Amasing Grace on the bagpipes/Old Rugged Cross by Elvis | |
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| SONGS FOR YOUR FUNERAL
Posted: 1/21/2006 5:59:02 PM | When I Get Where I am Going by Brad Paisley
When I get where I'm going
On the far side of the sky
The first thing that I'm gonna do
Is spread my wings and fly
I'm gonna land beside a lion
And run my fingers through his mane
Or I might find out what it's like
To ride a drop of rain
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
I will shed the sins and struggles
I have carried all these years
And I'll leave my heart wide open
I will love and have no fear
Yeah when I get where I'm going
Don't cry for me down here
I'm gonna walk with my grand daddy
And he'll match me step for step
And I'll tell him how I missed him
Every minute since he left
Then I'll hug his neck
So much pain and so much darkness
In this world we stumble through
All these questions I can't answer
So much work to do
But when I get where I'm going
And I see my maker's face
I'll stand forever in the light
Of his amazing grace
Yeah when I get where I'm going
There'll be only happy tears
Hallelujah
I will love and have no fear
When I get where I'm going
Yeah when I get where I'm going | |
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| SONGS FOR YOUR FUNERAL
Posted: 1/23/2006 2:03:31 AM | I already told my brother, over 15 years ago, to play: "Worried Blues" Doc Watson version, "Brokedown Palace" by the Grateful Dead, and "Little Martha" by Brother Duane "Skydog" Allman &****y Betts of the Allman Brothers Band. Catering by Jack Daniel, of course. And plant dog roses on my grave! Out! | |
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| SONGS FOR YOUR FUNERAL
Posted: 1/23/2006 2:23:59 AM | | why should i care what is played at my funeral, ill be dead. why should anyone care?? this is STUPID. | |
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Joined: 1/9/2005
Msg: 206 | |
| SONGS FOR YOUR FUNERAL
Posted: 1/23/2006 6:52:46 AM |
why should i care what is played at my funeral, ill be dead. why should anyone care??
Have you ever been to a funeral?
Choosing pieces of music for one's own funeral service is not only not stupid, it's part of what people do when they make their preferences known as to how they want things "handled". It's no more stupid than specifying cremation over burial.
You may be too young to think about your own death, but trust me, ....it's going to happen one day. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2006 9:18:37 AM | Recently, my girlfriend's husband died. She asked me if I'd burn her some CD's of 60's music for her husband's Wake. She wanted to have music playing in the background.
That was their favorite era for music.
I was more than happy to do that for her. I put 72 songs on three CD's for her.
I didn't attend the Wake, but she told me that BEFORE the Wake she had listened to the 3 CD's. She said it brought back so many memories of both her husband and her teenage years. It was very bittersweet.
She also told me it was a huge hit at the Wake and the best gift I could have given to her.
It was the music those people had listened to when those memories of my girlfriend's husband were being born. It inspired stories and adventures to be shared with one another.
That music was VERY much a part of my girlfriend's husband's life and also the lives of the people who attended the Wake. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2006 11:25:08 AM | | I would have all of my fave music at the funeral..which would have to be held on the beach around a huge bonfire. A celebration of life, not the mourning of death. | |
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Posted: 1/23/2006 10:05:19 PM | My dad has said he wants "When The Saints Go Marching IN", and I agree. A nice upbeat Dixieland Jazz version. I will try and fulfill that request when the time comes.
When my brother passed away in '79, we played "Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M. | |
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Posted: 1/24/2006 7:19:04 PM | The Long and Winding Road-the Beatles
I want someone to stand up and do a piano solo for me....and perhaps someone could sing something too....How's about Imagine by the beatles..or That song from Ghost...
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana when they're walking my coffin out the hearse...
Hikari by Utada Hikaru when they're lowering me into the grave...or something else thats totally random and not in English. | |
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Posted: 1/25/2006 12:03:41 AM | Who Wants To Live Forever by queen beginning of service
in the middle i want La Japonaise and Ensueno by Freddie Mercury/Montserrat Caballe
Guide Me Home Freddie Mercury/Montserrat Caballe as they are walkin my coffin to the hearse | |
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Joined: 1/24/2006
Msg: 214 | |
| SONGS FOR YOUR FUNERAL
Posted: 1/31/2006 12:55:28 PM | | one tune i heard in the days when i was partying and liked hardcore called 'burn mother f**ker' by dj brisk lol | |
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Posted: 1/31/2006 7:13:52 PM | Natchez Trace-----Pavlovs Dog
Fanfare for the Common Man------Copland
Sniper-----Harry Chapin
The I'm Fixin to Die Rag-----Country Joe and the Fish | |
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Posted: 1/31/2006 8:19:38 PM | a tout le monde is grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!!
Paradise city, guns and roses
somewhere over the rainbow, the original, but sung by somebody new with just as great a voice
I am Scottish in heritage, so OF COURSE Amazing Grace, just the pipes, please, or maybe, just maybe, the dropkick murphys | |
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Posted: 1/31/2006 8:48:27 PM | OK,OK,
a little off topic but mentioned here several times..."Amazing Grace"
Did you know that the lyrics of this song fit perfectly in the melody of the "Mickey Mouse"theme song.Try it in your heads,even the part where it goes a-m-a-z-i-n-g pause g-r-a-c-e. | |
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Posted: 1/31/2006 8:55:18 PM | Lyric's to White Dove by Lynyrd Skynyrd:
White dove sittin’ on a blackberry bush
Is there any questioning why
Tell me what heaven you’re bound for today
Feel just like I could cry
Feel just like I could cry
Little squirrel sitting on a flat slanted rock
Wondering where the winter meal is coming from
Sick and tired of fighting, I'm gonna lay down my gun
Just know that my work is done
Just know that my work is done
Little boy blue now come blow your horn
No more of the sheep is around
Said I’m tired of fighting, gonna lay down my gun
Just know that my work is done
Just know that my work is done
Just know that my work is done
Just know that my work is done | |
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Posted: 2/1/2006 11:45:55 AM | | first time adding a comment to the forums but this is too good a subject to ignore. i would like to be dispatched to "Great gig in the sky" by the almighty Pink Floyd followed by "I am the resurection" by the Stone Roses now thats a funeral i can't wait to be at lol | |
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Posted: 2/1/2006 10:46:06 PM | Like LucyCoe said, I'd have "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Queen playing. Some other ones would possibly be (if I died today, anyway):
Thrice - Of Dust And Nations
Sarah McLachlan - Black
Megadeth - Promises | |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 12:40:51 PM | "I Did It My Way".
Or... "It's a Wonderful World"!
As long as it was not "Ashlee Simpson"! I don't care who sang these songs at my funeral! | |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 8:20:04 PM | The Rodeo Song
"well it's forty below and i don't give F**k,
got a heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo" | |
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Posted: 2/3/2006 8:35:03 PM | | I have already told my kids to play When I get where I'm going....says it all | |
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