Songs for your funeral

[SillyJokes]

Following on from a comment by Paula Barratt about the list she has of songs for her funeral I wondered if anyone else has a list?

Would you have something gentle or something like

Since you've been gone by Rainbow (the band, not Bungle and Zippy)


Perhaps your partner doesn't like your list and plays

I ain't missing you at all by John Waite

instead. What song would you HATE to be played?

I want

You are my Sunshine, my only sunshine there wouldn't be a dry eye in the house.

 

I think I'll have Motorhead, The Ace of Spades

" You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools
But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever"

 

[RayB]

I'm having "Always look on the bright side of life"....

 

[Dawg]

"Closing Time" by Lenny Cohen
"How can I miss you when you won't go away?" Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks

 

[Sue F]

I want

You are my Sunshine, my only sunshine there wouldn't be a dry eye in the house.

Well that would have me in floods of tears ... I used to sing it to my brother in law when he was a baby (sounds odd but he's 12 and I'm 39).

I've never really thought about it but I quite like "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan.

 

would have to be Frank Sinartra's " I did it the wifes way "

Earl

 

[Orangutan Amy]

'Going underground' The Jam

Amy

 

[Dizzydiza]

'Going underground' The Jam

Amy

Love it

I havent thought about it....i'll come back if i think of any

 

[saracen]

jamiroquai - deeper under ground

David Bowie - ashes to ashes

Maria Mckee - show me heaven


Will think of some more later.

 

[An Oasis]

I love to make people sit through Eruption EVH As long as it was loud I don't think there'd be a dry ear in the house.

 

[Pet Nanny]

Mine is going to be 'You'll never walk alone'. Obvious reasons!

 

[Jeewhizz]

I quite like "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan.

Good song!

I might have "Great balls of fire" as I pass through to the crematory...

 

[saracen]

"Great balls of fire"

Mine would be " great balls on fire "

 

[Matt1959]

"always on my mind" - can't work out which one is best, Pet Shop Boys or Elvis. "Whiter shade of pale" is good though but probally overplayed. At my MIL funeral, we were joing about playing "patricia the stripper" - you can guess what her first name was

 

[CG Effect]

Always look on the bright side of life by Monty python

I like the lyrics " you come from nothing then you go back to nothing so what have you lost"

When I get killed by a car driver at the round about at Chorley Tesco. Nobody indicates there you got 0.2 sec to move once you know their going from the roundabout to driving into the carpark. The roundabout is joined right onto their carpark so i when I'm out jogging I know one day I may not notice the smoke signals.

 

[KM-Tiger]

Hmmm.... I'll probably kill this thread stone dead with my choice:

The Sanctus and Benedictus from Gounod's Messe Solennelle de Sainte Cecile.

(Google will tell you if you are wondering).

 

[Stephen Berry]

If anyone can find this - please get back to me

I was working in Belfast (2000) and attended a gig one evening by a band called Briar. They had a CD called 'Ballards & Craic'. The last song was their sign off song - and I used it as my sign off song for training courses until I lost the CD after a training gig in Barcelona in 2001 (yes, I have a music licence!).
"So it's goodbye, goodnight, got to be moving on ..............(lots of different lines depending on the verse) ..... 'til then keep singing this song"
A certain High Steet store became a customer and promised to trace it for me - to no avail.

If anyone in N.Ireland has heard of Briar, or can get the CD - please PM me - then I'll make a digital copy and save it for my funeral.

 

[Gillie]

If anyone can find this - please get back to me

I was working in Belfast (2000) and attended a gig one evening by a band called Briar. They had a CD called 'Ballards & Craic'. The last song was their sign off song - and I used it as my sign off song for training courses until I lost the CD after a training gig in Barcelona in 2001 (yes, I have a music licence!).
"So it's goodbye, goodnight, got to be moving on ..............(lots of different lines depending on the verse) ..... 'til then keep singing this song"
A certain High Steet store became a customer and promised to trace it for me - to no avail.

If anyone in N.Ireland has heard of Briar, or can get the CD - please PM me - then I'll make a digital copy and save it for my funeral.

Its Brier me dear ...... link here ...

 

[Fuzzy]

Fuzzy would like a Hans Zimmer track please

 

[Cornish Steve]

"When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create no trouble in thy breast. Remember me, but forget my fate." From Dido & Aeneas by Henry Purcell. It starts about one minute into the following YouTube excerpt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U

 

[Arnold Soutar 1]

I think 'moving on up' :> , cant remeber the bands name though

 

[London55]

At my sister's funeral we had Life by Desiree and You'll See by Madonna. Very appropriate for her

 

[DotNetWebs]

I think 'moving on up' :> , cant remeber the bands name though

M People ?

Regards

Dotty

 

[SillyJokes]

Fuzzy would like a Hans Zimmer track please

How about Now We Are Free from the end of the film Gladiator when he's killed - lordy that's a beautiful piece of music. In fact that whole sound track is excellent.

 

[Fuzzy]

How about Now We Are Free from the end of the film Gladiator when he's killed - lordy that's a beautiful piece of music. In fact that whole sound track is excellent.

That's the song I want!!!, another Hams Zimmer fan ?!

 

That's the song I want!!!, another Hams Zimmer fan ?!

Oh, is that what the music is called? I love it.

 

[Fuzzy]

Oh, is that this music? Beautiful, the sound and vision are quite something....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP34MBFmrvc

That's the music, Hans Zimmer is top bloke when it comes to music - soundtrack expert

 

[Mrs Malapup]

Funny I was thinking about this myself this morning....it would be (I think..I do change my mind quite a bit) JS Bach's Choral Prelude for organ..."Ich ruf zu dir Jesu Christ' otherwise known as the beautiful music played in the original film 'Solaris' by Andrei Tarkovsky (not the remake with George Clooney)

 

[Grassman]

'So What' by the Anti Nowhere League (live in Yugoslavia version)
If you don't like cursing DO NOT LOOK IT UP

 

[DotNetWebs]

'So What' by the Anti Nowhere League (live in Yugoslavia version)
If you don't like cursing DO NOT LOOK IT UP

Great song. I prefer the Metallica version.

Warning NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED OR EASILY OFFENDED:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz-9XQL6Ubo&

Regards

Dotty

 

[DotNetWebs]

This would be my Metallica funeral song:

For Whom the Bell Tolls

I love the S & M version (S for [San Francisco] Symphony in case you were wondering)

Regards

Dotty

 

[fiona mac]

My favourite song of all time. and the music that is played in the background to my wedding video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itF0GOu4t18&feature=related

you will have to listen to know what it is.........

 

At my dads funeral, we had the theme tune to the 'The Great Escape'

Myself and my mum and my sisters all knew it was coming of course but the rest of the mourners were slightly bemused to say the least Very appropriate for him though because he had suffered for a long time.

 

[SillyJokes]

At my dads funeral, we had the theme tune to the 'The Great Escape'

Myself and my mum and my sisters all knew it was coming of course but the rest of the mourners were slightly bemused to say the least Very appropriate for him though because he had suffered for a long time.

Claire, that made me laugh out loud and then I felt all cold and tingly and sad.

Excellent choice.

 

[katelj]

At a friend's funeral they played "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" by The Darkness. I'll never forget the feeling as it was playing - being in this huge church with that bellowing through. Amazing. Not sure what song I'd choose for mine though!

 

[Annabelle]

'Show must go on' Queen