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What's Song Do You Want At Your Funeral ?

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    #62
    CrazyRabbit
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    Organs donated. The rest get cremated.

    No funeral, but probably some kind of service. So perhaps 'The show must go on' by Queen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADh8Fs3YdU


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    #63
    Run_to_da_hills
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    A Fnnish Metal / Opera group Nightwish with Tarja siging would be my choice.

    "Angls fall first".

    "Dead boys poem"


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    #64
    The Pontiac
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    I'm surprised The End by The Doors hasn't been mentioned.


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    #65
    nibtrix
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    Into the West, from The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Brilliant lyrics:

    Lay down
    Your sweet and weary head
    Night is falling
    You have come to journey's end
    Sleep now
    And dream of the ones who came before
    They are calling
    From across a distant shore
    Why do you weep?
    What are these tears upon your face?
    Soon you will see
    All of your fears will pass away

    Safe in my arms
    You're only sleeping

    What can you see
    On the horizon?
    Why do the white gulls call?
    Across the sea
    A pale moon rises
    The ships have come to carry you home
    And all will turn
    To silver-glass
    A light on the water
    All souls pass

    Hope fades
    Until the world of night
    Through shadows' falling
    Out of memory and time
    Don't say
    We have come now to the end
    White shores are calling
    You and I will meet again

    And you'll be here in my arms
    Just sleeping

    What can you see
    On the horizon?
    Why do the white gulls call?
    Across the sea
    A pale moon rises
    The ships have come to carry you home
    And all will turn
    To silver-glass
    A light on the water
    Grey ships pass
    Into the West


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    #66
    Run_to_da_hills
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    <Ollie> wrote: »
    I'm surprised The End by The Doors hasn't been mentioned.

    Its too bloody long. :p


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    #67
    Walsh
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsmAMKUIXbE


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    #68
    Lollipops23
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    A song I have loved since I was a baby. Still brings me to tears.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJReRiLWco


    Also like this, if they're stuck for stuff to play this'll do fine:p
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q


    also want my organs donated and to be buried,not cremated.


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    #69
    Busi_Girl08
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    No service. Cremate my body.

    Just all my close friends and family, ashes scattered at Clare Glens, with this playing :)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np0solnL1XY


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    #70
    OutlawPete
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    I'd go with this one, just to annoy people ..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvnAHzJdmlY


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    #71
    S-Murph
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    Red Flag by Jim Connell

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0mKZigG9w

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag#The_song_.22The_Red_Flag.22

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Connell


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    #72
    CUCINA
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    The last chorus of "Three Wheels on my Wagon", i.e., "No Wheels on My Wagon"


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    #73
    MetalDawg
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    I want my funeral speeded up and set to the Benny Hill theme.


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    #74
    tampopo
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    Organ donation card signed and in my poca. But three songs, Will Young's Think I gotta Leave Right Now, the aforementioned Time to Say Goodbye by Sarah Brightman and Andrea Boccelli, plus Take That's Back for Good, thrown in for good measure.


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    #75
    3hn2givr7mx1sc
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    Rayne wrote: »
    Have a few, but wouldn't mind this...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ltAGuuru7Q

    The male equivalent of Susan Boyle..


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    #76
    bnt
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    Frivolous Suggestion: I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive by Hank Williams. :p
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vApPwWqh8



    Serious Suggestion: Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Opus 36, Movement 2 "Larghetto".
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcPE-1vNiOs

    Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony (No. 6) might be better known, especially the "Shepherd's Song" final movement, but I still prefer this piece. The history is important: it dates from the period when Beethoven was coming to terms with his increasing deafness, and facing his own mortality.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



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    #77
    SEPT 23 1989
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpLSRLpuwqM


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    #78
    The Pontiac
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    I'm watching the Roger Waters - In The Flesh dvd at the moment; he's doing mostly Pink Floyd songs obviously. There's quite a few songs that would fit the bill nicely - 'Amused to Death', 'In the Flesh', 'Comfortably Numb', 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', 'Time', 'Wish You Were Here'.. but I'd pick 'Breathe (In the Air)' as my favourite funeral song now.


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    #79
    phatkev
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    ordinary man-eels
    throw your arms around me-hunters and collectors
    baker street-gerry rafferty
    indifference-pearl jam


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    #80
    The Big Red Button
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    They can play all the soppy sentimental crap they want for the service, but I want this playing while I'm being brought out of the church to make everyone smile:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYP-wAVzmR0


    And then there'll be a big piss-up in my local after with all the crappy songs on my mp3 player blasting out over the speakers. :D

    Also, I've everyone told that my organs are to be donated if possible. And also that if they dare have an open coffin I will haunt them forever. Seriously the idea of people staring at me when I can't stare back ... for some reason it totally creeps me out!


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    #81
    McChubbin
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    Meridith Brooks- Bitch
    (The lyrics are like reading off a list of my personal traits.)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuP8VBroyyg


    On a similar note: Alanis Morrisette- One Hand In My Pocket
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyn-EYs8KYs


    Within Temptation's "The Truth Beneath The Rose" because it would be epic to have it played in a Gothic cathedral with a smoke machine...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfCeAvcYpSk


    Evanescence- "Like You" for some funeral melancholy.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C3ULNG3xVM


    And on a lighter note:

    Sum 41-Fat Lip
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sGmmxUQWig


    Monty Python- Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
    I'd stipulate that if everyone didn't sing along and whistle to this they'd get cut out of the will!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UP86bciVA


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    #82
    marwelie
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    Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
    Throw your Arms around Me (Neil Finns version only please)
    Ideology - Billy Bragg
    Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight (to be played while Im leaving the church ;o)/The End - The Beatles)
    The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd


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    #83
    Hugo Drax
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    Altar of Sacrifice - Reign in Blood - Slayer.


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    #84
    RobbieTheRobber
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    In an attempt to take this thread way to seriously I would go for

    Vera Lynns Classic war song

    "We'll Meet again"



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    #85
    smoochie06
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    It has to be dust in the wind with Will Ferrell singing it

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGS6najMzjI


    Your my boy Blue


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    #86
    _ZeeK_
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    spooky in context..



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    #87
    Preset No.3
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    John Miles - Music

    Very apt, considering my job.


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    #88
    hitlersson666
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    if i die young i want this played because it's my fave song of all time and it's lyrics actually mean something



    Lyrics
    I Flew beyond the sun before it was time
    Burning all the gold that held me inside my shell
    Waiting for you to pull me back in
    I almost sat the world in my sights

    Lost, love bright eyes fading
    Faster than stars falling
    How can I tell you thatI failed?
    Tell you I failed

    Fallen from grace cause I been away too long
    Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
    Now I'm lost in oblivion

    I tried to bore a hole into the ground
    Breaking all the fingers and the nails from my hand
    The eyes of the child see no wrong
    Ignorant bliss impending doom

    Lost, love bright eyes fading
    Faster than stars falling
    How can I tell you that I failed?
    Tell you I failed

    Fallen from grace cause I been away too long
    Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
    Now I'm lost
    Fallen from grace cause I been away too long
    Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
    Now I'm lost in oblivion

    Fallen from grace cause I been away too long
    Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
    Now I'm lost
    Fallen from grace cause I been away too long
    Leaving you behind with my lonesome song
    Now I'm lost in oblivion
    In oblivion


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    #89
    Beasty
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    Surprised this one doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqwFfGgLPzM


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    #90
    The Pontiac
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Surprised this one doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqwFfGgLPzM

    I'd prefer to go with Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven myself..


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    #91
    mud
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csb1geIUSIM


    Lyrics to Day Is Gone :
    Telling familiar stories
    Invited us to our home for some soup
    Bothered by steam
    We clipped our wing, so we can't fly

    Better than better than what?
    Some dying off
    A rocket ship
    Looks as if a day is gone
    Looks as if a day is missing
    Everyone's trying to leave
    Lorries driving to the sea
    Who is that who slammed the door?
    Looks as if a day has gone away

    More active than scraps alive
    Sleep for weeks but often stirring
    More alive than anyone swears
    As born were we from hollow trees
    Telling familiar stories
    Invited us to our home for some soup
    Bothered by steam
    We clip our wing, so we can't fly away

    Looks as if a day is gone
    Looks as if the day is playing
    Looks as if a day is gone
    Looks as if a day has gone away
    [ Day Is Gone Lyrics on http://www.lyricsmania.com/ ]


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