Funeral Songs

roseg

This isn't funny - it's serious! I'm no fan of church music. When I go I want people tapping their feet!

I found these on another web site, and thought I wanted to make a CD of them, because I love most of these songs - In life. One notably absent is: You Can't Always Get What You Want.

Free Bird - Lynard Skynar
Ring of Fire - JC
Franklins' Tower - Grateful Dead
A Case of You - Joni Mitchell
Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam (oh to go to heaven withe Eddie Vetter)
Skating Away - Jethro Tull
Turn, turn, turn - The Birds
Dust in the Wind - Kansas
I can see clearly now - ????
Good Riddance (hope you have the time of your life) - Green Day
Hotel California - Eagles
Bohemian Rhaspsody - Queen
Walking on Sunshine - ???
In-a-gadda-da-vida - Iron Butterfly
Send Laywers, Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
End of the World as We Know It - REM

Got some others to add? I'd forgotten how much I loved Franklins' Tower. Where are the Dead fans?

christineK

I was thinking of making a playlist, but I know I will not be needing it anytime soon. If I were to put a Dead song on it, it would be Box of Rain.
christinek

Doc

The last funeral I attended was for a man whose passion (but not his day job) was his band; he played the electric guitar. His floral arrangement was shaped like a guitar and his bandmates performed Rock-and-Roll Heaven!

Sandra1957

"Mad World" by Tears for Fears was performed at the last funeral I attended. The father of the young man who passed perfomed it. It was touching.

lauri

Odd you should come up with this -- I was making a list yesterday for what I want at my funeral (not that I think this will be anytime soon -- or even within the next decade -- I'm just a big list-maker)

Because of my varied religious background (raised as a Methodist and sang in the church choir for years, then converted to Judiasm at 22 when I married) it would be an eclectic service -- kaddish, of course, but in English rather than in Hebrew since it's a beautiful prayer of praise for God -- the 24th Psalm, some hymns from my childhood (This is My Father's World), some songs whose lyrics have meaning for me (Let There Be Peace on Earth, One God, and as a grand finale The Rose. Hadn't thought of making up a playlist -- I was thinking more of having the lyrics available for people to think about.

jah4377

"Whenever God Shines his Light" by Van Morrison
"Let It Rain" by Eric Clapton
"Love Will Keep Us Alive" by The Eagles
"Blue Skies" by the Allman Brothers
"Talking to My Angel" by Melissa Etheridge
"Dancing with Myself" by Billy Idol
"Loveshack" by the B-52's
"Walk like an Egyptian" by The Bangles
The whole "Songs You Know by Heart" cd by Jimmy Buffet


Am I showing my age?

kelly1215

here's one of mine...ironically enough, a dead song.

Birdsong

All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew on,
Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.

If you hear that same sweet song again, will you know why?
Anyone who sings a tune so sweet is passin' by,
Laugh in the sunshine, sing, cry in the dark, fly through the night.

Don't cry now, don't you cry, don't you cry anymore.
Sleep in the stars, don't you cry, dry your eyes on the wind.

All I know is something like a bird within her sang,
All I know she sang a little while and then flew off,
Tell me all that you know, I'll show you snow and rain.

kelly1215

oh, and also ironically enough, i was making a list just this past weekend.

iodine

I already have my list, paid for the cremation, memorial service, bought the urns(raku) at a huge craft fair, instructed the kids to crack a keg and have red and white wine (do NOT throw my crystal stems in the fire place) and get LOUD!
Anything from the movie The Big Chill
Anything from Jimmy Buffett
This is Not Goodbye by Melissa E.
Anything from the '60's and 70's
My age is, of course, obvious.

PoohRN1962

My funeral songs are:

Freebird (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Funeral for a Friend (Elton John)
What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)

My son is in charge, but now my daughter won't listen to any of these songs...says I've "ruined" them!!!!!

PoohRN1962

ooooh...and if I have to have a "church-y" song, how about, "I was there to hear your borning cry"...LOVE that one!

denisa

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denisa

Bancroft9

Van Morrison Into the Mystic is my number 1 funeral song!!!!

maxnana

I'm thinking it has to be that DooWop goldie "Good-Night Sweetheart", and one fabulous party afterwards.(but not soon, I promise)

mizb

so many ...

"It's a Beautiful Day" U2

"Unbroken Chain" The Dead