Funeral Songs

roseg · October 2006

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 · October 2006

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 · October 2006

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 · October 2006

"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 · October 2006

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 · October 2006

"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 · October 2006

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 · October 2006

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

iodine · October 2006

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 · October 2006

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!!!!!