Songs to have played at yer Funeral!


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Let it Loose...Rolling Stones.

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Visionary Mountains... Manfred Manns Earthband.

Third:

Mr.Brooks...Dave Brooks.

The third choice is from the 1973-1974 BBC programme, 'The Family'. It is on YouTube on the 'Gather in the mushrooms' album...brilliant!!

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I went to a funeral at Bramcote, For a bloke that I knew where we worked, But suffering the music they played there, Made me wish it was one that I'd shirked. I wouldn't have minded George For

This was the one I had played for my Sue.

As folk arrive "Campfire's Burning" - homage to my Scouting days During "Flash, Bang, Wallop" by Tommy Steele - homage to my camera club As folk leave "I'm On Fire" by Bruce Springsteen,

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Bird on the Wire by Katey Sagal. Wonderful singer and prophetic lyrics. Had it on in the car nearly all day.

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Went to a funeral yesterday, and they played Everybody Hurts..... REM, He ain't Heavy..... The Hollies and Albatross..... Fleetwood Mac. Brilliant stuff.

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By heck tabby, that'll rouse em up !

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Drift Away by Dobie Grey..... I'd definitely have  that !

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Sorry don't believe in funerals I am more of a waste disposal type. Just wish the council would provide a black wheelie bin for the purpose. I have left a sum of money to get rid of my body with strict instructions to spend as little as possible, all the rest to be spent down the pub for a wake.

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I want a big funeral.......lots of Deano and Frankies music...........everybody wailing and being just overcome with the thought of never seeing me again....and saying what a great bloke i was ..............in reality it will be probably quite small......and they'll all be laughing at my music......and saying.........wer'nt he a 'Tw%* .......and so long as they are laughing.......that'll do for me.......my only worry is how will i be dressed.............LOL.

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If I'm still around, Ben, I'll make it my business to see that you don't go on your send off without your liberty bodice, silk shirt and tie.

 

If even a fraction of your old flames turn up and bring one red rose each, that should guarantee a worldwide shortage of red roses for at least a month!

 

I'm planning to record  my own funeral speech. It will give a nasty shock to all those who think they've got rid of me! I shall have the Berceuse from Faure's Dolly Suite played as folk come in (shades of Listen With Mother) and the Osanna from Bach's B Minor Mass as they leave. Poems by Thomas Hardy, Walter De la Mare and W B Yeats will be read. There will be no flowers but donations to Cat Rescue. No one who doesn't have a tail and four paws will get a bean from my estate and I intend to be too busy playing with moggies who sloped off before I did to worry about what they do with my carcase! :rolleyes:

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I've often thought of a video to be played at me funeral.  A nice friendly chat with a few home truths for one or two I've met over the course of my life.  After all there's nowt they can say or do about it then. vampire2

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#95  The Berceuse from the Dolly Suite - good choice. Not so struck on the Bach Mass piece. Give me In Paradisum from Faure's Requiem any day. Don't you want the mourners to cry, Jill. Now me, I want the full musical glory as the curtains close around me - the finale of Mahler's 8th. Or I could make them weep with Richard Strauss's Biem Schlafengehen from his Four Last Songs, sung by Gundula Janowitz. 

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If you had Ravel's Bolero, that would make me weep! Can't stand it! :angry:

 

I don't want anyone to cry. I want them to smile and laugh. I don't think funerals should be miserable affairs. Perhaps you've thought of hiring professional mourners to walk after the coffin, wailing, as they did in earlier times? I can't believe a person with your sense of fun would want a miserable send off, Chulla!

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