20-04-2014, 02:34 PM
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Re: Have you picked your funeral music?
I've often whiled away time thinking about music at my cremation - Oh yes - up in smoke for me!What's the b****y point of being stuck in the ground for some future generation Council jobsworth to decide my remains need shiftin'?
Trouble is there's so many to choose from!
I love the last part of 'Take me to the Mardi Gras' - a Paul Simon song with a New Orleans Jazz Band but then I love "Wish you were here' from Pink Floyd too.
Then there's Jethro Tull's 'Slow Marching Band' - that says a lot for me: -
Would you join a slow marching band?
And take pleasure in your leaving
as the ferry sails and tears are dried
and cows come home at evening.
Could you get behind a slow marching band?
And join together in the passing
of all we shared through yesterdays
in sorrows everlasting.
Take a hand and take a bow.
You played for me; that's all for now, oh, and never
mind the words just hum along and keep on going.
Walk on slowly --- don't look behind you.
Don't say goodbye, love. I won't remind you.
Dream of me as the nights draw cold
still marking time through Winter.
You paid the piper and called the tune
and you marched the band away.
Take a hand and take a bow.
You played for me; that's all for now, oh, and never
mind the words just hum along and keep on going.
Walk on slowly --- don't look behind you.
Don't say goodbye, love. I won't remind you.
Love the last line there..........stevmk2
20-04-2014, 03:56 PM
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Re: Have you picked your funeral music?
I like the Black Parade too, but, my music so far would be: "Memories" from Cats, "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom, when everyone is suitably sobbing I would finish with "The Ying Tong" song by The Goons and "I Don't Want to Set The World on Fire" by Steampowered Giraffes.My sister had a wicker coffin & horse & cart funeral in February it was lovely. May do the same.
29-04-2014, 01:32 PM
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Re: Have you picked your funeral music?
Yes Harry:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46JIyXxLAF0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G8QfBEm4jM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ps2jv0NpD8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suVB3YGIUk0
29-04-2014, 02:42 PM
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Re: Have you picked your funeral music?
It will be up to my wife or the kids to decide in reality, but I would like a simple ceremony of remembrance (strictly non-religious) including:Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
Mighty Like a Rose - Paul Robeson - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhPihMrCDNQ
Before I Grow Too Old (Silver and Gold) - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf8w0773x2U
Smile - Charlie Chaplin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rkNBH5fbMk
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