what music would you have played at your funeral

shrimp


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Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:31

interest to read on another forum what music people would like played at their funeral......not a nice thought I know but one that will apply to us all one day!! my choice would be I will always love you and love hurts.......................

LeYLeY



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Posts: 221

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:36

Mine would be, Neil Arm strong hat a wonderful world.. (:

Navek



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Posts: 2656

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:36

Queen - Another one bites the dust.

greenman


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Posts: 526

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:36

Eva Cassidy - Over the rainbow

jardap


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Posts: 318

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:40

All things bright and beautiful (sung with gusto)

Followed by Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy

metin


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Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:40

Karaoke Queen and Thank You For The Music......lol



Cheerful topic...

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:41

Navek, you beat me to it ;-)

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:41

Eagles...."The Last Resort"

Woodspeckie


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Posts: 2263

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:43

Johnny Cash - Peace in the Valley.

TRNCVaughan


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Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:44

Fire! - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.

metin


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Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:46

LeYLeY



Think you mean Louie Armstrong !!!!!



Think Neil was the first man to walk on the moon.....l don"t think he ever made a record. Lol

bigOz


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Posts: 1244

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:47

Enya! All the wat to the grave...

ripoffrock


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Posts: 255

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:49

Always look on the bright side of life.



Monty Python

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:50

Seasick Steve........."Born Again Blues"

swyflot


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 916

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:50

Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers " Into the great wide open "

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 14:53

my hubbie wants bare necessaties............

MaggieAndBernie



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Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 15:00

Top of the world by the Carpenters! (but I hope it's a long time before I get my request!)



Maggie

Geoff1131MK11


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Posts: 396

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 15:18

Going up to the spirit in the sky,

the butler


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Posts: 1958

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 15:57

Time to say goodbye by Sarah Brightman and going home by the welsh male voice choir.



The butlers wife

No1Doyen


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Posts: 16617

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:05

Also Time to say Goodbye - Sarah Brightman.



Or Knees up Mother Brown )

SaraP


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Posts: 295

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:11

Burn baby burn...disco inferno!

hattikins


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Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:13

I want to hold your hand !!!!! The Beatles

wanderer


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Posts: 1653

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:21

In The Mood Glen Miller was a song hated by Peter Sellers so when he died he went down the isle to it the rest of the goons cracked up no one knew why they were laughing Sellars had the last laugh

yorgozlu



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Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:32

theme from Lonsome Dove.

numpty


Joined: 20/05/2009
Posts: 554

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:48

Our daughter Nickie who died 31-3-09 of breast cancer aged 36 chose her own music DR and The Medics Spirit in the sky, if that song comes on the radio it still makes me cry, miss her so much

yorgozlu



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Posts: 4437

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:50

Nobody dies all the while WE keep them in our thoughts.

Blackpoolfan


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Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 16:58

At my cremation i would have "Smoke gets in your eyes" by the Platters

Blackie


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Posts: 129

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:02

The Skids - Going Underground or AC/DC Highway tlo Hell

AlsancakJack



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Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:08

You would be lucky to have any music played out here but if they did for me it would be 'The Sound Of Silence'

cyprusman3



Joined: 09/06/2009
Posts: 297

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:10

Errrr if you cant hear it whats the point?

shrimp


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Posts: 939

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:21

depends on your view point, I believe you would be able to hear it ........according to your views, what then is the point of a funeral at all, you cant see it,........

firebreathing


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Posts: 47

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:26

I'd have Ding Dong The Wicked Witch Is Dead.

magalan


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Posts: 227

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:29

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

rocking


Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 421

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:31

As the coffin was going slowly through the curtains at a cremation I attended they played Fall in and Follow Me - and one of the best wakes after I have ever been to.

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:32

Obviously message 29 went over every ones head.

Earlybird


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Posts: 816

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:35

Don't Worry, Be happy by Bobby McFerrin

PaulW



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Posts: 651

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:36

Message 20, Bill i would like you to dance on my grave when I go!

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I'm being buried at sea

kevnmax


Joined: 05/08/2008
Posts: 105

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:45

My mother in law had Feeling Hot Hot Hot , played at her cremation

jenny278


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Posts: 79

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:49

Michael Ball The Rose, Anything by Il Diva, only time I could say they would be singing for me

Dusterbruce


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Posts: 1125

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 18:15

I am What I am



Hide Your Love Away

racoonchic



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Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 18:54

wham wake me up b4 you go go

westender


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Posts: 328

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 19:08

'The Road to Hell' & 'The Beach' by Chris Rea

chiangbill



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Posts: 137

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 19:23

Blackpoolfan





At my cremation i want: 'Fire' By the crazy world of Arthur Brown..

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 19:48

msg35 Not at all, we just got on with our lives and ignored it....Isn't that what should be done by people who don't care about the outside world...........??

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 19:59

What about "Let Me Down Easy" by Shawn Desman

Blackpoolfan


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Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 20:09

chianqbill,

You have started something now



On the theme of fire then it has to be Johnny Cash "Burning ring of fire" Over to you.............

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 20:10

"I'm Going Home" by Rod Stewart.

Rob-b


Joined: 25/09/2010
Posts: 17

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 20:12

Queen - Who wants to live for ever at the beginning and as I leave - The show must go on

martinD41


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Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 20:25

msg46 The Move "Fire brigade"

gooligan


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Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 20:33

"Dilligaf" Kevin 'Bloody' Wilson

Groucho



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Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 20:39

I would like the sound of scratching on the inside of a wooden box and muffled screaming... that would scare the bejesus out of them!

gooligan


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Posts: 1591

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 21:49

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rowan


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Posts: 450

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 22:43

the laughing policeman???????????

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 23:06

For me, If tomorrow never comes by the lovely ronan, My way by old blue eyes, thwen as I go underground i would like Time to say goodbye by andrea botecheli, sarah brightman. During the srvice mass I would like Ava Maria by Mario Lanza. This is very apt for me today as it was the day of my brother in laws funeral.I was not there x

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 23:12

sorry you didnt make it afterall Lilli, that must have been hard for you, but your family will need you more in the months to come I am sure....time to say goodbye is a heart wrenching one, my friend had it at his funeral and it brings tears to my eyes just hearing the title alone let alone the music.....

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 23:29

hiya shrimp today has been so hard for me as you can imagine. Just going to call them now as the service was late and they will be in the middle of the wake. Most os the music I have heard from funerals still make me cry as you remember that person.My brothers wake was a full on Irish one, he went out to the Wild Rover, best wake i have been to if that makes sence, my baby sister had eva cassidy, i cant even play that still.Trying to get back next week now xxx

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 01:41

"lay me down on a bed of roses" Bon Jovi



and on my gravestone, "end of part one, to be continued"

caroletavy


Joined: 03/07/2007
Posts: 143

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 02:01

Meatloaf - Like a Bat Out of Hell

numpty


Joined: 20/05/2009
Posts: 554

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 07:19

Sorry you didn't make it Lilli,

apc2010


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Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 07:22

lilli , could be worse i spent over 1000 to go to an important funeral (inc120 pound taxi) arrived to the minute it finshed ,

Lucie


Joined: 02/09/2010
Posts: 50

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 08:48

Lou Fellingham - 'There is a day'

tarry67


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 1053

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 13:29

" So Lonely" Sting

DeaconB


Joined: 13/07/2010
Posts: 120

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 13:38

“I wish I was in Carrickfergus”



A a haunting melody popular with the inmates of the kesh, which could soon be revived.

cyprusgiant


Joined: 08/07/2009
Posts: 467

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 16:33

What's It Gonna Be - Dusty Springfield

PaulW



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Posts: 651

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 17:18

Music not to be played at a funeral



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYXS4CDU6Y



or perhaps you should!

doggiesteve


Joined: 06/10/2010
Posts: 265

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 17:30

it got to be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x8D4T--0v4

SaraP


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Posts: 295

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 15:23

Message 31 ...liked that it was very funny!

Stewart


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Posts: 1107

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 15:30

It's my party and I'll die if I want to!

yus2u


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 33

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 16:34

Dixieland the only way to go

LooseBoots



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Posts: 1258

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 16:57

It`s got to be " Lilly the Pink"

LaptaMike


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Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 17:03

re msg26 yorg, that's such a beautiful and profound statement. I might have to have it on my gravestone, it has touched me so much.

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 17:07

When the Saints come`marching in - Humphrey Littleton - (tongue in cheek - can undertakers do that?) Ill get sheets printed so everyone can bawl it out!! Except dear Jack -here - maybe they could hum??= or my surviving family can bring a band to counteract the silence!

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 17:23

Hey LaptaMike, how about........................... are you ready for this............Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett, a graveyard Smash - boom boom!!!! Chicken dinner all ready to go in the ovenxx

LaptaMike


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Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 17:27

hehe shrimp.

donga


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Posts: 272

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 17:58

have to be oasis......................... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL_CWPlfz1U

stockiefan


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Posts: 574

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 18:14

Michael Jackson: The earth song.

laptagal


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Posts: 549

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 18:51

Can't bring myself to think about it but my husband has always said he wants 'I'll be watching you' by Police.

sloan



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Posts: 808

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 18:53

We had an adopted son, Andrew, who died from muscular dystrophy aged nearly 26... we played some of his favourite music at his funeral, including: Don't Worry ... Bob Marley and Savage Garden's Truly, Madly Deeply. He had become very disabled and dependent in his latter years and I had a vision of him reborn looking like Jude Law and being able to stand on the mountain (for those of you who know the lyrics). I would like both of those songs played, along with the more traditional 'Guide me, oh thou Great Jehovah' which is something of a family hymn..... but I am hoping that they do not need to be played for many years!

Jessie


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Posts: 145

Message Posted:
30/10/2010 19:01

The frog song - paul mcartney

Linnyloos


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Posts: 483

Message Posted:
31/10/2010 01:10

So sorry you didn't make it Liz x





There is only one for me..........In my Life sung by Bette Midler. Absolutely beautiful

marcosthechef



Joined: 30/11/2009
Posts: 646

Message Posted:
31/10/2010 03:04

Do you know what, I love a load of the songs requested on this post but I think this one has gotta be my fav and I think you should all make sure it is played at my funeral and also make sure my wake is the beat party you ever went to, no holes barred, I love you all



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeqqJ5BWBds&feature=related

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
31/10/2010 10:30

I actually did my will a little while back and sat and discussed things with my son......what songs i wanted etc....



to walk in - eric clapton - stirway to heaven

contemplation time - luther vandross - always and forever.

for congregation to walk out to - aint no mountain high enough - marvin gaye and tammi tyrell, the more upbeat version, i want everyone to be walking out with a smile on their faces...



i did suggest as a joke diane ross - i'm coming out........

deputydawg


Joined: 30/03/2010
Posts: 1727

Message Posted:
31/10/2010 14:04

Paul, message 37. Will your mates drown digging the grave ? I want to frighten the crap out of the mourners if there are any. Mary Hopkin 19770 -



"Knock knock who'se there,

The door is always open wide,

Take off your clothes,

And come inside" !



PS. probably Avon calling if the church bell is knackered

basheer



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Posts: 949

Message Posted:
31/10/2010 14:11

best you have prayers sang out, you and me and all will need that we we going

apc2010


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Posts: 1689

Message Posted:
11/12/2010 22:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOp9c5DRzc





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