Funeral songs

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Are there any poignant ones you've heard at a funeral or that you're planning?

Here's my two:

On entering the service:





Filing out (although you need more than a couple to file!) Has to be this version only




Because life, while you are alive is everything, and love is all, in the end it is an absurdity and death the final call 😁

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I recently went to a good friend and cousin of my wife’s funeral where it kicked off with status quo rocking all over the world and ended with life of Bryan’s always look on the bright side of life.

i chose morning has broken hymn for my dad as it was always his favourite and for a hymn was pretty upbeat 

me?.......No doubt about it, I’ve already insisted on this masterpiece...just haven’t decided on this or my sons cover of it.

[lawrieleslie]

I’ve told the kids to make my funeral as frugal as possible. A Royal Marine friend organised his own dads funeral, hired a VW Transporter for a day, bought a cardboard coffin, paid for embalming and chapel of rest facility and administered the funeral service at the crem between him and his brother. They had the wake 3 days later at the local pub with his dad’s ashes in an urn on the bar. Cost him under £1000, most of which were cremation costs and chucking £400 behind the bar. Exactly what I want. Haven’t decided on the music at the crem yet.

[thequietman]

I've told Mrs Q that I've written into my will: I either have to go on a fired viking longship in the canal basin in Leeds city centre, or buried under a mature oak tree in the back garden. If she doesn't fulfill one of those conditions, she doesn't inherit.

We don't have any oak trees in our garden & I doubt Leeds council would allow the viking longship.

I haven't written them into my will, but I've got to keep her on her toes (and her hand away from the box of rat poison).

Music:

I good friend a couple of years ago was carried in to the church to a live trad jazz band. I can't recall the song, sadly.

He was carried out to Roger Whittaker: The Unicorn because he used to dance & sing to it with his kids. Brilliant, not a dry eye in the house.

I want to be carried in to Jethro Tull: Moths

and carried out to Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away

[Billybigbollox]

Oct 2, 2018 10:15:29 GMT lawrieleslie said:

I’ve told the kids to make my funeral as frugal as possible. A Royal Marine friend organised his own dads funeral, hired a VW Transporter for a day, bought a cardboard coffin, paid for embalming and chapel of rest facility and administered the funeral service at the crem between him and his brother. They had the wake 3 days later at the local pub with his dad’s ashes in an urn on the bar. Cost him under £1000, most of which were cremation costs and chucking £400 behind the bar. Exactly what I want. Haven’t decided on the music at the crem yet.

If it's a free bar, where are you having 'the do' LL. Some of us might be free on that day.

[marylandstoke]

Closed casket in the center of the room and then Pop goes the Weasel, very, very slowly on a hurdy gurdy.

[harryburrows]

This will be my swan song

[scfcwebby]

My godmother's funeral song always make me cry...still... After 15 years

[Boothen]

And then as my coffin slowly lowers into the torpedo tube before launching me into a newly formed world...

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[chuffedstokie]

Absent friends.

The Divine comedy.


On the way out of the church. Then the gathered two or three can go for a few beers and a sarnie on me.

[Deleted]

Think I’d like to be carried in to this......nice and subtle like

In rememberance of my younger years of pay day and Friday night rape and pillage

For any snowflakes that’s not literally obviously 🙄 

[maxplonk]

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[JoeinOz]

[stayingupfor Sexualchocolate]

Cigarettes and Alcohol will be mine

[Cast no shadow]

Bee gees, staying alive

[danceswithclams]

This at the start:

:

"You've caught me at a bad time, so why don't you piss off..."

Then this at the end:



"Whether you're a brother, a wise man, or a lover, you're just stayin' alive"

[Paul Spencer]

[elystokie]

Oct 3, 2018 13:26:35 GMT Paul Spencer said:

Absolutely love that, bought the album CD for my mum years ago, brilliant.

[felonious]

Oct 2, 2018 7:52:38 GMT @marymoistspongeberry said:

I recently went to a good friend and cousin of my wife’s funeral where it kicked off with status quo rocking all over the world and ended with life of Bryan’s always look on the bright side of life.

i chose morning has broken hymn for my dad as it was always his favourite and for a hymn was pretty upbeat 

me?.......No doubt about it, I’ve already insisted on this masterpiece...just haven’t decided on this or my sons cover of it.

Thought this would be more up your street?

[felonious]

I went to a funeral of a friend some years back and her favourite song, Fly me to the moon by Frank Sinatra was played which had the effect of dissolving her four children into uncontrollable fits of sobbing. It's a popular song and he's a popular artist so they will probably have that association every time they hear a Sinatra song.

I think I'll probably choose my son's favourite Arctic Monkeys track just to ruin it for him

This is the favourite at the moment.

[lordb]

Nessun Dorma has to be the most inappropriate.


For mine I want Atmosphere by Joy Division and at the end Atmosphere by Russ Abbott.

[felonious]

I went to a funeral yesterday and this sounded great at the end.

[bathstoke]

Let those that have ears hear




Let those that have eyes see

[Deleted]

I'd go with this, lights out, blue strobe lighting, smoke machine around the casket. You know, get the atmosphere going a little

[franklin66]

Oct 2, 2018 11:33:37 GMT thequietman said:

I've told Mrs Q that I've written into my will: I either have to go on a fired viking longship in the canal basin in Leeds city centre, or buried under a mature oak tree in the back garden. If she doesn't fulfill one of those conditions, she doesn't inherit.

We don't have any oak trees in our garden & I doubt Leeds council would allow the viking longship.

I haven't written them into my will, but I've got to keep her on her toes (and her hand away from the box of rat poison).

Music:

I good friend a couple of years ago was carried in to the church to a live trad jazz band. I can't recall the song, sadly.

He was carried out to Roger Whittaker: The Unicorn because he used to dance & sing to it with his kids. Brilliant, not a dry eye in the house.

I want to be carried in to Jethro Tull: Moths

and carried out to Buddy Holly: Not Fade Away

Heads up I run a small garden centre and I've had a big order for oak trees from a Mrs Q...

[Dutchpeter]

[kelw]

Would have to be these ditties from Johnny Cash.       


When there's no room left in Hell, the dead shall walk the earth

[Billybigbollox]

Jun 22, 2019 10:14:41 GMT Dutchpeter said:

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Some of us deeper than others Dutchy. 😁

[NassauDave]

I was at a funeral a couple of years ago and as we were leaving the song was Tub Thumper by Chumbawamba.

[pretzel]

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