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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #25 on: April 29, 2021, 10:22:56 PM »
7734 by Sabaton.  Because it may as well be metal.

Almighty lord we have come to your hall
Do glatem live, creator of all
Open your heart and you will find a way
Paradise calling and enter you may


That or Amazing Grace on the pipes.  Guy at the VFW plays and it'll tear your heart out.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2021, 11:14:35 PM »
Nothing particular in mind but I'd like it to be something decidedly inappropriate.

About 15 years ago the adult son a good friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver while test driving a motorcycle.
"I Like Big Butts" was the young man's favorite song, sort of his theme song. It was played at the funeral.

As a side note, the young man had just 2 weeks prior returned from his 2nd deployment to the Afghanistan.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2021, 11:21:07 PM »
As a DD-214 holder, I could get Taps and a flag for the wife. Will probably do that at the very end of it all then a drive out the Kisatchie National Forest just outside Pollock, LA to scatter my ashes in the woods there near "Big Creek".
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #28 on: April 30, 2021, 09:16:56 AM »
As people are being seated: Largo, From the New World symphony No. 9 in E minor, Opus 95, Dvorak
At the end of the service: Go Rest High on That Mountain by Vince Gill
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #29 on: April 30, 2021, 09:48:46 AM »
I have a Viking funeral planned. Haven’t decided on music yet. Maybe Jonny cash ring of fire.
I was at a funeral for a friend and they played Elvis gospel music. That was pretty cool.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #30 on: April 30, 2021, 09:49:38 AM »
Thunderstruck looped with Dr. McCoy saying "He's dead, Jim!"
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2021, 11:42:43 AM »
Thunderstruck looped with Dr. McCoy saying "He's dead, Jim!"

Genius!
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #32 on: May 01, 2021, 04:38:17 PM »
I have a Viking funeral planned. Haven’t decided on music yet.

Me too, though nothing is on paper. A “good” friend has been told to acquire a boat for it. That way I can provide some entertainment when the rightful owner comes running out to inquire why his boat is floating away, and in flames...

https://youtu.be/LLGeGXH8fRw
Music starts about :58 in.

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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #33 on: May 02, 2021, 06:17:06 PM »
(Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult.  Contrary to popular belief, it is not a song about suicide.  It is about love transcending death, how two people can be together in eternity.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #34 on: May 02, 2021, 06:33:42 PM »
I'm surprised none of you troublemakers hasn't mentioned John Prine's Please Don't Bury Me.

But I'm going to go with Come On Up To The House.  This version, not the Tom Waits original.

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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2021, 09:53:14 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdOXCn1vvzI

(PIano cover of "The Great Gig in the Sky")

---edit to add--

Actually, "For All the Saints" (alt), with the Vaughn Williams tune ("Sine Nomine"), or something like this.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #36 on: May 02, 2021, 10:30:05 PM »
That's easy.  Open Casket at least 20 feet away from people and the song Pop Goes the Weasel.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #37 on: May 02, 2021, 10:52:52 PM »
 I want my head severed and used as a prop to scare people on halloween, and I would appreciate if you guys wait until i am actually dead before commencing .

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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #38 on: May 04, 2021, 02:16:12 AM »
Something To Remind You by Staind

https://youtu.be/LLY0EKotBQ8

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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #39 on: May 04, 2021, 06:48:01 AM »
Tom Waits Cold, Cold, Ground would be a great one, too.
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Re: What song do you want played at your funeral?
« Reply #40 on: May 04, 2021, 09:44:07 AM »
Frank Sinatra singing, "I did it my way."  Been my theme song since it came out many years ago.