I was out drinking with our minister, and I told him some of my “non-traditional” ideas for my funeral. He let me finish, and smirked “Great ideas, but I’m going to do whatever your wife wants.” CURSES!
But, I can still request a hymn, and it’ll be “What Wondrous Love is This?”
It’s got an Americana rootsy feel*, and the last verse says “And when from death I’m free,
I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on…”
The other reason I want it played is that then the program’ll read “Hymn #666”.
This is a beautiful song, and I might choose that for mine. But I just wanted to check with you, if you wanted to avoid Bible-based songs. Because if you weren’t aware of it, this song is from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes:
The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes, as found in the King James Version (1611) of the Bible, (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) though the sequence of the words was rearranged for the song.
The trouble is, the pieces I might suggest are a bit long, and not necessarily to the taste of the people who might be there. But for the mood, I like any of these:
PS: My brother the minister told me once how often he had to discourage people from using “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” or “Blaze Away” at the crematorium.
Your link takes me to a 15-second underwear ad on YouTube. It does have some driving electronica music underneath, but I’m thinking that’s not what you meant.
Good to know! If that happens at my funeral, even better. But I think this is what I meant to post.
