# Morbid I know \[funeral music\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840 "2008-02-23T12:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/41 "2008-02-24T07:09:28Z")
**Der Ring des Nibelungen**. All of it. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/42 "2008-02-24T07:40:03Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Well, I thought “Amazing Grace” would be nice. But reading these boards, I think “Bitch I stole yo purse” might be better. Cleese giving the eulogy for Graham Chapman: [http://youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek](http://youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek) [/QUOTE] That’s just brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/43 "2008-02-24T07:50:21Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] That’s just brilliant. [/QUOTE] “Amazing Grace” on bagpipes is a must. Beyond that, I would add “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” by J.S. Bach, and “Blue Sky” (?) by the Allman Brothers Band. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/44 "2008-02-24T08:40:52Z")
A dear friend of mine and the hubby’s had put in his will a list of Beatles songs to be played at his funeral. The last song on the list before the eulogy was “Let It Be” which broke everyone in the room down. Every single person. Me? “Amazing Grace” on bagpipes, or “Ave Maria.” I’m Pagan and those songs just get me _right_ there. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/45 "2008-02-24T13:09:31Z")
The Moody Blues- Nights in White Satin The Alan Parsons Project- Old and Wise Annie Lennox- Into the West Hymns- It is Well with my Soul How Great Thou Art maybe Blessed Assurance Ambiant music during visitation- This Is The Moody Blues (best of double album) Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Wagner- Ring Highlights ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/46 "2008-02-24T13:42:50Z")
**Bosca** : How are your comments about dumping Richard Nixon’s body in sewage related to “what music would you like at your funeral?” I’m assuming you’ve accidentally posted in the wrong thread, since the other assumption would be that you’re threadshitting… which is not nice. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/47 "2008-02-24T13:47:37Z")
One song? Damn. I’d let my Mom pick it. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/48 "2008-02-24T15:58:03Z")
One song only, if I were choosing… Burn by John Wesley Harding. But Amazing Grace is truly beautiful. I can understand why so many have mentioned it. ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/49 "2008-02-24T16:52:39Z")
Every Breath You Take - The Police. Yeah, just to mess with people’s heads. My friends would get it. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/50 "2008-02-24T16:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] **Bosca** : How are your comments about dumping Richard Nixon’s body in sewage related to “what music would you like at your funeral?” I’m assuming you’ve accidentally posted in the wrong thread, since the other assumption would be that you’re threadshitting… which is not nice. [/QUOTE] My apologies. I quote from Dr Thompson quite often, and I recalled one about funerals. I did not desire to disrupt the Thread. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/51 "2008-02-24T17:26:07Z")
[Every Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox](http://youtube.com/watch?v=ON0qcXzuUYU). My favorite singer. ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/52 "2008-02-24T17:48:01Z")
[QUOTE=Qadgop the Mercotan] Also a few chanted phrases in Quenya: “_Et Eärello Endorenna utúlie’n. Sinome maruvan tenn’ Ambar-metta! Utúlie’n lomë ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë. Auta nán i lomë! Aurë Entuluva!_” I won’t obligate my heirs to stick around after. 😉 [/QUOTE] **Qadgop** , will you translate for me? As for the OP, I’d have a hard time picking. \*Let it Be \* is a great choice, though. It probably would be the Beatles, whatever I chose. Possibly something by Bill Monroe, to recognize my bluegrass roots…_I Saw the Light_ maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/53 "2008-02-24T19:57:07Z")
I think the Quenya(Elvish) translation goes something like this, but when **Qadgop** comes back he’ll do a better job. _Out of the Great Sea to Middle Earth I am come. In this place until the end of the world! Night has come and all paths are drowned deep in shadow. (Auta) but the night! Day(sunlight) shall come again!_ The underlined word is something about leaving, or going away. I am not sure how it fits, I’m no expert. I hope\*\* QtM \*\* will show me where I have been wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/54 "2008-02-24T20:25:05Z")
Amazing Grace is something of a tradition in my dad’s family (who are Scots). It just doesn’t sound right on an organ; bagpipes are a must. (If my step-mother fails to arrange one for my dad’s funeral then I’ll be making sure a piper is present… and I’d want the same for me) 🙂 The Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol) would be an additional choice. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/55 "2008-02-24T20:31:38Z")
Siegfried’s Funeral March (Wagner)…so my loved ones can picture me kicking in the doors of Valhalla. For the more Christian viewpoint, Death, Where is thy Sting/But Thanks Be to God from Handel’s Messiah. And Worthy is the Lamb, as I’m singing in the heavenly choir. And then Sons of California, by the University of California Marching Band. (one of the Haas family (Levi Strauss heirs) actually did this) ---
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/56 "2008-02-24T21:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=Baker] I think the Quenya(Elvish) translation goes something like this, but when **Qadgop** comes back he’ll do a better job. _Out of the Great Sea to Middle Earth I am come. In this place until the end of the world! Night has come and all paths are drowned deep in shadow. (Auta) but the night! Day(sunlight) shall come again!_ The underlined word is something about leaving, or going away. I am not sure how it fits, I’m no expert. I hope\*\* QtM \*\* will show me where I have been wrong. [/QUOTE] Thanks. I recognized it…I knew the first part of the quote, but the last part had escaped me. I remember now. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/57 "2008-02-24T22:35:31Z")
The Requiem by Victoria (the six voice version). ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/58 "2008-02-25T00:18:03Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] Amazing Grace is something of a tradition in my dad’s family (who are Scots). It just doesn’t sound right on an organ; bagpipes are a must. (If my step-mother fails to arrange one for my dad’s funeral then I’ll be making sure a piper is present… and I’d want the same for me) 🙂 The Scottish Soldier (Green Hills Of Tyrol) would be an additional choice. [/QUOTE] The pipes should be used at the internment, outside, at least a quarter mile away, for a truly heart-breaking effect. I heard them while star-gazing in a field around midnight in Nova Scotia … Never though 'till now what the neighbors must have thought. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/59 "2008-02-25T01:04:12Z")
[QUOTE=j666] The pipes should be used at the internment, outside, at least a quarter mile away, for a truly heart-breaking effect. [/QUOTE] Agree entirely – if there’s a nearby hill available that’d be my first choice. Heard a piper playing one day at the summit of one of the many hills / volcanic cones that dot Auckland; overcast day, chill wind, lone piper… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/60 "2008-02-25T02:21:13Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] Agree entirely – if there’s a nearby hill available that’d be my first choice. Heard a piper playing one day at the summit of one of the many hills / volcanic cones that dot Auckland; overcast day, chill wind, lone piper… 🆒 [/QUOTE] Exactly. [Maybe a touch to the far side of the summit …] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840.md?page=4)