Der Ring des Nibelungen. All of it.
That’s just brilliant.
“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.
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.
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
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.
One song? Damn.
I’d let my Mom pick it.
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.
Every Breath You Take - The Police.
Yeah, just to mess with people’s heads. My friends would get it.
My apologies.
I quote from Dr Thompson quite often, and I recalled one about funerals.
I did not desire to disrupt the Thread.
Every Time We Say Goodbye - Annie Lennox.
My favorite singer.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Thanks. I recognized it…I knew the first part of the quote, but the last part had escaped me. I remember now. :smack:
The Requiem by Victoria (the six voice version).
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.
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… 
Exactly.
[Maybe a touch to the far side of the summit …]