# Songs at your funeral **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859 "2010-11-08T02:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/1 "2010-11-08T02:40:02Z")
What songs would you like played at your funeral? Which songs would make you turn over in your grave/coffin if they were played? I like Ave Maria, but don’t want “Eagles Wings.” I liked the song “Bye, Bye Baby” as played at a funeral in the movie Love Actually, but I’m sure the priest won’t go for that. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/2 "2010-11-08T03:11:13Z")
The six voice setting of the Requiem by [Tomás Luis de Victoria](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Luis_de_Victoria) ---
**Author:** ![multimediac17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@multimediac17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/multimediac17)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/3 "2010-11-08T03:15:15Z")
[‘Lifted’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-nDhvOkkKE) by Eurythmics. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/4 "2010-11-08T03:45:30Z")
We’ve done this before and my answer hasn’t changed. [Australia](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTSxw6zN1E) by The Shins ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/5 "2010-11-08T04:01:55Z")
“No one mourns the Wicked” from Wicked “People Ain’t No Good” by Nick Cave “It’s All Right to Cry” by Rosie Greer “Troisieme Lecon de Tenebres a deux voix” by Couperin “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from the Peer Gynt Suite ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/6 "2010-11-08T04:32:03Z")
All You Need is Love, and maybe some early AC/DC ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/7 "2010-11-08T04:49:44Z")
_Ripple_, by the Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/8 "2010-11-08T04:50:53Z")
The King Curtis instrumental version of “A Whiter Shade of Pale” from _Withnail and I_. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/9 "2010-11-08T18:37:51Z")
I don’t know what I’d want played at my funeral, but it creeps me out that not only does my mom know, but she has it on CD and plays her funeral CD in the car. (I get that it’s music she likes, but why not just call it that, then?) ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/10 "2010-11-08T18:41:38Z")
“Hand Me the Wine & the Dice,” by _Aspects of Love_. The rare Lloyd Webber musical that doesn’t suck. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/11 "2010-11-08T18:49:01Z")
Play: _Free Bird_, which isn’t actually AKA _Oak’s Anthem_, but should be. _Simple Man_ _Dixie_–slow, mournful version. _Amazing Grace_–on bagpipes. Do not play: _Battle Hymn of the Republic_–I will get out of the casket and whip your ass. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/12 "2010-11-08T18:49:07Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > _Ripple_, by the Grateful Dead How about Birdsong and Box of Rain? Both are more obviously requiems. Into the Mystic by Van Morrison ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/13 "2010-11-08T19:27:21Z")
All Sinatra, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/14 "2010-11-08T19:29:23Z")
Always look at the Bright Side of Life ,Monte Python (Eric Idle) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/15 "2010-11-08T20:29:21Z")
Beethoven’s Eleventh Symphony. I ain’t dyin’ until I’ve got a CD of it to be turned over to the funeral director. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/16 "2010-11-08T21:29:17Z")
We have indeed done this before, but my answer has changed a bit. If they can get the proper musicians together: Solsbury Hill. If not: Let It Be. Most everybody can do that one. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/17 "2010-11-08T21:53:16Z")
My Way - Sid Vicious Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue Hell Awaits - Slayer But really, fuck it, I’ll not be listening. Anyone who bothers to turn up can pick a song. ---
**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:** [November 9, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/18 "2010-11-09T02:33:09Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Play: > … > _Amazing Grace_–on bagpipes. Yep, if I don’t get this at my funeral I’m coming back to haunt someone. 🙂 And since they’ll have a piper present – they’d better – I may as well chuck in “A Scottish Soldier / The Green Hills of Tyrol”… and perhaps “The Skye Boat Song” too. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/19 "2010-11-09T02:54:48Z")
Don’t give a shit, as I will be dead and not there to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/20 "2010-11-09T03:08:09Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > _Amazing Grace_–on bagpipes. I don’t care who you are or what your heritage is, Amazing Grace on bagpipes is always appropriate. Beyond that, I would actually like a classical requiem like Mozart’s or Verdi’s. I also would love to have a modern one. For instance, I would love to have Virgin Black’s take on it (obligatory youtube [link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWnRwqpFPQ), if you don’t like the growling, at least skip to 2:20ish for the main theme and choral overlay), I just wouldn’t be sure how well it would really… play out. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859.md?page=2)