# What music should be played at your funeral/wake?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-should-be-played-at-your-funeral-wake/546672>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 14, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-should-be-played-at-your-funeral-wake/546672 "2010-07-14T16:18:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-should-be-played-at-your-funeral-wake/546672/81 "2010-08-10T15:04:02Z")

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My #1 choice would be “Solsbury Hill”, beginning with piano, clarinet, and voice, then adding drum kit and guitar on the second verse, and bringing in a drumming circle for the last verse.

Failing that, “Let It Be”.

I wish I could say that I’ve earned “The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn”, but I haven’t.

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**Author:** ![Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e57/32.png) [@Fried\_Dough\_Ho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fried_Dough_Ho)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-should-be-played-at-your-funeral-wake/546672/82 "2010-08-10T15:16:54Z")

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> [@racer72](#):
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> > [@Chronos](#):
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> > I don’t have any specific song requests, but it’s just not a proper funeral without bagpipes.
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> I will come back and haunt anyone that plays anything with bagpipes at my funeral.

My goodness I have always begged to have bagpipes at my funeral too! A year ago I heard two boys playing on a street corner in San Francisco. They were probably 16 and 18 years old, playing _Stairway to Heaven_. I was enthralled and charmed and tipped them $50 for their joie de vivre.

Along with that tune, I’d ask for _Jerusalem_,\* Danny Boy\*, and _The Minstrel Boy_(just because I’m an Anglophile)

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**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:** [August 10, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-should-be-played-at-your-funeral-wake/546672/83 "2010-08-10T17:51:22Z")

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Whiter Shade of Pale, King Curtis version (Withnail & I)

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**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-should-be-played-at-your-funeral-wake/546672/84 "2010-08-10T18:46:19Z")

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So I’m the only one who wants the cantina band music from Star Wars?

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