# What song do you want played at your funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548 "2000-10-19T16:42:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/181 "2014-01-12T19:00:19Z")
Half a verse of Dylan’s _Restless Farewell_: The bottles are done We’ve killed each one The table’s full and overflowed And the corner sign Says it’s closing time So I’ll bid farewell and be down the road. Followed by Brel’s _J’Arrive_: Coming! I’m coming But oh how I would have liked To one more time drag my bones To the sun. Until summer Until tomorrow, until next spring Coming! I’m coming But oh how I would have liked To one more time see if the river Is still a river, see if the harbour Is still a harbour, still see myself there Coming! I’m coming But why me? Why now? Why so soon and where to? Coming! Of course I’m coming Have I ever done anything else but come? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/182 "2014-01-12T19:18:03Z")
Strange. Looking through all the past posts, there’s one from a poster who has since changed his name, but his OLD screen-name is attributed. I thought that when you changed usernames, all your previous posts got changed too (with exceptions for where you have been quoted). 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/183 "2014-01-12T19:27:54Z")
.Definitely "Always look on the bright side of life " from Monty Pythons Life of Brian . ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/184 "2014-01-12T22:09:09Z")
[In Paradisum](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-i1ESIRKdA) Gabriel Fauré [Your Long Journey](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9TmJBBKYmU) Alison Krauss & Robert Plant That would do it for me. I’d cry in my grave. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2014, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/185 "2014-01-12T23:30:35Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Strange. Looking through all the past posts, there’s one from a poster who has since changed his name, but his OLD screen-name is attributed. I thought that when you changed usernames, all your previous posts got changed too (with exceptions for where you have been quoted). > > 😕 I think that’s true only for posts since we made the change from UBB to vB. My WAG was that happened during the winter of 2002. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > You revived a ten and a half year old thread…but I wonder if any of those who posted got their wish? Actually, it’s a 13 year old thread (from late 2000) that was resurrected a first time in 2003. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/186 "2014-01-13T00:00:29Z")
Ahh, that’d explain it. Thanks \*\*RTFirefly \*\*. ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/187 "2014-01-13T16:23:41Z")
And, for the wake, please play me these: [Its Too Late, She’s Gone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eht65php2_Q) Derek & the Dominoes [Come Softly to Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvkj4TiSaNQ) The Fleetwoods [Angel Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xm3qnh1sck) Rosie & the Originals Hope this isnt prophetic in any way, but you never know. Good to get your ducks in a row! ---
**Author:** ![SerafinaPekala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SerafinaPekala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SerafinaPekala)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/188 "2014-01-13T17:03:51Z")
Of course do The [Stroll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGLNtZ0rEg) at the wake. Cos its the kind of dance white people do! ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/189 "2014-01-13T18:16:03Z")
_Amazing Grace_ ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/190 "2014-01-13T18:58:51Z")
Personally I’d like Siniestro Total’s “Quiénes somos, de dónde venimos, a dónde vamos” (who are we, where do we come from, where are we going), preferably followed by the same punk band’s “somos Siniestro Total” (we are Siniestro Total/we are a total wreck), but I doubt whomever is officiating would be willing. So it’ll have to be Simon and Garfunkel’s Lord’s Prayer (to the tune of The Sound of Silence). The multiple levels of irony escape most of the people who sing it. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/191 "2014-01-13T19:49:20Z")
Amazing Grace, but sung to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/192 "2014-01-13T20:08:05Z")
“Old and Wise,” Alan Parsons Project ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/193 "2014-01-13T20:29:16Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Amazing Grace, but sung to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” The [Blind Boys of Alabama](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4k76VjGdY)do it that way. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/194 "2014-01-13T21:38:47Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Amazing Grace, but sung to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” How about [to the tune of](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=675269) the theme music to “Leave It To Beaver”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/195 "2014-01-13T21:48:46Z")
> [@Mauve\_Dog](#): > > Any of these choices: > > 1. Gymnopédie, No. 1, by Erik Satie They played this at the funeral of of my friend’s 4 year old son who died of meningitis. That was brutal. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/196 "2014-01-13T21:50:00Z")
Anthony Phillips - The Geese Fly West. ---
**Author:** ![randompattern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@randompattern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randompattern)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/197 "2014-01-13T21:55:56Z")
Right before everyone leaves, just for laughs. Wake Me Up Before You Go Go ~ Wham! ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/198 "2014-01-13T22:20:27Z")
Like any good Episcopalian, I’m not allowing anyone to leave before the entire congregation sings all eight stanzas of [For All the Saints](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_the_Saints). (#287 in the _Hymnal 1982_ found in your pew.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/199 "2014-01-13T22:23:24Z")
[Kiss Your Ass Goodbye](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA6Eh_sflNU) ---
**Author:** ![DrumBum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e79b87/32.png) [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/200 "2014-01-14T13:37:04Z")
[Are you Drinking With Me Jesus ?](http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/jellobiafra/areyoudrinkinwithmejesus.html) by Jellow Biafra and Mojo Nixon. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548.md?page=11)