# What Song(s) Do You Want Played At Your Funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264 "2009-11-28T19:43:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/21 "2009-11-29T03:15:32Z")
“Epitaph” from the Repo! The Genetic Opera soundtrack, just for these lines: \* 'Cause we all end up in a tiny pine box A mighty short drop And a mighty dark plot And the might fine print hastens the trip To our epilogue\* ---
**Author:** ![Harry1945](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Harry1945](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harry1945)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/22 "2009-11-29T03:15:39Z")
[The Navy Hymn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDjwUzUnNpU&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/23 "2009-11-29T03:27:50Z")
My wife has specific instructions to play,“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s “The Life of Brian” at my funeral. ---
**Author:** ![lucky\_henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@lucky\_henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lucky_henry)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/24 "2009-11-29T03:43:54Z")
The Lucky One by Alison Krauss pretty much sums up my more-than-fifty years. I Take My Chances by Mary Chapin Carpenter is my personal philosophy for living Bristlecone Pine by Michael Johnson describes what I would like done with my body/ashes. I’ve made sure that the people who are likely to be in charge of my final disposition are aware of my wishes. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/25 "2009-11-29T04:13:20Z")
You Can’t Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones Nessun Dorma - Calaf’s Aria from Puccini’s Turandot ---
**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 29, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/26 "2009-11-29T04:24:32Z")
Here’s my funeral song list. Pick one. I bored people enough in life, let’s get to the buffet! What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong Into The Mystic I Would Give Everything I Own – Bread Ooh Child The Five Stairsteps Ave Maria – Schubert Peace Train – 10,000 maniacs Over the Rainbow – Israel Kam Fire and Rain – James Taylor Box of Rain – Grateful Dead Birdsong – Grateful Dead Back on the Chain Gang – Pretenders Tiny Dancer – Elton John Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Dylan Mr. Tambourine Man – Dylan I’m Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves May the Circle Be Unbroken --Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Amazing Grace on bagpipes Scotland the Brave on bagpipes Siegfried’s funeral march from Wagner’s Gotterdammerung ---
**Author:** ![General\_Derangement](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@General\_Derangement](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/General_Derangement)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/27 "2009-11-29T04:48:56Z")
“Another one bites the dust”. Because the title is so incredibly appropriate for a funeral. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/28 "2009-11-29T04:56:22Z")
John Prine’s “Please Don’t Bury Me.” Chorus: Please don’t bury me Down in that cold cold ground No, I’d druther have “em” cut me up And pass me all around… ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/29 "2009-11-29T05:55:51Z")
I don’t want a funeral but I don’t think I’m going to have a choice in the matter. 😛 A bit of a mix between religious (for the pro-funeral people) and not (for me). My list right now is: Always look on the bright side of life I’ll Fly Away (the bluegrass version from Oh Brother Where Art Thou) Guide me, oh thou great redeemer (Cwm Rhondda) ELCA green hymnal – Earth and all stars You’ll Never Walk Alone ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/30 "2009-11-29T06:20:29Z")
The first verse of “Ode to Joy” and the verse which begins “Mortals join the happy chorus…” ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/31 "2009-11-29T06:22:51Z")
I have two odd requests for my funeral that both my wife and Pastor are well aware of. I want a knock-knock joke somewhere in the eulogy. The other is to have the closing hymn be “Rainbow Connection”. If they can get someone to sing it as Kermit the Frog, all the better. I’ve laughed my way through a strange life and never lost the will to dream; if I can leave a seed of that behind, my job is done. PS - both also know that if they dare use “On Eagle’s Wings” I will claw my way out of the grave and start a zombie apocalypse all by myself. I really and truly hate that song. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/32 "2009-11-29T06:45:53Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Crash Test Dummies, At My [Funeral](http://www.mojvideo.com/video-crash-test-dummies-at-my-funeral/2dbe2692d872733f2117). > [Princess and the Pony](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKMIq7tBBbA), by Har Mar Superstar (This is obviously not his video, but the only non-live version of the song I could find) If only for the line “Shake your ass around my casket” Princess and the Pony is Sean-na-na, not Harmar. Or, aren’t they one and the same? Or related somehow? I can’t remember ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/33 "2009-11-29T08:39:51Z")
Ashokan Farewell, by Jay Unger. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/34 "2009-11-29T09:01:47Z")
I Wanna be Sedated by the Ramones I Did It My Way by Sid Vicious ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/35 "2009-11-29T09:22:12Z")
The _Internationale_, for starters. Sung by all in attendance. I once had the honor of leading it for a friend who left us far too early, and it was inspiring. I don’t know the exact title to this one, but there’s a Sigur Ros song whose lyrics consist entirely of the line “I’m going into a field to lie down” - entirely appropriate, IMO. Beyond that I haven’t given it much thought. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/36 "2009-11-29T11:01:07Z")
Mr Brightside. ---
**Author:** ![Snite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Snite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snite)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/37 "2009-11-29T11:22:31Z")
[This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Xn-DWHuuM&feature=related) because definitely the second verse sums up how I really feel and the chorus is the truth. I’ll be going home. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/38 "2009-11-29T13:31:09Z")
Moving this – at a nice dirgelike pace – over to Cafe Society. twickster, MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/39 "2009-11-29T13:49:00Z")
This version of [I’ll See You In My Dreams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqoRLsrCST0) Great way to start a party. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264/40 "2009-11-29T21:20:12Z")
**Let It Be** by the Beatles. The version from Past Masters, not the album version. Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-s-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/519264.md?page=3)