# Your funeral music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740 "2014-04-23T04:05:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/1 "2014-04-23T04:05:19Z")
I don’t want to hijack the Easter hymns thread, but because we’ve started mentioning funeral music I want to start yet another version of “What you will have at your funeral/internment” In post #35 of the Easter hymns thread Northern Piper listed the other funeral music threads, and the newest one is almost four years old. > [@Easter Hymns](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easter-hymns/686515/35): > > Here you go: > > [Top 10 Funeral Songs?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=390985) > > [Name Your Funeral Music](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=405164) > > [Your Funeral Song](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=485413) > > [What music should be played at your funeral/wake?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=570804) > > [What song(s) do you want played at your funeral?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=541744) > > [Songs at your funeral](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=584711&highlight=funeral) > > [What song do you want played at your funeral?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=42862) So, I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours. I’m going to be having a by the book funeral out of the Episcopal book of Common Prayer. Four hymns, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", “I Know That my Redeemer Lives”, “Thine Be the Glory” and “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” I’ve also instructed that the music played beforehand be loud, not that soft and solemn garbage that’s often played. I love good organ music, and my funeral will be the last chance I ever have to have things my way. So, religious or non-religious, whatever style you like, do you have your music planned? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/2 "2014-04-23T04:19:25Z")
I stand by my previous selections: “40 Days” by The Dave Brubeck Quartet as I go out, and Molly Hatchett’s “Flirting With Disaster” at the service. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/3 "2014-04-23T04:24:04Z")
“Don’t Let Us Get Sick”-Warren Zevon [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ELe4vC3oM5E/hqdefault.jpg "Warren Zevon - Don't Let Us Get Sick") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELe4vC3oM5E) ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/4 "2014-04-23T04:47:50Z")
I’d like [Ripple](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdTQ3OPtGY), by the Grateful Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/5 "2014-04-23T04:53:59Z")
[The theme song from The Johnny Carson show.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keiuXB3dJ0E) ---
**Author:** ![tim314](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim314/32/3468_2.png) [@tim314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tim314)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/6 "2014-04-23T05:05:32Z")
Celebrate Good Tims Come on! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/7 "2014-04-23T05:19:22Z")
My selections from the fifth link in the OP haven’t changed. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/8 "2014-04-23T05:28:13Z")
I scrolled through all of the linked threads. In the ones I participated in,\* Free Bird\* is always my choice. In the ones that allow more than one selection, _Amazing Grace_ (on bagpipes) and \*Dixie _(a slow, mournful version) are constants. The three songs that varied were \* Immigrant Song_, _Simple Man_ (Skynyrd, not Charlie Daniels) and _Behind Blue Eyes_. If I go before my wife, then I’d add _Lady_-as performed by Kenny Rogers, for her. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/9 "2014-04-23T05:38:10Z")
Beethoven’s [Piano Concerto No. 5, Movement III.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjmjnqbDn0M&index=9&list=PL7FAA142389290F45) [Loreena McKennitt—Prospero’s Speech](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcunFaThJtQ). (This or her [Cymbeline](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcTBD8bVrU4)) Aaaaaand, about half the selections from the top 20 “Most Played” section of my iTunes playlist. As usual. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/10 "2014-04-23T05:48:07Z")
For me? The SNL outro music. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPAeCZZstK4) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/11 "2014-04-23T05:50:09Z")
“Funeral March for a Papagallo” by Charles Valentin Alkan. Also, “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You.” Just for fun. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/12 "2014-04-23T06:47:10Z")
If I’ve taken part in any of the other threads, I’d be very surprised if this isn’t what I specified: Frank Zappa “ **Son Of Mister Green Genes**.” It’s an instrumental piece of music that has calmed, centered, and made me feel that “all is well” for over 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/13 "2014-04-23T09:05:38Z")
The Requiem Mass by Tomas Luis de Victoria. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/14 "2014-04-23T09:16:17Z")
As they wheel the coffin out, Highway to Hell by AC DC. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/15 "2014-04-23T11:30:04Z")
“I’ll Fly Away” by Allison Krause “Just a few more weary days and then, I’ll fly away! To a place where joys will never end, I’ll fly away” She has a most lovely voice and the song is somewhat cheery and uplifting. I encourage you to give it a listen. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/16 "2014-04-23T12:08:11Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > As they wheel the coffin out, Highway to Hell by AC DC. It has such soothing words of solace for the grieving mothers in attendance, too. “Hey mama! Look at me! I’m on my way to the promised land!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/17 "2014-04-23T12:15:20Z")
I’m kinda conventional. I’ll stick with the Mozart Requiem. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/18 "2014-04-23T13:23:15Z")
Anything but bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/19 "2014-04-23T13:35:01Z")
On Eagles Wings ---
**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:** [April 23, 2014, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740/20 "2014-04-23T13:37:36Z")
I want “Amazing Grace” but sung to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” No, seriously, try it! It’s stunning. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-music/686740.md?page=2)