# Your funeral song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827 "2015-02-04T18:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/21 "2015-02-04T21:53:24Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > Sorrry for the course language but I’m serious. > > Probably [My Shit’s Fucked Up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDdqubE7zQ) by Warren Zevon. > > I have a friend who wants me to learn to play this for his funeral. Of course, it’s much harder to play than Warren makes it look. Good choice. I would probably choose “Don’t Let Us Get Sick”, also by Warren Zevon. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ELe4vC3oM5E/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGH8gOygzMA8=&rs=AOn4CLB_83Dc4OUj8y6AsjKdvxpQDgbo3A "Warren Zevon - Don't Let Us Get Sick") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELe4vC3oM5E) ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/22 "2015-02-04T21:59:49Z")
Douse my freshly cooked corpse in LSD and “'cuse me while I kiss the sky!” [Purple Haze](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwWjx7Cw8I) ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/23 "2015-02-04T22:00:50Z")
Tomorrow Never Knows. [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg477ig_bwE) ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/24 "2015-02-04T22:58:23Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Not _The Earth Died Screaming_ ? Or _Hell Broke Luce_. Or _Singapore_. Okay, fuggit. Just play the entire Waits catalog and serve a hell of an endless buffet. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/25 "2015-02-04T23:04:41Z")
Since I want a church funeral, I’m going with “Be Thou My Vision” and “Softly and Tenderly.” ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/26 "2015-02-04T23:08:37Z")
[Fly me to the Moon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhujM7T1_fQ) (the Sinatra version) or Lou Reed’s [Perfect Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYEC4TZsy-Y), and the middle part of Holst’s Jupiter, also used for the hymn I vow to thee my country and played at [Churchill’s funeral](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Xkr8z3lEo) - hey if it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me!) ---
**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:** [February 4, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/27 "2015-02-04T23:34:35Z")
[Australia - The Shins.](http://youtu.be/OHTSxw6zN1E) It was important to me at a time when I really needed it. ---
**Author:** ![Marlonius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Marlonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlonius)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/28 "2015-02-05T01:10:05Z")
I’ve always been partial to Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas” as a send off for myself. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/29 "2015-02-05T01:53:43Z")
I’ve said it before – I insist on having “Rainbow Connection” sung at my funeral. That and I want a knock-knock joke. Not fussy about which one – but I want one. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/30 "2015-02-05T01:56:59Z")
I’d like to have [Ripple](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUIjh8j_aDI) by the Grateful Dead. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/31 "2015-02-05T02:20:10Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > REM-[“Try Not to Breathe.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RokyGRQP0no) Nice choice, I hadn’t thought of that song in that context. But mine is still [Elvis Costello’s Favourite Hour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db0QeIJrUFA). I was privileged to be in the hall when he sang this at the end of a concert here in Sydney. He had them turn off all amplification and just filled the hall with his naked voice; he may not have a great range but he has great power - emotional and otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/32 "2015-02-05T02:51:52Z")
I’ve never really thought about it and I hate dreary funerals but there is one song about death that chokes me up. _At Least_, by Baby Dayliner ([youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lON7Ur8RD00)) I typed out the lyrics long ago and they may not be 100% right, but I still can’t find them anywhere else: \*The end of the line is lonely Like a heart without a homie Like a star without a galaxy Like a star without a movie \* ---
**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:** [February 5, 2015, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/33 "2015-02-05T03:01:53Z")
AD-DC Highway to Hell. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/34 "2015-02-05T03:10:14Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Okay, fuggit. Just play the entire Waits catalog and serve a hell of an endless buffet. If I wanted a whole catalog, it would have to be the two boxes of Eno sitting on the end table here. It would be a “celebration of life”, beginning with a toast to the classic, “_the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake is: one less drunk person_”. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/35 "2015-02-05T03:37:41Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > “I’ll Fly Away” Allison Krauss > > [http://youtu.be/IGMXoWe2ztE](http://youtu.be/IGMXoWe2ztE) > > “Just a few more weary days and then, I’ll fly away! > To a land where joys will never end, I’ll fly away!” Nice one. For me: **When They Ring Those Golden Bells** \*\*Blow Gabriel Blow \*\*from the De-Lovely soundtrack and in church a few, including **Sing With All the Saints in Glory** ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/36 "2015-02-05T03:52:45Z")
Grateful Dead - _Box of Rain_ But, I’m in the burn-and-scatter club, so no viewing/music/service will never happen. ---
**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:** [February 5, 2015, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/37 "2015-02-05T04:01:27Z")
I don’t have any problem with music at my cremation. I’ve chosen the last movement of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy (soloist and conductor) and the Cleveland Orchestra. Following this will be Porky Pig’s “Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/38 "2015-02-05T04:44:49Z")
[“Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BeKhlUzPUc) Or Sarah McLachlan’s version of [“The Rainbow Connection”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEoPKwBJfo). (That’s been one of my favorite songs since I was a kid, and I LOVE her version of it!) ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/39 "2015-02-05T05:02:30Z")
It’s not really going to matter to me. I won’t hear it. Whoever survives me can play whatever they want. If they want to remember me fondly, that’ll probably be some Grateful Dead - both Box of Rain and Ripple as noted above would be good selections, as would Brokedown Palace. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/40 "2015-02-05T05:14:38Z")
I don’t care. I’ll be dead. I guess as a last final joke, I’d make everyone listen to something like “Christmas Shoes” or similar. My wife despises _“Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl)”_ , so that might be fun. But it won’t be up to me, will it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827.md?page=3)