What song do you choose? Please one song only!
Do you pick something uplifting? Or melancholy? Do you pick your favorite song?
Instrumental so you could think your final thoughts in peace? Or maybe something you’ve never heard so you could get to experience new music one last time.
Would your choice be dependent on whether you were guilty or innocent and framed?
What would you one song be?
Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding, by Elton John/Bernie Taupin
From Wikipedia:
Longplayer is a musical composition made by British composer and musician Jem Finer which is composed to play for 1,000 years without looping. It started to play[vague] at midnight on 31 December 1999, and is expected to continue without repetition until 31 December 2999.
I would even be reasonable and let them join in progress rather than listening from the beginning, so it would only last 974 years.
“House of the Rising Sun.”
I hate that song with a passion. It’ll accomplish one of two things: it’ll either take forever to end, so I stay alive longer, or it’ll make me crave the sweet, sweet release of death.
Well, it has been the ruin of many a poor boy.
I listened to a podcast about this one a while back - As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia - but I’d never heard of Longplayer. Pretty cool that it was written by Jem Finer of The Pogues fame.
The original quartet version of 40 Days - Dave Brubeck.
Alternatively if I want to go out spitting in the face of my killers…
The violin instrumental Ashokan Farewell
That’s my thought process also. Play “Free Bird” and I’ll be begging them to kill me!
I think I’d choose Bandera - Willie Nelson
No laments or dirge, that’s for sure, and I won’t be in the mood for any damn reflecting on my life or the wonders of the human condition. I’d choose Surfin’ Bird. The ultimate “Fuck you, I don’t care” song.
I would request the vinyl LP version of Rush’s “By-Tor and the Snow Dog”. It was the last song on side 1 of their “Fly By Night” album, and the end of the song continued into the runout groove, endlessly looping over and over.
This question was asked of two condemned convicts.
One requested “Achy, Breaky Heart.”
The other begged “Please, kill me first!” 
“Ashokan Farewell” is an excellent choice, just as “Be Thou My Vision” would be. I’d likely choose the latter.
The music from “99,000,000,000 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall” with trombone, tuba, bagpipe and harpsichord sung by the duet of Bobcat Goldthwait and Gilbert Gottfried, with backup from Alvin And The Chipmunks.
They will hand me a full pardon, the keys and a blank check just to go away.
Gotta be Dylan. I think “Every Grain of Sand” would be my choice, although I’m tempted by “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on sheer length.
My all-time favorite song:
All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix.
I’d want to savor his brilliant artistry one last time.
