Ship of Fools: Funeral song fun

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Posted by The Phantom Flan Flinger (# 8891) on :

Kind of an off-shoot from the “funeral fun” thread, what appropriate / inappropriate songs are there for funerals?

A few suggestions:
Status Quo – Down Down
The Jam – Going Underground

For a cremation:
Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire (You’re gonna burn, burn, burn, burn…..)
Trammps – Disco Inferno.

Posted by Spike (# 36) on :

Clodagh Rogers - jack in the Box
The Platters - Smoke gets in your eyes

Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :

Johnny Cash- Ring of Fire

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

Cremations
Colours of Day - refrain So light up the fire and let the flame burn...
Will you come and follow me

Then off to the flames to Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye

Posted by Poppy (# 2000) on :

Firestarter - Prodigy

Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

Colours of Day which has the chorus 'So light up the fire and let the flame burn'

Posted by Charles Read (# 3963) on :

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

("Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me...")

That was actually requested at a funeral a colleague was taking. He steered the family away from it.

Posted by Thurible (# 3206) on :

"If you don't know me by now."

Thurible

Posted by Bene Gesserit (# 14718) on :

Hey you - get off my cloud (Rolling Stones)

Posted by Aravis (# 13824) on :

"Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning".

A vicar I know once had to take a funeral where the family had requested "Give me peace in my heart, keep me resting" without realising that the crematorium hymnbook had "Give me oil..." as the final verse.

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

Tacky, tacky! I wish to be pursued at supersonic speeds at age 90 with my hair on fire by a disgruntled father whose daughter has just been deflowered by me when she was age 21. It could happen: Picasso was a father in his 90s!

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bene Gesserit:
Hey you - get off my cloud (Rolling Stones)

Works for me!

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

A good friend who died young requested some Noel Coward as his body left the church and we all sat and listened right to the end; the song? There are bad times just around the corner [Killing me]

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
It could happen: Picasso was a father in his 90s!

While he lived to be 91, his last child (Paloma) was born in 1949, when he was 68.

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Charles Read:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

("Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me...")

That was actually requested at a funeral a colleague was taking. He steered the family away from it.

If I make a request for my funeral and my family is "steered away from it" I'll bloody well come and haunt the cleric responsible.

Posted by mrs whibley (# 4798) on :

quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
Cremations
Colours of Day - refrain So light up the fire and let the flame burn...
Will you come and follow me

Then off to the flames to Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye

My grandmother had the latter ( but not the former). My mother forbad us to laugh; I did, partly because I couldn't help myself, but mainly because that was surely Nan's intention in choosing it!

Posted by Ann (# 94) on :

Bernard Cribbins - Hole in the Ground

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Firenze:

quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
It could happen: Picasso was a father in his 90s!
While he lived to be 91, his last child (Paloma) was born in 1949, when he was 68.

Sorry that was different. I do not believe that Paloma is older than me. I shall be 60 on the 2nd of January.

Posted by Rosa Winkel (# 11424) on :

A few Slayer songs, such as Hell Awaits or South of Heaven.

Evil by Merciful Fate.

Lest anyone think that metal makes light of death, I'd seriously have Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden at my funeral.

Posted by Gwalchmai (# 17802) on :

For a butcher: Sheep may safely graze
For a surveyor: When I survey the wondrous cross
For a lawyer: Pleasant are thy courts above, or Just as I am without one plea

Posted by SvitlanaV2 (# 16967) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:

quote:
Originally posted by Charles Read:
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

("Beelzebub has a devil set aside for me...")

That was actually requested at a funeral a colleague was taking. He steered the family away from it.
If I make a request for my funeral and my family is "steered away from it" I'll bloody well come and haunt the cleric responsible.

This is why I hope to be buried by someone who knows and understands me, rather than by a random cleric whose churchmanship I don't share, and whose church I would never have attended were I alive!

But talking of Queen, there is 'Another One Bites the Dust', of course. And if you're leaving a widow behind you shouldn't choose one of those pop songs about adultery, e.g. Bryan Adams' 'Run to You'....

[ 30. August 2013, 22:52: Message edited by: SvitlanaV2 ]

Posted by ArachnidinElmet (# 17346) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Rosa Winkel:
Lest anyone think that metal makes light of death, I'd seriously have Hallowed Be Thy Name by Iron Maiden at my funeral.

But probably not Maiden's "Only the Good Die Young". [Biased]

How about 'Heaven can Wait' or 'Can You Dig It'? for the graveside.

Posted by Mudfrog (# 8116) on :

A song in our songbook, quoted as a tribute, by request, at the crem just before the prayer before the committal:

1. My body, soul and spirit,
Jesus I give to thee,
A consecrated offering,
thine evermore to be

refrain;
My all is on the altar,
I'm waiting for the fire;
Waiting, waiting, waiting,
I'm waiting for the fire.

2. O let the fire, descending
just now upon my soul,
consume my humble offering,
And cleanse and make me whole.

When I stood up to pray I had to call for 'a moment of silence' not least because of the smirks and shaking shoulders in the congregation!

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

Sir Kevin : (Anne) Paloma Picasso was born 19th April 1949 - that makes her 64. [Smile]

Posted by georgiaboy (# 11294) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Gwalchmai:
For a butcher: Sheep may safely graze
For a surveyor: When I survey the wondrous cross
For a lawyer: Pleasant are thy courts above, or Just as I am without one plea

Adding to the list:
For a dentist: Abide with me (for the line 'change and decay in all around I see'

Posted by churchgeek (# 5557) on :

The Smiths, "I Know it's Over" ("Oh, mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head...")

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

For a Lifeboatman

In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time...

Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :

...and as an organist I hope they give me O Praise ye the Lord - verse three "loud organs his glory forthtell..." [Smile]

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