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Funeral Music...
You ever contemplate the music you want played at your funeral?...This one is definitely on the play;list for me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNuCbQcZe5w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNuCbQcZe5w
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"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Not a cowboy, but if I were, it might be nice enough.
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
Of couse! Why do you think I wrote such a loving epitaph.
Yeah, but that kinda music is not my bag for burying. However, Like Kayaker said, it ain't like I'm gonna be drinking beer or dancing, so they can play Sweet Adeline for all I care, :silly::roll2::rotflmao:
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
SA-LAMMMM! Ouch! lol!!
Some of it is rather irreverent. I want folks to smile and laugh remembering my life.
Go to the 6:14 mark in this one to here one of my selections. Appropriately enough, it's entitled "Funeral" by Mac McAnally
http://youtu.be/_lxhzf-YxeM?t=6m14s
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
A friend of mine did the same thing with her funeral. She planned it all; choosing who would speak, who would sing what songs, the whole nine yards. She had another friend of ours, who is actually my manager, sing "I Can Only Imagine," by Mercy Me. He spent a long time in his office listening to the song, trying to make it a little less emotional for him, so he would be able to make it through the whole thing.
Most threads kinda take on a life of their own, huh? You never know what SQUIRREL!!!!!!!
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Bu-bump, crash! :tooth:
"If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
What you expect from a bunch of stiffs? :rotflmao:
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Ha!Ha!Ha!
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
Bach Fugue in G Major (The Jig) BWV 577 -- absolutely a jumpin' tune! **
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ncVblmduSQ
Easter Hymn "The Strife is O'er"
Easter Hymn "Welcome Happy Morning"
Hymn "Amazing Grace"
** My sister always had a fanciful story, said that if "they" could make a microphone that would fit inside an atom, and if they lowered it down into the atom and switched it on, out would come a Bach fugue.
"Drift Away" by Dobie Gray
"You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" by Hank Williams, Jr.
"The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me" by Gladys Knight & the Pips
"Candle In the Wind" by Elton John
"The River" by Garth Brooks
Well, hmmm... two things come to mind. First, on a rather serious note, most Christians and other believers would have a departure / goodbye ceremony. Second, funerals aren't for the dead guy but provide a bit of closure for the family and friends.
And they aren't supposed to be dreary -- that's pagan, with no afterlife. "Believers" of various segments really need a happy and celebratory sendoff. Church where I go (Episcopal) specifically says that the burial service is an Easter ritual, one of joy in the passing and at the same time solemnity that we miss the person.
My Dad stipulated NO CRYING at his funeral, instead a celebration. All his old business and government pals came (Dad had many LEO and First Responder friends) and the reception was full of jokes ("remember when Sam did this?" type of stuff).
Me, I want a short church byebye then I've stipulated that everyone gather at the Alabama Icehouse and Rudyard's Brit Pub for the REAL party.
That's exactly how I feel, bh! When I get there I'm gonna order the fastest, sleekest roadrace sport bike they've got in inventory. It's gotta be guaranteed to go 100mph in 3rd gear!
Ha! Trying to control thread drift in this forum is like herding cats. Ain't gonna happen.
The family picked an instrumental version of Streets Of Laredo to play at my friends funeral. That was really cool.
Dad 5-31-13
But there was this woman, she'd had a huge crush on the guy for ages, he and his wife knew of it, paid no attention. But at the funeral "wake" she shows up with her guitar, drunk, and proceeds to, er, "sing" a song she'd written to commemorate him, but it was this goofy and punchy love ballad, which of course she butchered. It was awful but the widow let her do it anyway, knowing that the gal would end up being the worse for it. Nevertheless all of us were chagrined and embarrassed. Whew!
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I know what I'm doing, it just doesn't look like it.
But as for music, I've always said.
Knockin on Heavens Door: by Bob Dylan
The Dance: by Garth Brooks
As for the song you posted, I liked it.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov