What is your list of songs you want played at your funeral?

Comment by Stu Reid on November 15, 2009 at 1:48pm

Oh ya - for me? It'll be Jules and the Polar Bear's "Convict" if only for the line "The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again."

Comment by Anchor in the Valley on November 15, 2009 at 2:38pm

"Forever Young" - Dylan

I love this discussion thread! I always think about songs that I want played at my funeral.

Comment by Kim Ruehl on November 15, 2009 at 7:44pm

I love Gillian Welch's version of "I'll Fly Away." Not a big gospel song person, but I like that one.

Andy - I think the framed tattoo is the sort of awkward and awful thing you gift to your next of kin.

Comment by The Medicine Show on November 16, 2009 at 9:08am

I get to pick a list every week, and enjoy listening to them myself too, that's way better <;-)>

Ide love Gypsy Dave Smith to play "may the circle be un broken" at some point, but I love that at anytime. Dave has never released an album, but is the best slide blues player Ive ever heard, and Ide hate to be at his funeral, so this way I figure I won't have to.

For my funeral music just stick on a Willard Grant Conspiracy cd (any one) and hit the random button I'll trust to providence and Robert to supply a suitably poignant interlude for all assembled, the only thing ide really insist on is a ripping band for the party after and dancing to occur, Ide hate the last chance for a right good medicine show to pass without it.

I'll set aside a bit to pay the band and get you all a drink.

Good Lord and creek willing Ive got time to save up for that.

If not sell my PA when your done with it.
Rob Ellen

Comment by hyperbolium.com on November 16, 2009 at 1:43pm

Patty Loveless' "Someday I Will Lead the Parade." Listen here.

It took me a couple of spins to realize she's singing about a funeral parade.

Comment by Patti Meredith on November 17, 2009 at 6:20am

Dixie Chicks, Not Ready to Make Nice

Comment by Cary Allen Fields on November 17, 2009 at 6:36am

Otis Gibbs "Bury Me On A Rainy Day," Jody Stecher & Kate Brislin "We Shall Meet Someday," Van Morrison "Into The Mystic," The Grateful Dead "Brokedown Palace," then Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys 'lining-out' on "Amazing Grace."

Comment by Bill Long on November 17, 2009 at 6:37am

Keep Me in Your Heart, Warren Zevon
Box of Rain, Hunter & Garcia
You Can't Always Get What You Want, Jagger & Richards

Comment by Tone Carlson on November 17, 2009 at 6:50am

I always had a variation of 4 songs I would like played but mostly settled on these:
"In My Hour of Darkness" Gram/Emmylou
"My Man" The Eagles
"I Saw the Light" Hank Williams
"Spaceship Orion" Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Nobody would get it though, everyone would look around thinking "What the Hell" (I'm from a town of about a thousand people in Nebraska).

Comment by Richard Flynn on November 17, 2009 at 7:18am

My late wife (who died nine years ago today) requested Gram Parsons's "In My Hour of Darkness." and her wishes were honored at the memorial service.

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