Lilah ,'Conviction (1)'
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I really, really can't imagine any of those songs at a funeral. Well, except Requiem.
But I'm really one to talk since we had Yellow Rose of Texas played at my grandpa's funeral. Which made no sense to anyone out of the loop. He wasn't a Texan, nor had any special soft spot for roses. He just really, really, really liked that song.
The last two funerals I went to with music focussed on "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye" which now gets me so badly I choke up just typing the title.
Might be a black thing, or an American thing, but I'd consider it a pretty obvious choice.
We had Danny Boy played at my (very Irish) grandfather's graveside service. By a bagpiper.
If there had been any dry eyes left before he started playing, there damn well weren't afterward.
"It's So Hard To Say Goodbye" which now gets me so badly I choke up just typing the title.
We had Danny Boy played at my (very Irish) grandfather's graveside service. By a bagpiper.
Those two and "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes will get me every single time.
"With Or Without You" is where I had to stifle my horrified laughter.
At my funeral I want them to play "Milkshake" as performed by the Jingle Cats.
signed, Corrupted by the Buffistas
The most corruption I got from b.org was learning to say that I'm so vanilla that the other ice-creams callibrate themselves according to me. No worries.
Religious Jewish funerals are pretty strict in content, with no singing. I couldn't share the names of the songs in some of the non-strict funerals I attended, because they're all Hebrew songs none of you would probably be able to recognize.
Wait, that list is the songs that people would want at their own funerals, right? That makes the jackassery better, somehow.
"With Or Without You" is where I had to stifle my horrified laughter.
I was cracking up at "Every Breath You Take." Yes, I'll be stalking you even from BEYOND THE GRAVE....
Year ago at the memorial for a favorite granduncle (who had been cremated) they played "Smoke gets in your eyes".
And a comment from the liberal blogger Ezra Klein: ( [link]
If Karl Marx had written Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars would be the result.