"I'll Fly Away" is a good one.
I'd like Basement Jaxx's "Do Your Thing."
Nice!
Y'all mofos better second-line for me. I want a jazz funeral, dammit. And now I'm listening to the Treme Brass Band play "Just a Closer Walk with Thee." For my sister and maybe for myself, I like Ginny Owens' "If You Want Me To" [link] (which, yes, I orginally heard on Dawson's Creek). I love "Be Thou My Vision" but more for the music than then sentiment. Hmm.
Ooo. "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" from The Muppet Movie. "Ain't That Good News" by Katryna and Nerissa Nields, that would work for a second line. "The Water is Wide."
And now I can't stop.
The Nields "I'll Meet You In The Sky"
Nields' funeral music xpost!
My mother chose "The Rose" for her funeral. Ryan now likes that song, and he calls it "Nai Nai Song", Nai Nai being Chinese for Grandma.
Bette Midler "The Rose"??
"In the Gloaming" by Jonatha Brooke [link]
"Prayer of St. Francis" by Sarah Maclachlan.
I've been to two second line funerals so far, one that had a drumming and singing session afterwards. I don't believe I could sustain that, but maybe I should make a list like Jesse, and see what I can work out. My friend in San Francisco doing music therapy (giving, not receiving, to be clear) might be able to hook me up. Let me ask him.
Man, that song makes me cry regardless.
Oh, smonster, I love "In The Gloaming," although I like the harmonies between her and Jennifer Kimball as The Story even better. And, oh, their version of e.e. cummings's "love is more thicker than forget."
Oh, and in SERIOUSLY BROOKLYN WHAT THE FUCK news, that rash I have may actually be German measles.
Fucking overprivileged ignorant anti-fucking-vaxxers.
(It could also just be a weird viral reaction to the antibiotics I was on last week, but apparently it looks just like "textbook German measles" Which she "really didn't expect to see!" So yay me, I'm so surprising, I get diseases we should have wiped out before I was born. Fortunately I was vaccinated as a baby, so I probably won't get anything worse than a rash because I do have some latent immunity. And thank fuck my kids are fully vaccinated with fancy modern vaccines that work better than the ones they were using in the 70s.)
