"Ding-dong the witch is dead!"

"Highland Cathedral" or "Flowers of the Forrest".

I've played "Amazing Grace" at enough funerals I don't even care for it anymore, and it used to be one of my favorites. One of the first tunes I learned on the pipes in fact. Oddly, that tune is the single most requested song when I'm hired for funerals or weddings. Probably something cosmic there if one thought about it too long.


Cpt. Redleg

"Freebird" - Lynard Skynard

"For Whom the Bell Tolls"- Metallica

"Simple Man"- Skynard

Wooohooooo, there is another Third Day fan here besides me!



BTW, I did this same thread a couple weeks ago.

Fade to black-Metallica

[b]Hell ain't a bad place to be : AC/DC[/b]

I'll go with the Ride of the Valkyries and Siegfrieds death and funeral and maybe a little Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla.
I only hope i would be deserving of it.

In my will...

Ave Maria to get the crying outta them at the beginning

Wild Rover (Irish Drinkin' Song) to get them laughing at the end.

"...and I'll play the Wild Rover - no never, no more!"

Bob Seger   - Turn The Page

Stairway to Heaven

ya beat me to it.....not really a Slayer fan just back it up with a Black Sabbath:Hole in the Sky from the Sabotage album...play it really fuckin loud cause thats the way I liked it;)

Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd.

I second that!

Mark O'Conners verson of Ashokan Farewell.  If you have never heard it, it's that haunting fiddle tune that plays through out Ken Burns Civil War.

"The Wanderer" by U2 w/ Johnny Cash:

[i]
I went out there
in search of experience
to taste and to touch
and to feel as much
as a man can
before he repents
...
I went out walking
with a bible and a gun
the word of God lay heavy on my heart
I was sure I was the one
...
[/i]

"You can't always get what you want"
Rolling Stones

Hey, was that song used in the movie The Big Chill? If so then I must find another song.

Wake:  Start with the Blues Brothers version of Sweet Home Chicago, and keep going through my Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, and John Lee Hooker collections.
Graveside: After the words are said, Taps on bugle, hopefully WITHOUT the electronic doo-hickey.
As they lower me down, Amazing Grace on pipes.
When I'm down and they're covering me up, pass around a stone flagon of Usquebach, and all the Marines get a shot to hold up when they get to the 3rd verse of the Marines Hymn and down at the finish.  Vocals only.

"A Change of Seasons"

DT

Sorry, I think its more 'when' than 'if'.

If anyone wants to sit around and have a damn ceremony over my dead carcass, I hope somebody calls the ATF in for a no knock cavity search for the "Black Panther party meeting". Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Throw my ass in a shredder when you are [b]sure[/b] I am done breathing!

I dont go to funerals and I dont want to be at mine. My dead ass is not there, and my body is tissue in transition. I will never for the life of me figure out what the human need for this long drawn out ritual worship of a non-living person is all about, kinda like the roadside shrines.

My Moms oldest sister died and they had the funeral. I was like a son to her, right age to fit in line with the 5 of them. A couple of her sons decided we were going to have a little chat about why I was so disrespectful 'to her' and not inside the church with them during the services. I told them, ' I came by and saw her 2 days before she died(post surgery clot) and we sat and laughed and chatted and talked for an hour & half.

[b]Thats[/b] exactly how I want to remember her, and it is. I dont need to see her lifeless body in some hollow tribute to anything. Do I miss her? Sure. Would seeing her in a casket help that? No. It would only change the mental picture I have of her. I can still see her smile, big and bright, I can still hear her laughter as we chatted about life, something and nothing. Every person who was ever dear to me has this same positive memory in my mind, not a morbid, flower covered shrine, lifeless body memory.

Matthew 8:22 - But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

Im not dead, I will pay a gravedigger to deal with bodies.

The Monster Mash.

A Couple by Billy Joe Shaver.

Blood Is Thicker than Water from "The Earth Rolls On"

If I Give My Soul & Live Forever from "Tramp On Your Street"

Son of Calvary & You Can't Beat Jesus Christ from "Victory"

Stairway to Heaven.

Simple Man by Skynyrd

Danny