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05-27-2016, 01:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
There is no need for anyone else to record that song. No one will ever do it as well as KD Lang
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AHEM. cough cough Jeff Buckley cough cough
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05-27-2016, 01:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Funeral for a Friend Elton John
Not somber nor topical if you read the lyrics, but it would make me smile from the grave: Goodbye Goodbye by Oingo Boingo.
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You can't enlighten the unconscious.
But you can hit'em upside the head a few times to make sure they are really out...
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05-27-2016, 02:08 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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If you like sad (sounding) songs, here is my favorite (:
It was used in the Ken Burns series THE CIVIL WAR.
There are numerous versions available.
Some folks seem to like Sarah McLachlan's Arms of an Angel
Since the song is actually about heroin addiction, it never appealed to me for a funeral, but I have heard it used and it is very beautiful.
Hope you don't need any of these songs for a very long time!!
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Ko'olau's Law -
Anything which can be used can be misused. Anything which can be misused will be.
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05-27-2016, 02:45 PM
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#44
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Another Mark Knopfler (THE man for lyrics) Heart full of Holes
"Well, if we go to heaven
And some say we don't
But if there's a reckoning day
Please God, I'll see you
And maybe I won't
I've a bag packed to go either way
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It's a wonder to me -
I still don't understand
Why I ever survived to be old
With a heart full of holes
A heart full of holes
A heart full of holes"
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"Exit, pursued by a bear."
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare
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05-27-2016, 02:49 PM
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Funerals are for the living. I have an agnostic viewpoint about death: not atheist, but just saying that I don't know. Still, considering a myriad of possibilities, I seriously doubt that I am going to even be able to hear any music that is played. Why should I pick the songs, when possibly the songs I pick might not even be liked by anybody in attendance?
So, I am thinking that anyone nice enough to attend a funeral for me, should be allowed pick a song for the playlist if they want to.
If they need one song from me, to get started and set the tone, then here:
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05-27-2016, 03:02 PM
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#46
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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I haven't given it much thought. My wife says she wants this one, at least among the secular songs in the memorial service:
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05-27-2016, 07:26 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Quote:
Originally Posted by razztazz
Blunt: "El Paso"
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"Streets of Laredo"
final two verses:
When thus he had spoken, the hot sun was setting.
The streets of Laredo grew cold as the clay.
We took the young cowboy down to the green valley,
And there stands his marker, we made, to this day.
We beat the drum slowly and played the Fife lowly,
Played the dead march as we carried him along.
Down in the green valley, laid the sod o'er him.
He was a young cowboy and he said he'd done wrong.
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No doubt a continuous prosperity, though spendthrift, is preferable to an economy thriftily moral, though lean. Nevertheless, that prosperity would seem more soundly shored if, by a saving grace, more of us had the grace to save.
Life Magazine editorial, 1956
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05-27-2016, 07:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Willie Nelson has been suggested. Alison Krauss has been suggested.
Here's Allison singing a Willie song:
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No doubt a continuous prosperity, though spendthrift, is preferable to an economy thriftily moral, though lean. Nevertheless, that prosperity would seem more soundly shored if, by a saving grace, more of us had the grace to save.
Life Magazine editorial, 1956
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05-27-2016, 07:47 PM
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Dryer sheet wannabe
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Keep Me in Your Heart....Warren Zevon. I plan on having it played at my funeral.
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05-27-2016, 07:51 PM
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Just thought of another one -
Requiem by Eliza Gilkyson. The best recording is by Conspirare but it's not available on YouTube. This one is the best I found:
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05-27-2016, 07:55 PM
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I once sang this duet at a funeral
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05-27-2016, 07:59 PM
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Didn't remember that Webber did a Requiem. Beautiful piece, Gumby.
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05-27-2016, 08:23 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Wisdom starts with wonder
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05-27-2016, 09:31 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nodak
Ripple by the Grateful Dead
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Very good. From your "Ripple" to "Black Peter":
The Annotated "Black Peter"
Quote:
All of my friends come to see me last night
I was laying in my bed and dying
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Just want to have
a little peace to die
and a friend or two
I love at hand
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See here how everything
lead up to this day
and it's just like
any other day
that's ever been
Sun goin up
and then the
sun it goin down
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People may know but
the people don't care
that a man could be
as poor as me...
"Take a look at poor Peter
he's lyin in pain
now let's go run
and see" ....
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Actually, the line "See here how everything lead up to this day" was one I was singing on the days leading up to my retirement. It did seem that so many events, a lot of work and planning, and a goodly measure of luck "led up to this day".
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05-28-2016, 09:26 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Keim
AHEM. cough cough Jeff Buckley cough cough
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+1
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05-28-2016, 12:18 PM
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#56
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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The Gambler
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