any ideas for a funeral song?

sillyvixen

pulliptears wrote: »

Knowing in advance he was dying my Dad had the ability to chose his own songs.

He chose Eva Cassidy - Over The Rainbow for on the way in, to lull em into a false sense of security he said! Then he wanted to hit them with "Always look on the bright side of life", a song which totally summed up Dad's sense of humour!

His funeral is at 1.30 today, and we will be playing exactly what he requested, and probably singing along to Brian as well

good for him pulliptears - i hope all goes well for your difficult day.

velvetybubbles

thankyou all for your suggestions

we have made the choice of puff dady and faith.. i'll be missing you, as this reminds us of or him after he came back from holiday with our kids whom remember the time so good for them aswell
and mika... another world, new song but hubby (his brother liked the words)
funerals 2moro so getting nervous now!

also got blue and white flowers for the top of the coffin as pompey playing for the fa cup finals on saturday.
thanx again.xx

Maggie_Bob

Good choice of songs - always nice to have something modern.

Hope it all goes smoothly tomorrow.

Thinking about songs I'd like at my funeral (which I don't want to think about), I'd like this Honeybus song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFOY4qvK618 which my Dad used to sing to me as a kid (I thought he had made it up!)

Ellidee

Maggie Bob I remember that song it's great. I think it was used in a tv ad way back when - possibly for Nimble ( diet bread) - someone else will know.

sillyvixen

velvetybubbles wrote: »

thankyou all for your suggestions

we have made the choice of puff dady and faith.. i'll be missing you, as this reminds us of or him after he came back from holiday with our kids whom remember the time so good for them aswell
and mika... another world, new song but hubby (his brother liked the words)
funerals 2moro so getting nervous now!

also got blue and white flowers for the top of the coffin as pompey playing for the fa cup finals on saturday.
thanx again.xx

hope all goes well for you tomorrow- you and yours will be in many of our thoughts.

misspointy

At my Dad's funeral my stepmum, brother and i all chose a song each to have played. My stepmum had a Michael Bolton song, brother chose Celine Dion - My heart will go on...(always gives me goosebumps now), and I chose the theme tune to Only Fools and Horses...which went down a storm!
He loved that show and when ever it is on telly I always think of him.

Squidgy

This sounds odd, but at my nan's funeral we had the music from the hovis ad - you know the one with the kid on the bike delivering the bread - it's a proper piece of music, but I only know it as the music from the hovis ad.

At my nephews funeral my sister in law had I know you're shining down at me from heaven by mariah carey.

drfclee

There are many poignant songs fit for a send off to the heavens. All Angels - Songbird, is very moving.

Ive chosen my song already, a classic that shows who i am and ultimately who i was. Band of Brothers Theme, Requiem for a soldier. Poignant.

TurnaroundSue

At my dad's funeral, we had Matt Munro 'Softly as I leave you'. It is only 2 mins and 35 secs long, but listening to that song I thought my heart was going to break. It was really apt as my dad loved Matt Munro and even now, 8 years on, I cannot listen to that song without feeling the rawness of the pain I felt then.

Maybe not a good example for your BIL, but just seemed right for my dad. Hope you manage to find a song which suits your BIL and all his life entailed.

Take care

TurnaroundSue

Sorry Velvetbubbles, just read your post AFTER posting mine!! Hope everything went okay today (as well as could be expected anyway in these circumstances). Take care