I like that choice of Snowden's (Genuine Negro) Jig, there JE.Originally Posted by JEStanek
Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone would work for me.
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I like that choice of Snowden's (Genuine Negro) Jig, there JE.
Ain't Nobody Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone would work for me.
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I play mandolin, and I play bluegrass on the mandolin, but I'm also a big ELVIS fan. So here goes;
1. Peace in the valley-Elvis
2. How great thou art-Elvis
3. American trilogy-Elvis
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The Garcia and Grisman version of Friend of the Devil. That one always bring a tear to my eye and puts a lump in my throat.
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No tears at mine - I want my wake to be held at a pub with an upbeat seisiún as the focus and soundtrack, then my survivors will sprinkle my ashes from Ladies' View above Killarney National Forest. (The latter is already in my will, and thanks to this thread I'll be updating it with the former)
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Raining at Sunset
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And all the harm that e'er I've done,
Alas it was to none but me...
We few, we happy few.
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Well i am not a religious person but used to be, gave up that nonsense some time ago but i think i would like Iris DeMent ( when my mornin comes around) seems kind of made for the moment.
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I think I'd like them to play the top 10 Billboard hits of 2059.
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This is a very good choice.
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If you are not a spiritual person that is your buisness but you should call it nonsense. whether you believe or not ever knee shall bow and ever tounge confess
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I don't really care what happens at my funeral, except for this: It is going to be in my will that my casket be delivered to the service and/or graveside five minutes late. I am a big procrastinator, and I have a song about this called "Five Minutes Late." I've been late my whole life; I don't care how whoever is in charge manages this, but I intend to be late to my own funeral. I am dead serious about that.
Well, that's really all. But for the purpose of this thread, I will make a small request. I don't have a certain song in mind, as long as it is sung by Sarah McLachlan, my all-time favorite pop singer. If she could get her old backup singer Camille Henderson - they were amazing together - to join her on some harmonies, that would be great, and also Sara Hickman, who has probably the warmest voice I have ever heard, and Heather Nova, whose soaring voice is as close to what I imagine a rock angel would sound like, and if Alicia Keys could join them that would be even better. (In fact, for backup singers let's bring in Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, and Christina Aguilera too, as long as they check their egos at the door. And please girls, no fighting over me - I'll already be dead.) I'll leave it up to Sarah and her exquisite taste to decide what to sing - she'll want to sing "Angel," naturally, but I would humbly suggest "Hold On," and her sexiest song, "Steaming" - and if Heather wouldn't mind contributing some of her more ethereal songs, like "Maybe An Angel" and "Paper Cup," that would be great, and "Island" and "Blue Black," might as well pull out all the stops. Sara could do "Take Me With You When You Go," thematically appropriate, and could lighten the mood considerably with "Radiation Man." Also, I would love it - I mean, I would have loved it - if Lucinda Williams could be there, to sing "I Envy The Wind" and "Sweet Old World." Oh, I almost forgot - let's get Patti Rothberg in as well, to do "Remembering Tonight." She knows I love that song. Might as well have a send-off that the living can enjoy, and I would like my last act in this world to be devoted to giving these performers, whose music I love, a little more recognition, and a thanks for their contribution to my musical enrichment and enlightenment. Lastly, if they wouldn't mind, I would like David Grisman and Sam Bush to play some nice background music for the mourners as they file in and mill about before the ceremony, and then afterward, to jam out on "Minor Swing" as people leave, second line style, so people would have some exuberant mandolin music ringing in their ears.
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it should have read you should not call it nonsense excuss my typing
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I'd like music that has not yet been written and won't be for decades to come.
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I feel a lockdown coming on.
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