Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral

Tomorrow's post will be more cheerful, honest.

Sir Bruin and I attended 2 funerals in the run up to Christmas as my Grandma and Sir Bruin’s mother died within 5 days of each other.

My Grandma’s funeral was rather nice and entirely free of any religion (something I approved of). Three pieces of music were played in total. We walked into the crematorium to the theme music from TV’s "All Creatures Great and Small" and left to the sound of another TV theme, "Van der Valk" (a tune which I believe is actually called ‘Eye Level’) – she liked her TV themes, my old Grandma (and when I say old, I mean old. She was 92!) The service itself involved a reading, and a brief resume of Grandma’s life and also a period of quiet reflection, during which we listened to a piece of music that I had heard many times but previously did not know the name of - "Theme from a summer place". It was lovely.

The funeral of Sir B’s mother was a religious service conducted by her local methodist minister. However, the version of the 23^rd psalm that was played was the one used as the theme to TV’s "The Vicar of Dibley".

I have blogged previously (here) on the topic of music chosen for funerals.

My mother informs me that she would like "Gimme All Your Lovin’" by ZZ Top while my Dad would like something with a railway theme; possibly "The Runaway Train." (You can see now why I am a bit odd, can’t you?)

So, with rather too much death around, funeral music has been discussed at some length in the Bear Cave in recent weeks, but no real conclusions have been made. Let’s face it – I’m not actually going to be there (my empty body may be attending but whatever made me me will be gone) so why would I care about this?

It’s top 5 time!

Top 5 possible funeral tunes for a small bear (hopefully not required for another 40 years)

“Somewhere Only We Know” by Keane

“The Great Gig in The Sky” by Pink Floyd

“Don’t Dream It’s Over” by Crowded House

“The Show Must Go On” by Queen

“Silence is Golden” by The Tremeloes (this last suggestion based solely on the fact that this song was at number 1 the week I was born)

I’m supposed to actually post a link here. Eeany, meany, miney… how about “The Great Gig In The Sky” by Pink Floyd? (make yourself a cup of tea; this goes on for ages).

Sound only.