Heaven September 24, 2010
Posted by Mark Folse in Toulouse Street.trackback
There is a short list of songs I hope someone plays over me when the bottle of Jameson stands atop the foot of the pine box. I need to write it down. This is one.
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Thanks, I like that. Makes me want to know what other songs are on your short list.
Hmmm, well lemme see:
Am Feochán by Altan.
Box of Rain (preferably sung by R.S. and a chorus of his organizing; yes you have that geis on you)
Heaven as mentioned.
Gather By the River (not *at* the river) by Davell Crawford.
Pharoah Sanders Love is Everyone from Love In Us All. The whole damn thing of twenty some minutes. It will be the closest thing to a religious service (or if my Catholic family manages a Mass a requirement of my lending them my body for the event will be that the consecration of the host and communion take place to this, and no I don’t care what the damn rules are about secular music).
Closer (OK, yes I know it’s called a recessional but I’m not a churched or churchly person): again by Altan: Tommy Bhetty’s Waltz, the Celtic equivalent of Oh, Didn’t He Ramble. If someone can manage an actual guitar, fiddle and whistle it would be wonderful.
Feel free to intermix anything appropriate from the traditional brass band repertoire, but these will all be found burned on a CD somewhere with the words FUNERAL in black highlighter somewhere in my office.