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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Jul 16, 2019 21:57:26 GMT
That was played at my mum's funeral. They played THE LAST POST at my Dad's funeral when I was 12, in 1980. Even to this day, I can't listen to it without tearing up. At my father's funeral, they played "This is my Father's World". I listened to it in the literal sense; my father loved this world, all the animals, all the plants... "All nature sings and 'round me rings the music of the spheres." I couldn't sing along, I was too busy crying; this was a Southern Baptist funeral and I am an agnostic atheist; this was the one thing my father and I disagreed on. But we both loved Nature. It's one of the few poignant memories I have of the funeral. The rest was just another sermon. Everyone else sang along with gusto, "knowing" that Dad was in Heaven. I cried, because my Dad was gone. At my husband's funeral, the pipe organist played Mozart - my husband's favorite composer - and as a nod to my husband's best friend, who was a Scot, "Amazing Grace". For myself? I will be cremated and my ashes scattered from the same Colorado mountain top that I scattered my husband's ashes from. I would prefer my friends have a party, not a funeral, and drink and eat to excess, and re-tell all those stories that include me as the butt of the joke... there are so many! And my friends are just the right people to tell them with relish! A song?... If there is a pipe organ available... Bach's Jig Fugue... www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bach+jig+fugue&view=detail&mid=0926F24B9AA2BB314E120926F24B9AA2BB314E12&FORM=VIREThe organist really does dance a jig with the foot pedals. I've always wished I had the skill to play it.
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