5.02.2011

Day 24: A Song that you Want Played at Your Funeral

This may be a little morbid, internet, but I honestly didn’t have to think about this at all. I have known forever what song I want played at my funeral. I have been fairly certain that I might not have a wedding, but a funeral? No avoiding that. If you know me, chances are I have already told you what my funeral song needs to be, but here it is, in writing. Pay attention, ya’ll, because Thing Two won’t even let me utter the word “funeral” in his presence. So…it could be up to you to make this happen.  So here it is:


“Brokedown Palace”  - Grateful Dead

Fare you well my honey
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Have flown except you alone

Goin to leave this Broke-down Palace
On my hands and my knees I will roll roll roll
Make myself a bed by the waterside
In my time - in my time - I will roll roll roll

In a bed, in a bed
by the waterside I will lay my head
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

River gonna take me
Sing me sweet and sleepy
Sing me sweet and sleepy
all the way back back home
It's a far gone lullaby
sung many years ago
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come
since I first left home

Goin home, goin home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

Goin to plant a weeping willow
On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go - the river roll roll roll

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul




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