Name the tune you want to hear as you leave this life

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 9 Apr 2007 8:49 am

Jim Cohen wrote:I'll take the 2nd movement of Rodrigo's 'Concerto de Aranjuez'.

2 comments:

1- This piece NEEDS to be played on a steel. I may learn it myself.

2- Rodrigo wrote 5 guitar concertos as well as a lot of other works, but because this one piece is so hauntingly beautiful and so popular, (it is probably the single most recorded guitar concerto in the entire classical guitar world,)it has overshadowed everything else he wrote. But much of his other material is just as wonderful. Personally I like his often overlooked Fantasia Para Un Gentlehombre more than this one.

My next CD will contain one of his most obscure compositions, the 3rd movement of his "Conceirto Andeluz For Four Guitars." (Note: I played the guitar parts on guitars, as they were written, and used the steel to cover the brass and woodwind parts.)

As for what piece of music I want to hear on my deathbed, it has to be my theme song: "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha" by Napoleon the 14th.

richard burton · Post by **richard burton** » 9 Apr 2007 11:10 am

I'm very surprised that no one has mentioned that timeless classic, 'Paddy McGinty's Goat'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wglSHQZff1I

Ron Whitfield · Post by **Ron Whitfield** » 9 Apr 2007 11:46 am

Now, I can die!

Post by **Dave Mudgett** » 9 Apr 2007 4:00 pm

I guess a sort of "going out medley" of Buddy Emmons playing Pachelbel's "Canon in D major", Wes Montgomery playing Round Midnight, Roy Buchanan playing "Sweet Dreams" followed by "The Messiah Will Come Again", then Blind Willie Johnson with "Dark Was the Night".

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 9 Apr 2007 5:07 pm

How about A Way to Survive??

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 9 Apr 2007 5:59 pm

Always liked this one by Kristopherson:

Kiss the Workd Goodbye.

I never had no regrets, boys;
Not for nothing Ive done.
I owed the devil some debts, boys,
Paid them all up but one.
And I dont even regret the living
That Ill be leaving behind.
Ive gotten weary of searching
For something I couldnt find.

Im going down to the shade
By the river one more time,
And feel the breeze on my face before I die.
Im gonna leave whatevers left of my luck to the losers,
Then bend me down and kiss the world goodbye.

Come to lucky-in-lovin
I never had no complaints.
They never said I was evil,
But then, I wasnt no saint.
Im just a river that rolled forever
And never got to the sea.
I aint blaming nobody;
I had it coming to me.

Im going down to the shade
By the river one more time,
And feel the breeze on my face before I die.
Im gonna leave whatevers left
Of my luck to the losers,
Then bend me down, and kiss the world goodbye.

:}

Another by Sting is a good one:

Fragile.

If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one;

Drying in the colour of the evening sun.

Tomorrows rain will wash the stains away;

But something in our minds will always stay.

Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetimes argument;

That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could.

For all those born beneath an angry star;
Lest we forget how fragile we are.

On and on the rain will fall,
Like tears from a star, like tears from a star.

On and on the rain will say;
How fragile we are. How fragile we are.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 9 Apr 2007 8:12 pm

The complete.
Bartok Concerto For Orchestra.

2 reasons,
1) it's quite long,
2) I will always wonder till me dieing day
what he did, how he did it.

Ben Elder · Post by **Ben Elder** » 9 Apr 2007 10:45 pm

"Shores of Jordan"-Iris Dement--no, wait...

"Jazz-Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold"-Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. No, no, there's something else...

"Indifference of Heaven"-Warren Zevon

(No, back to the Bonzos--WZ was such mizzable bastid--especially to those closest to him...)

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 10 Apr 2007 2:58 am

All kidding aside, Debussy's "Reverie."

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 10 Apr 2007 5:18 am

"It Don't Hurt Anymore"
(that was also our first anniversary song)

and

The John Prine song,
"Please Don't Bury Me".

"Please Don't Bury Me".

Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul
Went thru the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said:

Chorus:
Please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have "em" cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size
Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get "em" out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the junkman
And give my love to Rose

Repeat Chorus

Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye

Repeat Chorus

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 10 Apr 2007 6:13 am

Brilliantly written!

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 10 Apr 2007 6:24 am

"I want Another Chance"

an old blues tune by Fred Martin..I think from the Philly area...

Charlie McDonald · Post by **Charlie McDonald** » 10 Apr 2007 6:37 am

... or Samuel Barber's 'Adagio' for strings.

David Mason · Post by **David Mason** » 10 Apr 2007 7:52 am

For obvious reasons, Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" has a certain appeal.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 10 Apr 2007 10:36 am

I used to do please don't bury me nightly
with a duo gig I had, always went down well.

John Prine of of Americas great classic songwriters.

But I still wanna hear the Bartok

Paul Norman (RIP) · Post by **Paul Norman (RIP)** » 10 Apr 2007 1:00 pm

Farewell party was written for this occasion,
but Joe Diffie says: Prop me up beside the
jukebox when I die.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 10 Apr 2007 1:37 pm

"This world is not my home,
I'm just a passing through
My treasures are laid up
somewhere beyond the blue;
The angels beckon me
from heaven's open door,
And I don't feel at home
in this world anymore."

Albert E. Brumley

Dayna Wills · Post by **Dayna Wills** » 12 Apr 2007 12:53 am

Since I have spent time in Texas, I love Texas, maybe it should be Tanya Tucker's "Texas, When I Die."

Gerald Menke · Post by **Gerald Menke** » 12 Apr 2007 8:24 am

Probably Bill Frisell's "The Pioneers" with Greg Leisz on steel. One of the prettiest steel solos out there, I think. It's on his 1999 album called "Good Dog Happy Man". Never, ever get tired of that album, or that song.

Bent Romnes · Post by **Bent Romnes** » 12 Apr 2007 11:22 am

This Is It, By Jim Reeves

Gary C. Dygert · Post by **Gary C. Dygert** » 13 Apr 2007 11:42 am

The Down Home Waltz, by Buck White.

Craig Stock · Post by **Craig Stock** » 13 Apr 2007 3:55 pm

It's a hard thing to pick, but what comes to mind is a version of Danny Boy by Don Walser, he did it for a friend who lost his son, and every time I listen to it, it brings me to tears at the end.

Don had a great way of bringing heartfelt emotion into his songs and this was one of his best.

Truth be told, I had always heard of the song, but never had heard the song, so for me his is the benchmark.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 14 Apr 2007 6:15 am

Craig,
That is one of my favorites also.
Dottie Rambo wrote new lyrics to this old classic and renamed it, "He Looked Beyond My Fault":

"Amazing grace shall always be my song of praise,
For it was grace that bought my liberty;
I do not know just why He came to love me so,
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need.
I shall forever lift mine eyes to Calvary.
To view the cross where Jesus died for me;
How marvelous the grace that caught my falling soul!
He looked beyond my fault and saw my need."

Gary Boyett · Post by **Gary Boyett** » 15 Apr 2007 3:48 am

Just one:

Believe

Geoff Barnes · Post by **Geoff Barnes** » 16 Apr 2007 4:06 pm

I always liked Townes Van Zandt's "Pancho and Lefty"... Can I have that one please?

"Living on the road my friend
Was gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron
Your breath's as hard as kerosene
You weren't your mama's only boy
But her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye
And sank into your dreams

Pancho was a bandit boys
His horse was fast as polished steel
Wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
Pancho met his match you know
On the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words
That's the way it goes

All the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him hang around
Out of kindness I suppose

Lefty he can't sing the blues
All night long like he used to
The dust that Pancho bit down south
Ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go
There ain't nobody knows

All the federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
Out of kindness I suppose

The poets tell how Pancho fell
Lefty's livin' in a cheap hotel
The desert's quiet and Cleveland's cold
So the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true,
But save a few for Lefty too
He just did what he had to do
Now he's growing old

A few gray federales say
They could have had him any day
They only let him go so wrong
Out of kindness I suppose"

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