Forever Yours
I’m swept away in this moment I feel your heartbeat next to mine My hands are tremblings It’s overwhelming A whisper breaks through the silence A vow to test the breathe of time Until forever I’ll be forever Yours Not just tonight I’m by your side For all your life Till death comes between us […]
Blackberry Stone
Posted by Sweetpea I am fascinated by those lesser explored emotions at funerals. When I visit a family, I carry poetry and music with me for those who are struggling to find expression. Of course, it’s comparatively easy to find things which talk about love in its more conventional forms – we are almost […]
Ain’t no grave can hold my body down
Here’s another song. Johnny Cash used to sing it. This is the Tom Jones version. I seem to be on a bit of a roll at the moment. It won’t last. There’ll be time to catch up, I’m afraid. There ain’t no grave gonna hold my body down Ain’t no grave gonna hold my body […]
Music: consolation for life
If you didn’t catch the BBC Radio 4 programme Soul Music last week, you can still hear it on Listen Again. It’s worth it. Soul Music is a long-running series which just seems to get better and better. The format is simple: snippets of interviews with all sorts of people interwoven with the chosen piece […]
Something for the weekend
A little while ago I had a debate with Jonathan Taylor within this blog about funeral music. I have no interest in music, I said, can think of nothing that would describe me or sum me up, want nothing. I prefer spoken words. Jonathan then had one of those moments of heady inspiration, the greatest […]
When an Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease
Here’s a seasonal number (with apologies to US and Scotch readers, to whom cricket probably makes no sort of sense at all). This is the song that DJ John Peel agreed with his producer, John Walters, would be played on the radio when he died. It didn’t happen. Walters died three years before (Peel played […]
The Lazarus touch
Thank you, all those of you who expressed solicitude during my little illness. I am very touched. I can see now why it is that women outlive men. It is because they sensibly enlist medical science to deal with symptoms as they occur, they don’t impatiently wait for them to go away. And when they do see the […]
Fooneytunes
There are limitations to blogging. If a post looks overlong people won’t read it. So you need to stick to a single line of argument; you haven’t space to expand or balance. Once you’ve written it you must strip it down, starting with the best bits. As you contemplate clicking Publish, vanity warns you that […]
Country Goth funeral songs
Over at My Last Song Paul Hensby is looking for Goth and Country songs fit for a funeral. I’m in no position to help him out. I like my wireless to utter spoken, not sung, words. I had to confess to Paul that I can’t actually think of a single song I want played at my […]
Facing the music
Another gangster funeral today. No apologies for this. Gangster funerals are such ticklish affairs: it’s so difficult to gild a gangster when he’s dead. Eamonn Dunne, special subject drugs, responsible for the murders of at least a dozen people including some of his own associates, was blown away while drinking in a Dublin pub. His […]
