My Daily Musing

   I have been doing several funerals lately.
   Yesterday I went to the wake service for one of my parishioners who was always joking around with other people, who always went for the laugh.
   In his honor, I share with you some of the "funeral Mass selections" that a number of us came up with several years ago for one of our parishioners who was always joking with other people and who wanted to pre-plan her funeral. We told her to select four from the following list:
  1. Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead
  2. The ol’ Gray Mare
  3. Carry Me Back to ol’ Virginny
  4. Follow the Yellow Brick Road
  5. Nobody knows the troubles I’ve seen
  6. Good Night, Irene
  7. Bippity, Boppity, Boo
  8. Auld Lang Syne
  9. Give My Regards to Broadway
10. The Bone Song
11. The Last Rose of Summer
12. Tie a Yellow Ribbon
13. Monster Mash
14. The Scarecrow Song (If I only had a heart)
15. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
   In addition, she was told that, at the beginning of the funeral, the body would be greeted at church with “Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, goodbye” and at the end of the Mass, for the recessional, we would sing “Toot, toot, toosie goodbye.”
   She told us that, if those were the selections open to her, she would decide to stay alive. [As of this writing, 10 years later, she is still alive!]
   Ah yes, there is always time to laugh!
   Have a great day!