<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568937" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Play Jolly Music at My Funeral</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve taken in recent years to thinking about my funeral<br>and have decided to make one paramount request: <br>play jolly music at that ritual.<br>What good does it do to heap on dirges<br>or other mournful melodies? <br>I won’t be there to be gratified by the grieving<br>and if I could tune in <br>I’d be happier to see those present have some relief.<br>Dixieland would be nice.<br>Joplin would be fine.<br>Something by Fats Waller would certainly do.<br>Those early jazzmen knew what they were up to<br>when they set about making funeral marches swing.<br>So swing me away, please, with a rousing tune.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Richard+Greene">Richard Greene</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568937" data-title="Play Jolly Music at My Funeral de Richard Greene" data-description="I’ve taken in recent years to thinking about my funeral and have decided to make one paramount request: play jolly music at that ritual. What good does it do to heap on dirges or other mournful melodies? I won’t be there to be gratified by t..."></div> </div> </div>

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