Big Tom is still the king🎶🙃

Dear Readers (if you exist),

Good replies at the link below to my original letter which is here:

Sir, – I attended a cremation ceremony recently where the deceased chose to bow out to the strains of Four Country Roads by Big Tom and the Mainliners, and the song was kind of perfect for the occasion, so much so that I would consider using it when my own time comes. I wonder what musical choices readers may have for when they face, to borrow a phrase, the final curtain? – Yours, etc,

BRIAN AHERN,

Dublin 15.

What song would you choose for your funeral?

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/08/21/letters-to-the-editor-what-song-would-you-choose-for-your-funeral/

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Song (Verse 2)

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