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Whats the best song for a retirement / 65th Birthday Party?

  • 27-06-2009 08:24AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭


    Sorry if in wrong section.
    I'm looking for a good song i can play for my Dads party next Saturday
    Any suggestions?


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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Frank Sinatra

    And now, the end is near;
    And so I face the final curtain.
    My friend, Ill say it clear,
    Ill state my case, of which Im certain.

    Ive lived a life thats full.
    Ive traveled each and evry highway;
    And more, much more than this,
    I did it my way.

    Regrets, Ive had a few;
    But then again, too few to mention.
    I did what I had to do
    And saw it through without exemption.

    I planned each charted course;
    Each careful step along the byway,
    But more, much more than this,
    I did it my way.

    Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
    When I bit off more than I could chew.
    But through it all, when there was doubt,
    I ate it up and spit it out.
    I faced it all and I stood tall;
    And did it my way.

    Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
    Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
    And now, as tears subside,
    I find it all so amusing.

    To think I did all that;
    And may I say - not in a shy way,
    No, oh no not me,
    I did it my way.

    For what is a man, what has he got?
    If not himself, then he has naught.
    To say the things he truly feels;
    And not the words of one who kneels.
    The record shows I took the blows -
    And did it my way!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Don't fear the reaper


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,450 ✭✭✭Dartz


    Good Riddance - Green Day

    Oh wait, that's for Funerals.

    Try the "One Foot in the Grave" theme tune


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Knocking on Heavens Door Lyrics

    Mama take this badge from me
    I can't use it any more
    It's getting dark too dark to see
    Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

    Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door
    Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
    Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
    Kn-knockin' on heaven's door

    Mama put my guns in the ground
    I can't shoot them any more
    That cold black cloud is comin' down
    Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door

    Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door
    Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
    Kn-knockin' on heaven's door
    Kn-knockin' on heaven's door

    "You just better start sniffin' your own
    rank subjugation jack `cause it's just you
    against your tattered libido, the bank and
    the mortician, forever man and it wouldn't
    be luck if you could get out of life alive"*

    Kn-kn-knockin' on heaven's door


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    Due to the timing, Beat It.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Irish Halo


    One he likes?


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Moved from AH.
    I have a feeling the OP is looking for serious answers and seems like a song request should belong in the music forum rather than gifts / festivities / party ideas.


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