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What A Wonderful World, by Louis Armstrong.
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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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The Doobie Brothers – I Cheat The Hangman.
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The whole of The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill.
Patricia Hodge
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One of my favourite songs is Being Alive, from Company by Stephen Sondheim, but it would hardly be appropriate.
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Something tongue-in-cheek: Rescue Me.
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Not going to uni and getting my English degree.
When my daughter was born.
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