What about the fugue from Mozart's K. 173 quartet as a more dignified alternative? (Half purple)

"Stairway to Heaven?" Is that thing still around?

Apparently, CharlesW, and Zeppelin is still touring. I reckon it's more like "Stair Lift to Heaven" these days.

I also recently agreed to play "Amazing Grace" at a funeral after politely refusing to play nearly every other piece the family requested, including "Holes in the Floor of Heaven"...

Chris Garton-Zavesky,

Unfortunately, yes. And they had many suggestions!

Ooo makes me wonder

I find it, um, interesting how they characterize their #2 pick:

"The Wizard of Oz, this song is a message of hope and happiness"

Um, that would be a no. A classic case of paying more attention to melody rather than lyric.*

It's a melancholic song of alienation with just enough hope to avoid despair. Garland's rendering of it at her famous Carnegie Hall concert is truer to the drive of the lyric.**

* An example on the flip side of things would be Bergman's use of the Dies Irae in The Seventh Seal: while the text has its grim aspects, its use here is more driven by the melody, and the setting attenuates the actual hopeful message of the lyric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnD3ZgfEg8s

** At the 3:00-3:40 mark (of course, the orchestral ending complicates matters, but Garland had a genius understanding of her audiences, and probably wanted the pleading to not be the final note, as it were):
:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XBU5NBUXQ