[Bon of Babble]

There is dispute over whether “Near My God to Thee” or “Autumn” was the final song played on the Titanic.

Walter Lord writes in A Night to Remember:

The strains of “Autumn” were buried in a jumble of falling musicians and instruments. The lights went out, flashed on again, went out for good. A single kerosene lantern flickered high in the after mast.

There has never been a mixture like it — 29 boilers...the jeweled copy of the Rubiayat...800 cases of shelled walnuts...15,000 bottles of ale and stout...huge anchor chains (each link weighed 175 pounds)...30 cases of golf clubs and tennis rackets for Spaulding...Eleanor Widener’s trousseau...tons of coal...Major Peuchen’s tin box...30,000 fresh eggs...dozens of potted palms...5 grand pianos...a little mantel clock in B-38...the massive silver duck press.

[Harley]

.....dozens of potted palms...5 grand pianos...a little mantel clock in B-38...the massive silver duck press.

and a partridge in a pear tree.

[Vigilanteman]

I think there is room for dispute as to whether “Near My God to Thee” or “Autumn” was the final song played on the Titanic. People were boarding lifeboats under high stress circumstances. Most of them had no way of knowing whether they were even boarding the last lifeboat, much less hearing the last song which the band played.

What isn't in dispute is that the band performed heroically and these were among the last songs played.