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Popular funeral songs


"Amazing Grace" (Elvis Presley)
"In the Arms of an Angel” (Sarah McLachalan)
"Angels Among Us" (Alabama)
"As Long As I Can See the Light" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
"Ave Maria”, (Perry Como)
"Baby Mine” (Bette Midler)
"Because You Loved Me" (Celine Dion)
"Beyond the Sea" (Bobby Darin)
"Blessed" (Elton John)
"Borrowed Angels (Kristin Chenoweth)
"Bright Eyes” (Art Garfunkel)
"Butterfly" (Mariah Carey)
"Bye, Bye (Mariah Carey)
"Candle in the Wind (Elton John)
"Change The World" (Eric Clapton)
"Circle Of Life" (Elton John, from The Lion King)
"Close to You" (The Carpenters)
"Con Te Partiro/”Time to Say Goodbye " (Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman)
"Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me” (Elton John)
"Evergreen" (Barbra Streisand)
"Everything I Own" (Bread)
"Fire and Rain" (James Taylor)
"Fields of Gold" (Eva Cassidy)
"Fly” (Celine Dion)
"Have I Told You Lately" (Rod Stewart or Van Morrison)
"Hallelujah" (Jeff Buckley)
"Hero" (Mariah Carey)
"Home" Daughtry
"How Far is Heaven" (Los Lonely Boys)
"I Am Your Child" (Barry Manilow)
"I Can See Clearly Now" (Johnny Nash)
"I'll Be Missing You" (P. Diddy, Faith Evans)
"I Will Always Love You" (Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston)
"I Will Remember You" (Sarah McLachalan)
"If" (Bread)
"If I Could Be Where You Are" (Enya)
"I'll Remember April" (Frank Sinatra)
"Imagine" (John Lennon)
"In My Life" (The Beatles)
"Keep me in Your Heart for Awhile" (Warren Zevon, he wrote it before he died of cancer)
"Knocking of Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan)
"Lean on Me" (Bill Withers)
"Let There Be Peace on Earth" (Jill Jackson and Sy Miller)
"Life Is A Highway (Tom Cochrane)
"Longer" (Dan Fogelberg)
"Memories” (Elvis Presley)
"Memory" (Barbra Streisand)
"My Immortal" (Evanescence)
"My Way" (Frank Sinatra)
"One Sweet Day" (Mariah Carey (featuring Boyz II Men)
"Only the Good Die Young (Billy Joel)
"Over The Rainbow" (Judy Garland, from Wizard Of Oz)
"Run to Paradise" (Choirboys)
"Seasons in the Sun" (Terry Jacks)
"She's Got A Way" (Billy Joel)
"Shine Your Light (Robbie Robertson) Tribute to Firemen
"Simply the Best" (Tina Turner)
"So Far Away" (Carole King)
"Softly as I Leave You" (Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams)
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World (Isreal Kamamawiwo'ole)
"Stairway to Heaven" Led Zeppelin
"Stand by Me" (Ben E. King)
"Tears in Heaven” (Eric Clapton)
"Tenderly Calling" (John Denver)
"The Rose" (Bette Midler)
"The Way We Were" (Barbra Streisand)
"To Where You Are" (Josh Groban)
"Unforgettable" (Nat King Cole/Natalie Cole)
"Up Where We Belong" (Joe Cocker, Jennifer Warnes)
"What A Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong)
"Wind Beneath My Wings" (Bette Midler)
"Wish You Were Here" (Pink Floyd)
"Wishing You Were Here" (Chicago)
"You Are So Beautiful To Me" (Joe Cocker)
"You Are The Sunshine of My Life" (Stevie Wonder)
"You'll be in my Heart (Phil Collins)
"You're the First, the Last, My Everything" (Barry White)
"You're the Inspiration" (Chicago)
"You've Got a Friend" (James Taylor)

Country Music Songs
A Picture of Me Without You (Lorrie Morgan)
Believe (Brooks & Dunn)
Daddy's Hands (Holly Dunn)
Go Rest High on That Mountain (Vince Gill)
Help Pour out the Rain (Buddy Jewell)
Holes in the Floors of Heaven (Steve Wariner)
Homesick (MercyMe)
I Can Only Imagine (MercyMe)
If I Had Only Known (Reba McEntire)-
If Tomorrow Never Comes (Garth Brooks)
If You Get There Before I Do (Collin Raye)
I'm Already There (Lonestar)
Life Ain't Always Beautiful (Gary Allan)
Life Without You (Stevie Ray Vaughn)
My Wish (Rascal Flatts)
Nobody Knows it but Me (Babyface)
One More Day (Diamond Rio)
Riverbank (Jeff Bates)
River of Time (The Judds)
Ships of Heaven (Blackhawk)
Sissy's Song (Alan Jackson)
Skin (Rascal Flatts)
Streets of Heaven (Sherrie Austin) About losing a young child
The Best I Ever Had (Gary Allan)
The Dance (Garth Brooks)
The Good Stuff (Kenny Chesney)
There Goes My Life (Kenny Chesney)
There You'll Be (Faith Hill)
Two Teardrops (Steve Wariner)
What Hurts the Most (Rascall Flatts)
When I Get Where I'm Going (Brad Paisley)
Who You'd Be Today (Kenny Chesney)
You'll be There (George Strait)

Religious Song/Christian Rock
"Dancing with the Angels" (Monk and Neagel)
My New Life Has Begun (Ralph Funaro)
Save a Place for Me (Matthew West)
Smiling Down (Pillar)


Happily my death is not the most important event in my life - nor was my birth. My purpose in life is not to get from the one to the other. It is to negotiate that troubled terrain with a degree of style, find some joy in it, discover some worthy work to do, and leave it in dignity and gratitude.