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Funeral Songs and Other Music for a Funeral Service
Are you looking for a beautiful piece of music...just the perfect funeral song to remember someone you love? A fitting tune to say goodbye? You have come to the right place!
This song list is quite long, but by no means complete.
If you know of other suitable funeral songs, you are welcome to send in your recommendations by filling in the form at the bottom of the page.
If you want to download a copy of a song, any of the songs with  can be purchased for around 99 cents. You can copy them from your computer to a CD, MP3 player or ipod.
You could make a CD of all the songs that were played at a funeral service (plus a few of the deceased person's favourite songs) for a nice memorial gift for everyone that attended the funeral - because they could listen to the CD anytime to bring back fond memories of the person who has passed away. (This idea came from Next Gen Memorials - Providers of Beautiful Urns and Memorial Keepsakes)
On the iTunes website you can listen to a sample of any song by clicking near the track number.
On this Page:
Songs That Can Be Played While White Doves are Being Released
Popular Funeral Songs
Country Music Funeral Songs
Special Songs for the Funeral of a Baby or Child
Classical Music, Instrumental Music and Hymns
Lily's List - Songs that were played at Lily's funeral, plus links to iMixes of other real people's funeral song lists
All Songs are listed in Alphabetical Order by Artist Name
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
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Fly - Celine Dion
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Wings of a Dove - Charley Pride
The version that can be downloaded here is recorded by Rev. Milton Brunson & The Thompson Community Singers
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INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
(If You Love Somebody) Set Them Free - Sting
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Angels Among Us - Alabama
Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You - Ashley Gearing
Ships of Heaven - Blackhawk
When I Get to Where I'm Going - Brad Paisley (Featuring Dolly Parton)
Believe - Brooks and Dunn
Carry Me Across the Mountain - Dan Tyminski
I miss my friend - Darryl Worley
I Believe - Diamond Rio
Landslide - Dixie Chicks
Bury Me - Dwight Yoakam
There you'll be - Faith Hill
I want you to live - George Canyon
My Grandfather's Clock - Johnny Cash
Annie's Song - John Denver
Back Home Again - John Denver
Looking Through Your Eyes - Leann Rimes
Don't Cry a Tear - Lyle Lovett
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Mark Chesnutt
How can I help you say goodbye - Patty Loveless
The Lights on the Hill - Slim Dusty
Holes in the Floor of Heaven - Steve Wariner
Angels in Waiting - Tammy Cochrane
The Dreaming Fields - Trisha Yearwood (beautiful song to remember grandparents)
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- I Will - The Beatles
- Baby Mine - Bette Midler
- Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel
- One More Day With You - Diamond Rio
- Without You - Dixie Chicks
- Blessed - Elton John
- The Dance - Garth Brooks
- I Will Take You Home - Grateful Dead (song from a father to a daughter)
- Jesus Loves Me
- Jesus Loves the Little Children
- Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
- Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland
- To Where You Are - Josh Groban
- Precious Child - Karen Taylor-Good (www.compassionatefriends.org)
- Goodbye My Friend - Linda Ronstadt
- Even the Darkness is Light to Him - Michael Card
- Gone Too Soon - Michael Jackon
- Masterpiece - Sandy Patti
- With Hope - Steven Curtis Chapman
- Visitor From Heaven - Twila Paris
- Go Rest High - Vince Gill
- Glory Baby - Watermark
Thanks to Jessica and Jim Rose, Founders of The Three Little Angels Foundation for these song suggestions. The Three Little Angels Foundation offers unique tools to help parents suffering the heartbreak of infant death.
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- The Odes Project - Volume 1 (album)
- The Odes Project - Volume 2 (album)
- Adadgio for Strings - Albonini (Performed by New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Mumbai Theme - A.R.Rahman
- Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
- Hymns (the whole album) - Beth Nielsen Chapman
- Clair de Lune - Claude Debussy
- Psalm 121 - H. Howells
- Solemn Melody - H. Walford Davies
- How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair - J. Brahms
- Air on the G string - J.S. Bach (played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Gymnopedies(3)for piano - J.S. Bach
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - JS Bach
- Lord, Let Me Know Mine End - M. Greene
- Canon - Pachelbel (played by James Galway and John Georgiadis)
- Nessun Dorma - Puccini (performed here by Placido Domingo)
- The Waltz of the Flowers (From the Nutcracker) - Tchaikovsy
- Ave Maria - Verdi
- Ave Verum Corpus - W.A. Mozart
- Abide with me - WH Monk
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This songlist is dedicated to the memory of Lily Bennett who passed away 17th June, 2007 aged 3. 100s of people attended her funeral on a cold but sunny Saturday, 23rd June 2007.
Lily loved life and loved music - so music played a large part of her funeral service. Here are some of her favourite songs that were played in her memory.
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