Easter Songs

While there’s no shortage of Christmas songs, I was wondering about Easter songs?

Off hand I can only think of two

Easter Parade and Here Comes Peter Cottontail

Any others you can think of?

I assume you’re not looking for anything religious.

Any Easter songs. Are there any hymns that relate to Easter? I’m not that up to date on hymns

Up From the Grave He Arose is the classic Easter hymn in my church.

The ones that I recall the best from my days as a church organist and choir member (RC) are Jesus Christ is Risen Today and the various Easter Alleluias. I always liked the alleluias because after the somber season of Lent (when they are not used), they were vibrant and triumphant.

The Bunny Hop?

A few zillion or so. Here’s one list.

Handel’s Messiah is actually Easter music, though nowadays more often performed around Christmas.

There are few non-religious Easter songs that I know of except for children’s songs.

I am partial to the Diamanda Galas version of Were You There When They Crucified My Lord.

Johnny Cash & the Carters-Were You There

Although the events of Easter are not a theme in any of these, I think most of what the Cox Family does will fit nicely.

Will There Be Any Stars

Far Side Banks of Jordan

I Know Who Holds Tomorrow

I don’t think that this really qualifies, but there’s East At Easter by Simple Minds.

**The Easter Tree

Dave Goulder**

Rain falls upon the Easter Tree, the squirrel shakes his head
And shivers in his red and sodden fur
The wind and water flatten out his ears and force his streaming eyes to close
The smell of death is heavy in his nose

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I can’t find a link but one that I remember hearing as a kid was My Bunny and My Sister Sue, by Kay Twomey.

Jesus Christ Superstar :smiley:

Oh man, I can’t believe I found these lyrics. I have searched for years and years. Now if only I could find the actual song.

I used to listen to this song over and over and over around Easter time and every year I would beg my mother to make me a marshmallow bunny just like the one described in the song. And every year since I’ve thought about this song and thought about making one myself.

"T’was many and many a spring time ago,
I waited so long for the animal show.
To buy me a bunny, I’d saved up for weeks!
But, I woke up with measles all over my cheeks.
“Don’t fuss and don’t fidget,” my grandmother said,
“I’ll make you a marshmallow bunny, instead.”

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the rest here.

An affirmative answer from the alternative universe of the Grimleys:

Not bad- also Godspell.

From the Golden Age of Jesus Rock…

2nd Chapter of Acts’ “Easter Song”

Don Franscisco’s “He’s Alive”

Hymn-wise-
Charles Wesley’s “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today”

“He Arose” (I like this version because she started out rough but did a good job & she’s also cute)

…And then there’s Easter by Marillion.

I danced in the morning when the world was begun,
And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun,
And I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth,
At Bethlehem I had my birth.
Refrain

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The closest I can think of is the perenial Passover classic, Creeping Death by Metallica.

Well, mostly Easter, at least. A few of the songs (Unto Us a Child is Born, for instance) really do fit Christmas more.

But it’s frankly a bit silly to ask if there are any Easter hymns. Easter is the pivotal event in Christianity, and by far the most important holiday. Church services are on Sundays, because that was the day of Easter: There’s effectively a mini-Easter every week. Most Christian hymns can, in fact, be considered Easter songs.