Sleep When I’m Dead - warren zevon
Brothers in Arms - dire straits.
“I Hope You Die”-Bloodhound Gang (implied)
What’s that old song about Casey Jones and the train wreck?
“Riders on the Storm”-the Doors (actually, it’s about a serial killer, but what the heck…)
“Undun”-Guess Who (about drug addiction, you don’t know if the girl dies or not though).
“Undun”? I listened to that song on the radio when it first came out (I have the single now), and I never connected it with drugs.
She found a mountain that was far too high
And when she found out she couldn’t fly…
She didn’t know what she was headed for
And when she found what she was headed for…
She’s gone too far
She’s lost her sun
She’s come Undun.
Drugs? 
It sounded really poetic, but I think “Puff, the Magic Dragon” sounded more drug-related. 
How about:
-“Down By the River” by Neil Young;
-“Pepper” by the Butthole Surfers;
(Shouldn’t this revived thread be in Cafe Society?)
Mr. Bojangles–his dog. Don’t know the artist, sorry.
I can’t remember the title but Richard Marx recorded a song in the mid 80’s set in Nebraska about a young couple who dreamed of ways to leave their small town. The young woman was found dead by the river side and the young man was under suspicion as her killer. The young woman’s name was Mary if that jogs anyone’s memory.
Ringo - Lorne Greene
Brown-Eyed Women - Grateful Dead
Running Bear - don’t even WANT to know
Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones
Sister Morphine – Rolling Stones
Yer Blues – The Beatles
Lucky Man – Emerson Lake and Palmer
Louise – Bonnie Raitt
And When I Die – Laura Nyro; Blood Sweat and Tears
Gallows Pole – Led Zeppelin
In My Time of Dying – Led Zeppelin
Mexicali Blues – Grateful Dead
Saturday Night Special --Lynyrd Skynyrd
Curtis Lowe – Lynyrd Skynyrd
My Father’s Gun – Elton John
“Jeremy” by Pearl Jam
“Travelin’ Soldier” by The Dixie Chicks
“Ohio”, “Tired Eyes”, “The Needle and the Damage Done” by Neil Young
“Adam’s Song” by Blink 182
“Indiana Wants Me” by R. Dean Taylor
“Danny Bailey” (?), “Ticking” by Elton John
“Freddie’s Dead” by Curtis Mayfield
Cruel War
Below the Gallows Tree
Ramblin’ Boy
Born in East Virginia
Barbara Allen
Po’ Howard (Howard’s Dead And Gone)
Greenland Whale Fisheries
and, for the giggles factor:
Aunt Rhodie
("Go tell Aunt Rhodie
That the old gray goose is dead…)
Puff (The Magic Dragon)
(“A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys…”)
- folk music forever!
Also by Neil Young: Don’t Let It Bring You Down
("Dead man lying by the side of the road
With the daylight in his eyes…)
Some more come to mind:
-“Where to Now St. Peter?” by Elton John;
-“Reason to Believe” by Bruce Springsteen (dead dog);
-“The Late Great Johnny Ace” by Paul Simon;
-“The Man’s Too Strong” by Dire Straits.
Just a few random ones I came up with that I don’t think have been mentioned so far:
“Rasputin” - Boney M
“Smooth Criminal” - Michael Jackson
“Her Ghost in the Fog” - Cradle of Filth
“Where the Wild Rose” - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & Kylie
This thread filled up fast.
I need to get some more music.
“Richard Hung Himself” by DI
“Tomorrow, Wendy” by Concrete Blonde
“Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus
“Alice Henderson” by The Sons Of Freedom
“Psycho” by Elvis Costello
Don’t try to google “Teen Angel” to find out who sang it. It’s depressing enough to get you your own song.
Rocky Racoon - The Beatles
Run For Your Life - The Beatles
I Want My Baby Back - The Downliners Sect
Check out this old thread in Cafe Society that lists songs about killing.
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
Medstar - that song was “Hazard”
The Doors - The Unknown Soldier
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
“Yellow matter custard dripping from a DEAD dog’s eye”
Who sang the “sequel” to Space Oddity? Didn’t Major Tom die?
For a “joke” pop band, They Might Be Giants have an awful lot of songs about death, or murder, or suicide, or just with references to death in them.
Exquisite Dead Guy
Till My Head Falls Off
Dig My Grave
Turn Around
Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
Dead
No One Knows My Plan
Where Your Eyes Don’t Go
Hopeless Bleak Despair
That’s just a few. I once did a list of all the references to death I could find in They Might Be Giants songs, just out of boredom, but I don’t remember where I saved it.
The Freshman- Verve Pipe
There’s another song I can’t put my finger on the lyrics or title…it was about a couple driving down a highway, and getting in a car accident, and the girl died…they came out with a remake a few years back…Where did my baby go, or something?
God this is gonna bug me until I figure it out
Pammipoo, you may be thinking of “I Want My Baby Back,” by Jimmy Cross, from about 1964. This has been played by Dr. Demento on his show, naturally, and he apparently helped compile an album titled “The World’s Worst Records,” which includes Cross’s song.
At the end the singer finishes digging up his girl’s grave, and opens the casket, and gets inside, and closes the lid; the song ends with him singing, in a muffled voice, “I got my baby back…” 