I just love “Ebony Eyes” by the Everly Brothers
“I’ll never kiss those lips again. They buried you today”
They don’t write them like that anymore.
Ooh, I remember another couple of lines!
“You’ve gone to heaven so I’ve got to be good
so I can see my baby when I le-ave, this world”
Still bugging the hell out of me…
Tell laura I Love her was by Ray Peterson.
Star Crossed Lovers-Mystics
Echo-Emotions
Stagger Lee -Lloyd Price
Laurie(Strange Things Happen) by Dicky Lee about a girl who comes out of grave.
Three Bells -Browns
Terror of Highway 101-Cheers
Day in the Life-Beatles
Artificial Flowers-BDarin
Three stars-Tommy Dee
Ringo-Lorne Greene
American Pie-Don McLean
Ballad of Davy crocket-Fess Parker
The Bells-Dominoes-lead singer Clyde McPhatter sobs hysterically at lady friend’s funeral. The all time best death song.
Pammipoo, that’s “Last Kiss” (mentioned above).
A few more :
“Heartbreaker”, Rolling Stones
“American Girl”, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
“Ringfinger”, Nine Inch Nails (although it only mentions ‘dying’, death is a strong theme).
“Ellis Unit One”, Steve Earle (from Dead Man Walking soundtrack, also two songs with the title “Dead Man Walking” by Bruce Springsteen & Mary Chapin Carpenter, and yet another Tom Waits song “The Fall of Troy”)
“Pull Me Under”, Dream Theater
“This Train Revised”, Indigo Girls
“Fair”, “Brick”, Ben Folds Five
“Elegy for the Brave”, William Shatner
Pamm-that is Last Kiss by J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers-1964-Josie label. Texas group.
Teen Angel-Mark Dinning
I can’t believe nobody mentioned Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle”!After posting this I’m going to re-listen to it-just in case I’m wrong about it fitting this topic.
Yeah - it fits - and as an aside - I dare anyone to listen to that song and not tear up.
Don’t forget Nosferatu. Lots of death in that one, and some undeath as well. 
Extraneous, if we delve into folk/traditional music, we’ll be here until we die. Off the top of my head:
[ul]
[li]Step It Up Mary [/li][li]Paddy Murphy[/li][li]Ballad of Glen Coe[/li][li]Yo Ho Ho[/li][li]Roddy McCorley[/li][li]Green Fields of France[/li][li]The Ship that Never Returned[/li][li]Finnegan’s Wake (Temporarily, at least.)[/li][li]Irish Rover[/li][li]Patchwork (Very disturbing. Two children freeze to death.)[/li][li]Danny Boy (Which my nephew once described as “dangerously depressing”.)[/li][li]Yew Tree[/li][li]Bedlam Boys[/li][li]The Farmer’s Curst Wife[/li][li]Pretty Polly[/li][li]Old Devlins Was A-Waitin’[/li][/ul]
Enough. I need a drink now. Possibly several. 
NP: Social Distortion - Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell
oh, and add SDs 99 to life to the list.