Ok, I’ll admit my ignorance!
Who was the composer/author/source for that funeral tune one has heard so often on TV and in movies. I’ve even heard it in cartoons.
It’s slow and depressing and sterotypical of death and funerals.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t recognize that music, it’s not the one I mean.
I wish I could make a musical notation of how it sounds.
Frederic Chopin:
That’s it! Thank you so much! I don’t know why I started thinking about this, but when I have these ideas I know where to turn.
I knew Liszt wrote one too, but after listening to it I realized it wasn’t the one you wanted.
Is it Chopin’s Funeral March? It was the first sugestion from gooling looney tunes funeral.
Or a slowed down version of “The Worms Crawl In?” also called “The Hearse Song”
Ninja-ed, curses!
Pray for the dead and the dead will pray for you. 
What makes it a march? It sure seems more like a dirge to me.
I have that same lyric go through my head every time I hear this. Where did it come from? I’m certain that Chopin didn’t write lyrics for it.
So did Beethoven, and so did Mahler (if you count orchestrating “Frere Jacques” as a funeral march).
The obligatory Monty Python link: Monty Python - Undertaker's Film - YouTube
Simply because they have nothing else to do.
Here’s another funeral march, but I wouldn’t describe it as slow and depressing.
That was used as the theme for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
The painting in that YouTube clip is of the funeral of Charles XII of Sweden, whose enemies had captured his wardrobe and melted the buttons into bullets; one of which took out Charles
Since you guys already grabbed the Gounod link, here’s Purcel’s funeral march for Queen Mary, which you’ll recognize from A Clockwork Orange.
Yes, but Liszt’s was the first one that came to mind and the one I originally posted.
RIP Paul Bearer