What songs do they always sing at funerals where you live?

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<snerk> The Andy Song <snerk> I’m glad somebody else knows that Zsofia. :smiley:

Southern here too and Episcopal. Episcopal funerals down south tend to get a bit maudlin with the funeral music. I know particular favorites seem to be:

I Sing A Song Of The Saints Of God
Amazing Grace
In The Garden, AKA The Andy Song
On Eagles Wings
His Eye Is On The Sparrow

and a particular favorite of mine that seems to have burst on the scene at funerals as of late…

I Am The Bread Of Life

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swampie, is that the one with "And I will raise him up on the last day’?

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Hereabouts the most popular songs are “My Way”, “Children of the Grave” and “Fire” (the Arthur Brown hit).

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Amazing Grace is the one that seems to crop up the most often. My most memorable one was a coworker that had the MSU fight song played at his.

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I had never heard of singing at funerals until this thread.

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No? Not as part of the service, as a congregation? Or a soloist? (Precious Lord is always a soloist and they get all wild and crazy with it.)

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I’ve heard that once, but it was in the 1980s before it was quite that much of a cliche.

“Amazing Grace” seems to be a favorite in Nebraska protestant services. Can’t really speak for otherwise.

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Never, this is the progression from death to grave in Cuba:

  1. All night vigil in funeral home, much crying, talking, some drinking.
  2. Trip to the cemetery, the casket usually rides in a car, everyone else walks.
  3. Optional - for the religious there is a stop at the church where a funeral mass takes place, no singing in this mass.
  4. Go to the cemetery, place casket in ground or in a vault. That’s it.
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At my mom’s funeral, we sang both “In the Garden” and “Softly and Tenderly”, as well as “The Old Rugged Cross”.

Also, I had never heard “In the Garden” called “The Andy Song”, and was about to ask for an explanation, but then I got it. “Aaaaaan-dyyyyyyyyyy…” That’s hilarious. Unfortunately, now I’m going to be giggling at funerals.

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That Andy sure gets around. You know, I’m not really sure about the purity of his intentions.

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As a director with the oldest Japanese-American funeral home on the west coast in continuous operation under the same family since 1918 with the exception of a few years during WW2 when all Japanese were forcibly removed from the west coast and herded into concentration camps, my clients tend to be Japanese Americans many of whom originate from Hawaii. As such the most popular tune played at the majority of the services I have directed has become 'What a Wonderful World" by the late Hawaiian artist IZ. I hear it so often that I am sick of hearing it and now associate the song, which I used to really like, with funeral services.

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I"ve met multiple people who said they wanted the song always look on the bright side of life played at their funeral. But I don’t recall ever actually hearing it. Probably because Life of Brian is only 38 years old, I’m assuming most people who want it played at their funeral heard it first as kids.

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I know it’s a zombie but…

Among the RenFaire community, it’s Parting Glass. If I never hear it again, I will be a happy happy girl. I’ve forbidden my family from playing/singing it at my funeral.

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