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gravesbane:
I am wright a funeral scene. I want there to be three songs played. I already have "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong and "Over The Rainbow" By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole but I still need a third title. I want another tune that that is hauntingly beautiful. Please help I have been stuck for months on a good title. Thanks in advance.

Gruud:
When I was a teenager one of my friends died. He had several brothers who stood as his pallbearers, and they carried the casket from the funeral home out to the gravesite.

The song they played was "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" and while up until that point I had always found the song to be a bit hokey, after that, and to this day, I can't hear it without getting a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.

It was a long and very powerful walk ...

FWIW.

Paynesgrey:

--- Quote from: gravesbane on December 16, 2011, 02:38:59 AM ---I am wright a funeral scene. I want there to be three songs played. I already have "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong and "Over The Rainbow" By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole but I still need a third title. I want another tune that that is hauntingly beautiful. Please help I have been stuck for months on a good title. Thanks in advance.

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Can you tell us more about the character and how the character died?  That might help... a song dripping with Noble Self Sacrifice wouldn't quite fit at funeral for a small child who got sick, for example.

And are you planning on writing in the lyrics, or prefering to use a song "everyone knows" and just mention the name?

trboturtle:

--- Quote from: gravesbane on December 16, 2011, 02:38:59 AM ---I am wright a funeral scene. I want there to be three songs played. I already have "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong and "Over The Rainbow" By Israel Kamakawiwo'ole but I still need a third title. I want another tune that that is hauntingly beautiful. Please help I have been stuck for months on a good title. Thanks in advance.

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Solo piper playing "Coming Home" or "Amazing Grace"  -- the version done by the pipes and drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is especially haunting and beautiful....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8AeV8Jbx6M&feature=related

Craig

meg_evonne:

--- Quote from: Gruud on December 16, 2011, 11:18:02 AM ---When I was a teenager one of my friends died. He had several brothers who stood as his pallbearers, and they carried the casket from the funeral home out to the gravesite.

The song they played was "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" and while up until that point I had always found the song to be a bit hokey, after that, and to this day, I can't hear it without getting a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.

It was a long and very powerful walk ...

FWIW.

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How very moving and powerful.

Amazing Grace came to mind to me as well, like Craig's suggestion. Here's a cheat sheet, grab a hymnal from any church. They are organized by type. You'll find funeral songs all together, I believe. You can stop by any church, sit in a pew, and research away.  No one will mind.

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