The Best Funeral Songs
It is no secret that music can be healing to those who are in need, and funeral songs are no exception. Choosing the right song to sing or play at a funeral is not an easy task. If you have to create a playlist to accompany a slideshow, the task can be even more overwhelming.
What funeral songs should I choose?
Is this funeral song too long?
Most Popular Funeral Songs
To help make things a little easier, we’ve compiled a list of the most popular funeral songs. If you don’t already own some of the songs listed below, your best bet would be to visit iTunes and purchase the individual tracks in a digital format – so the funeral songs can easily be burned to a CD or DVD.
Have a suggestion for a great funeral song? Send us the artist and title of the song to [email protected] and we’ll add it to the list!
Top Funeral Songs
(in no particular order)
- In My Life – Beatles
- Bury My Body – Al Kooper
- Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye) – Andrea Bocelli
- Bright Eyes – Art Garfunkle
- Memory – Barbra Streisand
- The Long and Winding Road – Beatles
- Let it be – Beatles
- Only the Good Die Young – Billy Joel
- Lean On Me – Bill Withers
- And When I Die – Blood Sweat and Tears
- Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan
- Amazing Grace – Elvis Presley
- Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
- Goodbye My Lover – James Blunt
- Angels – Robbie Williams
- Requiem – Pie Jesu
- Candle in the Wind – Elton John
- With or Without You – U2
- Unchained Melody – Righteous Brothers
- Every Breath You Take – The Police
- Dance With My Father Again – Luther Vandross
- It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye – BoysIIMen
- Wish You Where Here – The Kingsmen
- Time – The Alan Parsons Project
- Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Funeral For A Friend – Elton John
- Tears In Heaven – Eric Clapton
- One More Day – Diamond Rio
- Wishing You Were Here – Chicago
- Goodbye My Friend – Linda Ronstadt
- You’ll Be In My Heart – Phil Collins
- The Best – Tina Turner
- Like A River – Carly Simon
- Little Willow – Paul McCartney
- Love, Me – Collin Raye
- Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) – Billy Joel
- Now is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song) – Bing Crosby
- Memories (The Way We Were) – Barbara Streisand
- My Angel – Kellie Pickler
- My Immortal – Evanescence
- My One True Friend – Bette Midler
- Not A Day Goes By – Lonestar
- One Moment More – Mindy Smith
- Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) – Doris Day
- Reach for the Stars – S Club 7
- Nothing Compares 2 U – Sinead O’Connor
- Remember Me This Way – Jordan Hill
- Shine Your Light – Robbie Robertson
- Silent Lucidity – Queensryche
- Somewhere – Barbra Streisand (From West Side Story)
- Thank You – Ray Boltz
- The Gift You Are – John Denver
- Greatest Man I Never Knew – Reba McEntire
- The Way We Were – Barbra Streisand
- There You’ll Be –Faith Hill
- To Where You Are – Josh Groban
- Wasn’t It Good – Tina Arena
- Wherever You Are – Celeste Prince
- Who Wants to Live Forever – Queen
- Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
- Without You – The Dixie Chicks
- Yesterday – The Beatles
- You’re Missing – Bruce Springsteen
- Close To You – The Carpenters
- Butterfly – Mariah Carey
- In The Arms Of An Angel – Sarah McLachlan
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
- Thank You – Johnny Reid
- What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
- What Hurts the Most – Rascal Flatts
- Never Gone – Backstreet Boys
- Can’t Cry hard Enough – Williams Brothers
- Tenderly Calling – John Denver
- A New Star in the Sky – Air
- I’m Already There – Lonestar
- If You’re Reading This – Tim McGraw
- I’m Moving – Rascal Flatts
- Looking Through Your Eyes – Leann Rimes
- Never Too Far – Mariah Carey
- Into the West – Annie Lennox
- May It Be – Enya
- The Scientist – Coldplay
- We’ll Meet Again – Vera Lynn, Johnny Cash, Rosemary Clooney
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters – Simon & Garfunkel
- It’s so hard to say goodbye to yesterday – Boyz II Men
- The Rose – Bette Midler
- No One But You – Queen
- I’ll See You Again – Frank Sinatra
- Memories – Elvis Presley
- Seasons Of Love – Cast of Rent
- I Lived – One Republic
- Heaven – Beyonce
- If I Die Young – The Band Perry
- Loving Angels Instead – Robbie Williams
- Every Grain of Sand – Bob Dylan
- Take My Breath Away – Berlin
- If I had Known – Reba McEntire
- Talking to My Angel – Melissa Etheridge
- Never Without You – Ringo Star
- Never Can Say Goodbye – Gloria Gaynor
- One Sweet Day – Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men
- Through The Years – Kenny Rogers
- I’ll Remember – Madonna
- I’ll be Missing You – Puff Daddy feat Faith Evans and 112
- Ave Maria – Perry Como
- Landslide – Fleetwood Mac
- Only Time – Enya
- Spirit In the Sky – Gareth Gates
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down – Elton John
- Bye Bye – Mariah Carey
- Hero – Mariah Carey
- You’re Gone – Diamond Rio
- Wishing you were Somehow Here Again – from The Phantom of The Opera
- Wish You Were Here – Mark Wills
- Who’d You Be Today – Kenny Chesney
- The Prayer – Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion
- Try Not To Breathe – R.E.M
- They Can’t Take That Away from Me – Ella Fitzgerald
- The Last Words You Said – Sara Brightman
- Cheap Trick – The Flame
- Since I Lost You – Genesis
- Ships of Heaven – Blackhawk
- Ten Ft Tall – Pete Murray
- Tell Me I Was Dreaming – Travis Tritt
- Right Here Waiting – Richard Marx
- Really Gonna Miss You – Smokey Robinson
- Raging Sea – Michael W. Smith
- Oh Very Young – Cat Stevens
- My Little Girl – Tim McGraw
- Old and Wise – Alan Parsons Project
- My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
- Morning Bird – The Sleepy Jackson
- Look On Down from the Bridge – Mazzy Star
- Love is Stronger than Death – The The
- Life Without You – Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Life is Eternal – Carly Simon
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
- Let Him Fly – Linda Eder
- Keep Me in Your Heart – Warren Zevon
- Into The Mystic – Van Morrison
- If Tomorrow Never Comes – Ronan Keating
- I’ve Had the Time of My Life – Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley
- Imagine – John Lennon
- A Satisfied mind – Jeff Buckley
- Leader of the Band – Dan Fogelberg
- Live Like You Were Dying – Tim McGraw
- In This Life – Collin Raye
- My Way – Frank Sinatra