Contemporary Funeral Music
*Open to song requests for each of the proceedings. The following popular songs are often performed for secular funeral services.
Funeral Service
Prelude ♪
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Blackbird - John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Fields of Gold - Sting
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Imagine - John Lennon
Into the West (from Lord of the Rings) - Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh & Howard Shore
La Vie En Rose - Édith Piaf & Louis Guglielmi
O Danny Boy - Frederic Weatherly
Memory (from Cats) - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Trevor Nunn
May It Be (from Lord of the Rings) - Enya & Roma Ryan
Moon River - Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Once Upon a Dream - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Jack Lawrence & Sammy Fain
Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) - Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (from Roberta) - Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach
Songbird - Christine Anne McVie
We’ll Meet Again - Ross Parker & Hughie Charles
What a Wonderful World - Bob Thiele & George David Weiss
When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Sigmund Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein II
You’ll Never Know (from Hello Frisco, Hello) - Harry Warren & Mack Gordon
Processional ♪
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Blackbird - John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Fields of Gold - Sting
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
I Will Always Love You (L'Amore Sei Tu) - Dolly Parton
O Danny Boy - Frederic Weatherly
Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) - Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (from Roberta) - Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton & Will Jennings
You’ll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel) - Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
Memorial Video ♪
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Blackbird - John Lennon & Paul McCartney
Candle In the Wind - Elton John & Bernie Taupin
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
I Will Always Love You (L'Amore Sei Tu) - Dolly Parton
Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) - Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg
Smile - Charlie Chaplin
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (from Roberta) - Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach
Someone To Watch Over Me (from Oh, Kay!) - George & Ira Gershwin
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton & Will Jennings
The Way We Were - Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman & Marvin Hamlisch
We’ll Meet Again - Ross Parker & Hughie Charles
What a Wonderful World - Bob Thiele & George David Weiss
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from Phantom of the Opera) - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe
You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban version) - Rolf Løvland & Brendan Graham
You’ll Never Walk Alone (from Carousel) - Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
Recessional ♪
Imagine - John Lennon
La Vie En Rose - Édith Piaf & Louis Guglielmi
Moon River - Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Once Upon a Dream - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Jack Lawrence & Sammy Fain
Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) - Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg
Smile - Charlie Chaplin
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (from Roberta) - Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach
We’ll Meet Again - Ross Parker & Hughie Charles
What a Wonderful World - Bob Thiele & George David Weiss
When I Grow Too Old To Dream - Sigmund Romberg & Oscar Hammerstein II
You’ll Never Know (from Hello Frisco, Hello) - Harry Warren & Mack Gordon