Funeral & Memorial Songs
Choosing Songs for Your Baby's Remembrance
Sr. Jane Marie Lamb, Foundress of Share, says in Bittersweet...hellogoodbye that "music has the power to express the experience of any reality in a way the spoken word cannot...and it offers a channel to express emotions that cannot find words." For many bereaved parents, the songs they choose for their baby's funeral is an important aspect of the service, and choosing songs which bring comfort will have an impact on the family in the months and years to come. Following is a list of songs, some with lyrics linked, that have been found to be meaningful to parents. They have been divided into religious and non-religious categories.
Non-Religious
- Angels Among Us
- Calling All Angels (Train)
- Fly (Celine Dion)
- In Loving Memory
- My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion)
- My Name (George Canyon)
- Somewhere Down the Road (Amy Grant and Wayne Kirkpatrick)
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton)
- Together Again (Janet Jackson)
- To Where You Are (Josh Groban)
- Who You'd be Today (Kenny Chesney)
- When I Look to the Sky (Train)
- Without You (Jonathon Larson)
Religious
- Amazing Grace
- Be Not Afraid
- Glory Baby (by Watermark, Nathan and Christy Nockels)
- God and Time (New Song)
- Goodbye for Now (Kathy Troccoli)
- Held (Natalie Grant)
- Hello, Goodbye (Michael W. Smith)
- Homesick (Mercy Me)
- How Great Thou Art
- I Can Only Imagine (Mercy Me)
- On Eagle's Wings
- Safe In the Arms of Jesus
- There'll be Peace in the Valley (Elvis)
- With Hope (Steven Curtis Chapman)
A bird does not sing because he has an answer,
he sings because he has a song
Chinese proverb
