Funeral Music Suggestions
On this page is a selection of music that has been used during funeral services. Remember that music is a very personal choice and this list is very diverse for that reason. They are purely suggestions and are designed to help you make the perfect choice for your loved one’s service.
You can download the Selected Funeral Music booklet here.
If you would prefer a piece of music that is not included, don’t worry – you can. Simply include the details when you fill in the faxable order form or the online form.
Our aim is your satisfaction and to ensure your loved one has a fitting farewell.
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A Day Without Rain – Enya
A Different Corner – George Michael
A Gaelic Blessing – Rutter Cambridge Singers
A Heart Full Of Love (Les Miserables)
A Life On The Ocean Wave – Band Of The Royal Marines
A New Day Has Come – Celine Dion
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square – Anne Shelton
A Place In The Sun – Stevie Wonder
A Taste Of Honey – Acker Bilk
A Thousand Beautiful Things – Annie Lenox
A Whiter Shade Of Pale – Procul Harum
Abide With Me – Fron Male Voice Choir
Adagio For Strings – Barber
After All These Years – Foster & Allen
Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers
Albatross – Fleetwood Mac
All By Myself (Solo Otra Vez) – Il Divo
All I Want Is You – U2
All Love Can Be (A Beautiful Mind) – Charlotte Church
All My Loving – The Beatles
All Things Bright And Beautiful – Children’s Choir
All Through The Night (Ar Hyd Y Nos) – Aled Jones
All Time Love – Will Young
Alleluia (Exsultate Jubilate) – Mozart
Always – Bon Jovi
Always On My Mind – Elvis Presley
Amazed – Lonestar
An Irish Lullaby – Daniel O’ Donnell
Angels – Robbie Williams
Are You Lonesome Tonight – Elvis Presley
As Time Goes By (from Casablanca)
Ave Maria – Bach
B
Baby Can I Hold You – Tracy Chapman
Be Still For The Presence Of The Lord – Aled Jones
Be Still My Soul – Katherine Jenkins
Be With You – Enrique Iglesias
Beautiful – Christina Aguilera
Beautiful Boy – John Lennon
Beautiful Day – U2
Because You Loved Me – Celine Dion
Begin The Beguine – Julio Iglesias
Best I Could – Barbara Streisand
Better Together – Jack Johnson
Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
Blue Moon – The Marcels
Blue Velvet – Bobby Vinton
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
Bolero – Ravel
Braveheart (Main Theme) – James Horner
Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Bright Eyes – Art Garfunkel
Bring Me Sunshine – Morecambe & Wise
Broken Wings – Mr Mister
Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits
Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison
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Can You Feel The Love Tonight – Elton John
Can’t Help Falling In Love – Elvis Presley
Can’t Smile Without You – Barry Manilow
Candle In The Wind – Elton John
Canon In D – Pachelbel
Careless Whisper – George Michael
Caribbean Blue – Enya
Carmen (Entr’acte Act 3) – Bizet
Catch A Falling Star – Perry Como
Cavatina (The Deer Hunter) – Harp
Cello Concerto (1st Mvt) – Elgar
Champagne Supernova – Oasis
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Chiquitita – Abba
Circle Of Life (Lion King) – Elton John
Clair De Lune (Orchestral) – Debussy
Close To You – The Carpenters
Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
Come Fly With Me – Frank Sinatra
Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd
Cry – James Blunt
Crying In The Chapel – Elvis Presley
Cwm Rhondda (English & Welsh) – Bryn Terfel
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Dambusters March – Central Band RAF
Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker) – Tchaikovsky
Dance Of The Swans (Swan Lake) – Tchaikovsky
Dance With My Father – Luther Vandross
Danny Boy – Bryn Terfel
Dark Side Of The Moon – Pink Floyd
Days – Kirsty MacColl
Dear Lord And Father Of Mankind – Aled Jones
Delilah – Tom Jones
Desperado – The Eagles
Dignity – Bob Dylan
Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep – Katherine Jenkins
Don’t Fear The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Elton John & George Michael
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E Lucevan Le Stelle (Tosca) – Puccini
Easter Hymn – Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Edelweiss (The Sound Of Music) – Julie Andrews
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (2nd Mvt) – Mozart
Elegie In C Minor – Faure
Emperor Waltz – Strauss
Endless Love – Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
Eternal Father Strong To Save – London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra
Etude In C Minor Op10 No12 (Revolutionary) – Chopin
Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Ella Fitzgerald
Evening Falls – Enya -
Evening Hymn + Last Post – Massed Bands Of The Guards Division
Evergreen – Barbara Streisand
Every Breath You Take – Sting & The Police
Everybody Hurts – REM
Everything I Do I Do It For You – Bryan Adams
Everything I Own – Bread
F
Fallen Embers – Enya
Fanfare For The Common Man – Emerson Lake & Palmer
Fantasia In D Minor K397 – Mozart
Faraway Places – Vera Lynn
Feel – Robbie Williams
Fernando – Abba
Ferry Cross The Mersey – Gerry & The Pacemakers
Fields Of Athenry – The Dublin City Ramblers
Fields Of Gold – Sting or Eva Cassidy
Finlandia – Sibelius
First Of May – Bee Gees
Fix You – Coldplay
Flow Gently Sweet Afton – Jo Stafford
Flower Of Scotland (Vocal) – Traditional
Fly Me To The Moon – Frank Sinatra
Flying Without Wings – Westlife
Follow You Follow Me – Genesis
Footprints – Ken Dodd
Footprints In The Sand – Leona Lewis
Footsteps – Daniel O’Donnell
Forever Autumn (War Of The Worlds) – Justin Hayward
Forever Young – Rod Stewart
Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Friday’s Child – Will Young
Friends Will Be Friends – Queen
From A Distance – Bette Midler
From Here To Eternity – Frank Sinatra
From This Moment On – Shania Twain
Fur Elise – Beethoven
G
Galway Bay – Instrumental
Get Here – Oleta Adams
Get Off Of My Cloud – The Rolling Stones
God Be With You – Bryn Terfel
God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
Going Home – Dvorak
Gold – Spandau Ballet
Goldberg Variations (Aria) – Bach
Golden Days – Mario Lanza
Gone Fishin’ – Bing Crosby
Goodbye My Lover – James Blunt
Goodbye To Love – The Carpenters
Greatest Love Of All – Whitney Houston
Green Door – Frankie Vaughan
Greensleeves – Mantovani
Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer – Fron Male Voice Choir
Guitar Concerto (2nd Mvt) – Rodrigo
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Habanera (Carmen) – Bizet
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah) – Handel
Happy Heart – James Last -
Harry’s Game (Theme) – Clannad
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You – Van Morrison or Rod Stewart
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman – Bryan Adams
He Ain’t Heavy He’s My Brother – The Hollies
He Was Beautiful (Cavatina) – Lesley Garrett
He Who Would Valiant Be – Guildford Cathedral Choir
Heaven – Bryan Adams
Heaven Can Wait – Meat Loaf
Heaven For Everyone – Queen
Heaven From Here – Robbie Williams
Here Comes The Sun – The Beatles
Here I Am Lord – Daniel O’Donnell
Hero – Mariah Carey
Hero (English) – Enrique Iglesias
Heroes – David Bowie
Hey Jude – The Beatles -
Holding Back The Years – Simply Red
Home – Michael Buble or Westlife
Hotel California – The Eagles
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart – Michael Buble
How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees
How Do I Live – Leann Rimes
How Great Thou Art – Fron Male Voice Choir
How Sweet It Is – Marvin Gaye
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I Am What I Am – Gloria Gaynor
I Am Woman – Helen Reddy
I Am Your Angel – Celine Dion & R Kelly
I Believe – Russell Watson
I Believe In You – Il Divo & Celine Dion
I Believe My Heart – Duncan James & Keedie
I Can Hear Music – The Beach Boys
I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
I Cried For You – Katie Melua
I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing – Aerosmith
I Have A Dream – Abba
I Have Nothing – Whitney Houston
I Just Called To Say I Love You – Stevie Wonder
I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself – Dusty Springfield
I Know That My Redeemer Liveth (Messiah) – Handel
I Know You By Heart – Eva Cassidy
I Only Want To Be With You – Dusty Springfield
I Say A Little Prayer – Aretha Franklin
I Vow To Thee My Country – Katherine Jenkins
I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
I’d Wait For Life – Take That
I’ll Stand By You – The Pretenders
I’ll Walk Beside You – Bryn Terfel
I’ve Had The Time Of My Life (Dirty Dancing) – Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
If Tomorrow Never Comes – Ronan Keating
If You Don’t Know Me By Now – Simply Red
Imagine – John Lennon or Eva Cassidy
In Heavenly Love Abiding – Salvation Army International Staff Band
In My Life – The Beatles
Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
Isn’t She Lovely – Stevie Wonder
It Must Be Love – Madness
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Jerusalem – G4 or Fron Male Voice Choir
Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring – Bach
John Dunbar Theme (Dances With Wolves) – John Barry
Jupiter (The Planets) – Holst
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Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan
L
La Campanella – Paganini
La Donna E Mobile (Rigoletto) – Verdi
La Vie En Rose – Edith Piaf
Lady In Red – Chris De Burgh
Land Of Hope And Glory (Choral & Orchestral) – Elgar
Land Of My Fathers (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau) – Bryn Terfel
Lara’s Theme (Dr Zhivago) – James Last
Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
Lead Us Heavenly Father Lead Us – Guildford Cathedral Choir
Let It Be – The Beatles -
Let There Be Love – Nat King Cole
Lifted – Lighthouse Family
Like A Star – Corinne Bailey Rae
Lord Of All Hopefulness – Guildford Cathedral Choir
Love Changes Everything – Climie Fisher
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing – Matt Monro
Love Is All Around – Wet Wet Wet
Love Me Tender – Elvis Presley
Lovin’ Each Day – Ronan Keating
Lullaby (Orchestral) – Brahms
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Mad World – Gary Jules
Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace – Aled Jones
Mama – The Spice Girls
Mandy – Barry Manilow
Memory (Cats) – Barbara Streisand
Michelle – The Beatles
Millennium – Robbie Williams
Miserere Mei (English) – Allegri
Miss You Like Crazy – Natalie Cole
Miss You Nights – Cliff Richard
Moon River – Mantovani
Morning (Peer Gynt) – Grieg
Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens
Mr Blue Sky – ELO
Mull Of Kintyre – Paul McCartney & Wings
My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
My Way – Frank Sinatra
N
Nearer My God To Thee – Bryn Terfel
Nella Fantasia – Il Divo
Nessun Dorma (Turandot) – Puccini
Nights In White Satin – The Moody Blues
Nine Million Bicycles – Katie Melua
No Regrets – Robbie Williams
No Regrets – The Walker Brothers
Nocturne (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) – Mendelssohn
Non Je Ne Regrette Rien – Edith Piaf
Nothing Else Matters – Metallica
Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You – Glenn Medeiros
Now Is The Hour (Po Ata Rau) – Kiri Te Kanawa
O
One – U2
One Day At A Time – Lena Martell
One Day I’ll Fly Away – Randy Crawford
One Moment In Time – Whitney Houston
Only Yesterday – The Carpenters
Only You – Yazoo or The Flying Pickets
Orinoco Flow – Enya
Out Of Africa (Main Theme) – John Barry
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Paint The Sky With Stars – Enya
Panis Angelicus – Franck
Pastoral Symphony 6 (1st Mvt Opening) – Beethoven
Patience – Take That
Perfect Day – Lou Reed
Pie Jesu (Requiem) – Faure
Praise My Soul The King Of Heaven – Guildford Cathedral Choir
Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison
Psalm 23 (The Lord Is My Shepherd)
Put On A Happy Face – Matt Monro -
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Que Sera Sera – Doris Day
Queen Of My Heart – Westlife
Quello Che Faro Sara Par Te (Everything I Do I Do It For You) – Katherine Jenkins
R
Raining In My Heart – Buddy Holly
Red Sails In The Sunset – Nat King Cole
Red Sails In The Sunset – Perry Como
Return To Innocence – Enigma
Rhapsody In Blue – Gershwin
Ride Like The Wind – Christopher Cross
Romeo And Juliet – Dire Straits
Romeo And Juliet (Love Theme) – Tchaikovsky
Rose (Titanic) – Soundtrack
Rose Adagio (Sleeping Beauty) – Tchaikovsky
Run – Snow Patrol
Runaway – The Corrs
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Sacrifice – Elton John -
Sail Away – David Gray
Sailing – Rod Stewart
San Damiano (Heart And Soul) – Aled Jones
Save A Prayer – Duran Duran
Save The Last Dance For Me – The Drifters
Saviour’s Day – Cliff Richard -
Say A Little Prayer – Dionne Warwick
Search For The Hero – M People -
Seventeen Come Sunday – Vaughan Williams
She Was Beautiful (Cavatina) – Bryn Terfel
She’s A Lady – Tom Jones
She’s Like The Wind – Patrick Swayzee
Shepherd Moons – Enya
Shine – Take That
Simply The Best – Tina Turner
Sisters – The Beverley Sisters
Someone Like You – Van Morrison
Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart – Gene Pitney
Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
Song For Guy – Elton John
Songbird – Eva Cassidy
Spread A Little Happiness – Sting
Stairway To Heaven – Led Zeppelin
Stars – Simply Red
Stranger On The Shore – Acker Bilk
Strangers In The Night – Frank Sinatra
Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles
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Take Me Home Country Roads – John Denver
Take My Breath Away – Berlin
Tears In Heaven – Eric Clapton -
Tell Him – Celine Dion & Barbara Streisand
Thank You – Dido
Thank You For Loving Me – Bon Jovi
Thank You For The Music – Abba
That Ole Devil Called Love – Alison Moyet
That’s Life – Frank Sinatra
That’s What Friends Are For – Dionne Warwick & Friends
The Air That I Breathe – The Hollies
The Chain (Grand Prix Excerpt) – Fleetwood Mac
The Closest Thing To Crazy – Katie Melua
The Day Thou Gavest – Aled Jones
The Fields Of Athenry – Brendan Shine
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
The Fool On The Hill – The Beatles
The Four Seasons_Spring – Vivaldi
The Godfather Waltz – Nino Rota
The Green Green Grass Of Home – Tom Jones
The Hills Are Alive (The Sound Of Music)
The Impossible Dream – Matt Monro
The Irish Rover – The Pogues & The Dubliners
The Lark Ascending – Vaughan Williams
The Last Post – Traditional
The Living Years – Mike & The Mechanics
The Long And Winding Road – The Beatles
The Lord’s My Shepherd – Traditional
The Man You Love – Il Divo
The Most Beautiful Girl – Charlie Rich
The Power Of Love – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
The Power Of Love – Jennifer Rush
The Prayer – Charlotte Church & Josh Groban
The Rose Of Tralee – Josef Locke
The Show Must Go On – Queen
The Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel
The Twelfth Of Never – Johnny Mathis
The Very Thought Of You – Nat King Cole
The Way We Were – Barbara Streisand
The White Cliffs Of Dover – Vera Lynn
The Whole Of The Moon – Waterboys
The Wild Rover – The Dubliners
The Wonder Of You – Elvis Presley
There Will Come A Day – Faith Hill
These Are The Days Of Our Lives – Queen
They Can’t Take That Away From Me – Frank Sinatra
Thinking Of You – Paul Weller
This Woman’s Work – Kate Bush
Three Times A Lady – Lionel Richie & The Commodores
Tie A Yellow Ribbon – Tony Orlando & Dawn
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
Time To Say Goodbye – Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor – Bach
Together We Are Beautiful – Fern Kinney
Total Eclipse Of The Heart – Bonnie Tyler
Touch Me In The Morning – Diana Ross
Trouble – Coldplay
Truly Madly Deeply – Savage Garden
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Un Bel Di Vedremo (Madame Butterfly) – Puccini
Una Furtiva Lagrima (L’elisir D’amore) – Donizetti
Unbreak My Heart – Toni Braxton
Unfinished Sympathy (Original Mix) – Massive Attack
Unforgettable – Nat King Cole
Until It’s Time For You To Go – Elvis Presley
Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
Uptown Girl – Billy Joel
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Va Pensiero (Nabucco) – Verdi
Valentine – Richard Hawley
Venus (The Planets) – Holst
Vespera – Libera
Vide Cor Meum – Katherine Jenkins
Vincent (Starry Starry Night) – Don Mclean
Violin Concerto 1 (1st Mvt) – Bruch
Visions – Cliff Richard
Vissi D’arte (Tosca) – Puccini
Voca Me – Libera
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Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
Walking In The Air (The Snowman) – Aled Jones
Waltzing Matilda – Band Of The Royal Marines
Water Music (Air) – Handel -
Watermark – Enya
We Have All The Time In The World – Louis Armstrong
We Laughed – Rosetta Life
We’ll Be Together Again – Various
We’ll Keep A Welcome – Bryn Terfel
We’ll Meet Again – Vera Lynn
What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted – Jimmy Ruffin
When I Fall In Love – Nat King Cole
When Somebody Loves You – Frank Sinatra
When Will I See You Again – The Three Degrees
When You Believe – Mariah Carey & Whitney Houston
Where’er You Walk (Semele) – Handel
Wherever You Will Go – The Calling
White Flag – Dido
Wind Beneath My Wings – Bette Midler
With A Little Help From My Friends – Joe Cocker
With Or Without You – U2
Without You – Harry Nilsson
Woman – John Lennon
Woman In Love – Barbara Streisand -
Wonderful Tonight – Eric Clapton -
Wonderful World – James Morrison
Wonderwall – Oasis
Words – Boyzone
Y
Yesterday – The Beatles
You And Me Song – The Wannadies
You Are The Sunshine Of My Life – Stevie Wonder
You Do Something To Me – Paul Weller
You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me – Dusty Springfield
You Raise Me Up – Various
You To Me Are Everything – The Real Thing
You Were Loved – Whitney Houston
You’ll Never Walk Alone – Gerry & The Pacemakers
You’re All That Matters To Me – Curtis Stigers
You’re Beautiful (Clean version) – James Blunt
You’re In My Heart – Rod Stewart
You’re My Best Friend – Queen
You’re My World – Cilla Black
You’re The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me – Gladys Knight & The Pips
You’re The First The Last My Everything – Barry White
You’re The Inspiration – Chicago
You’ve Got A Friend – James Taylor
Your Song – Elton John
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Zadok The Priest – Handel
Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart – Judy Garland