Comments on: Music That Hurts Too Much

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:22:48 +0000

Helen was the one who invited us in - her mum was upstairs in the wheelchair. This would have been around 1968 or 1969. It just killed me.

By: Amy

Amy — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:58:40 +0000

Christmas songs … no doubt about it; especially when sung by children. I remember when I was about twelve years old I went Christmas carolling with a bunch of friends. One of the stops was the Fogg’s house. We were invited in so we could sing to Mrs. Fogg who was upstairs in a wheelchair. We stood on the hall steps and sang Silent Night to her. She started to cry and to this day when I try to sing that song I feel like I have a potato in my throat. [Ohhhh, was it Helen Fogg? No, because she was never “Mrs.” Fogg… PB]

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:16:11 +0000

If you get a chance to listen to “A Visitor From Heaven” by Twila Paris, you will have your heart broken for all those who have lost a baby. It was played at my granddaughter’s funeral, and it embodies the deepest pain and love that any human can feel.

By: Shawn Koester

Shawn Koester — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:58:35 +0000

Jesus Loves the Little Children
Jesus Loves me
Will the Circle be Unbroken?
God be with You Til We Meet Again
Go Now in Peace
We Shall Overcome
Somebody Prayed for Me
He Touched Me
There’s a River Flowin’ in my Soul
We are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder/We are Dancing Sarah’s Circle
Wade in the Water
I love to Tell the Story
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

these were songs I accidentally left off the original list

By: Liz Hill

Liz Hill — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:29:46 +0000

Ah– bagpipes. How could I have left them off my list?
The weekend after 9/11 I had to run a writers conference in Colorado, so I was not allowed to “wallow” despite the fact I grew up in NYC and knew people who went through (and did not come through) that terrible day. Throughout that weekend the TV was on in the lobby of the hotel, and every time I passed the TV I heard the wail of bagpipes. Over and over and over. To a New Yorker, bagipes mean one of two things: either it’s St Paddy’s day or a fireman is dead. Bagpipes have never been the same for me.

Liz

By: sozzled

sozzled — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:54:48 +0000

Amazing Grace (on my funeral list WITH bagpipes)

Silent Night - every year at the “midnight” Christmas Eve service, in the dark, w/candles, unaccompanied, sung in four parts. I love my geeky music snob Lutheran church.

Borning Cry - always tear up for this one

Jesus Loves Me - sang at the funeral of a beloved pastor….450 people, a cappella, not a dry eye in the church. I am tearing up thinking about it.

and The Star-Spangled Banner, always makes me cry.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:40:22 +0000

I used to be ashamed I ever listened to his music in high school (wasn’t “cool”, was too sentimental, etc.), but I always liked Dan Fogelberg’s music, and somehow, “Another Auld Lang Syne” with its tale of life’s lost loves and emptiness always moved me pretty deeply, and it still does…in fact, I find it even more mournful in tone for me as I get older. Another singer/songwriter who left us too early.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:56:47 +0000

“All Through the Night” tore me UP in churchlast Mother’s Day.

“Scarlett Ribbons” by, well, anybody.

And I think there is a special circle of hell for me, both because I detest “The Shawshank Redemption” and because I want to back over every bagpiper I ever hear who destroys “Amazing Grace” on that infernal instrument with my car! (Is there a rule that bagpipers HAVE to play that song? Why? WHY!?!)

By: lela

lela — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:25:05 +0000

Be Still My Soul–we sang it at my dad’s funeral (and it was my baaaaad choice)
Ray Charles singing America the Beautiful.

There are others but I’m trying to be productive here!

By: G

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:01:52 +0000

Blest be the Tie that Binds