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Waylon

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Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:08pm

Hello Everyone,

Yes...this is a tad morbid, but I work for a Hospice and I am trying together a funny little CD with songs about death for my staff. Any ideas??

Thanks,
Way

GirlfriendFromCanada

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joined:10/7/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:09pm

"Bigass Rock"! The Full Monty.

Well, it's a funny song about killing yourself, at least.

EponineThenardier

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joined:4/3/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:10pm

"A Little Priest" Sweeney Todd

magruder

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joined:5/15/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:16pm

"What a Wonderful Way to Die" from The Bone Room

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

CapnHook

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joined:5/12/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:18pm

'Being Alive'

I'm sure there are some in ASSASSINS.

"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle

bythesword84

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joined:9/21/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:31pm

"Now" from Little Shop of Horrors, although that's more about killing the guy and the guy dies from laughing gas overdose and suffication, but it is really funny.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

AnothaPartofMe

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joined:5/22/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:43pm

I Can Live With That-- old people falling in love, and talking about their death a little.

Copacabana... "There was blood and a single gunshot, but just who shot who?" lol.

And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...

Kelly

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joined:5/11/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:47pm

'Death Is Such An Odd Thing' from Dance Of The Vampires. No cast recording though - unless you want it in German!

Perfect love, perfect sin...there is no perfect anything.

magruder

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joined:5/15/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 02:48pm

Don't know how I didn't think of this earlier but...

"The Elephant Song" from 70, Girls, 70.

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

BJC899

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joined:7/20/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 03:04pm

What's that song from Oliver? thats your funereal?

redhotinnyc2

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joined:2/17/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 03:35pm

How about "Thank you Very Much!" from Scrooge?

"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!" Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!

Cyndy

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joined:5/11/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 03:35pm

'Pore Jud is Daid' from Oklahoma
'One More Angel in Heaven' from Joseph...Dreamcoat

"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having." Henry Miller

millie_dillmount

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joined:4/22/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 04:19pm

Maybe something from Urinetown:
"Snuff That Girl"
"Don't Be the Bunny"
"What is Urinetown?"
"Act 1 Finale"
"Why Did I Listen to That Man?"

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Sumofallthings

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joined:5/13/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 04:21pm

Someone is on their Urinetown fix...

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

millie_dillmount

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joined:4/22/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 04:23pm

Great show.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

Sumofallthings

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re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 04:24pm

Amen.

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

commasplice

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re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 04:51pm

I LOVE "Don't Be the Bunny". The tollbooth part cracks me up every time.

"All Fall Down" from Romance in Hard Times could work as a funny death song.

cturtle

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joined:11/28/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 05:14pm

EVERY DAY A LITTLE DEATH - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

well, it's rather funny ...

RIP glebby <3

Loge

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joined:11/19/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 05:43pm

Oh, Sweeney Todd's "A Little Priest" is the BESTEST and most FUNNIEST song about death ever!

"What the hell happened to you? You look like a Make-A-Wish Kid. You know, I just knew you were gonna bring shame on this new family of ours, and it just figures you had to go make yourself over into some heroin-shootin skate board chic on the only day E! could interview you!" - Cherry Cherry, on her daughter Mary Cherry

Mister Matt

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joined:5/17/03

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 05:50pm

The Legacy - On the Twentieth Century

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

zaneyb3000

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joined:11/14/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 06:04pm

Well, it's not so much from a musical, but would "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life?" from Monty Python and the Life of Brian work?

S'aright? S'aright!

misterchoi

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re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 06:19pm

All of Elegies has very funny songs involving death. Buy the cd.

"elegies a song cycle" by William Finn

"Yesterday is done. See the pretty countryside. Merrily we roll along, roll along- catching at dreams."- Merrily we roll along "The living was the prize, the ending's not the story."- Elegies, a song cycle

rKrispyt

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re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 06:23pm

not really about death of people, so much as killing...

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park from Tomfoolery

funny, sadistic stuff, lol

If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?

Jon

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joined:2/20/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 06:34pm

"All You Have to Do is Wait" from CITY OF ANGELS.

BoxOfficeJon

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re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 07:00pm

You Gotta Die Sometime -- Falsettos

...this is wrong on so many levels... Diane Lane in "Must Love Dogs" "If you have poo, now is the time to fling it" -- The Monkey's from Madagascar

RoxieBroadway

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joined:12/8/04

re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/14/04 at 08:53pm

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life- Monty Python

It's not Broadway, but it's a great song. Monty Python is amazing.

"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of the stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you the truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." - the glass menagerie