Let's start the week on a cheery note -- songs about Death! (Maybe second only to Love as a song subject)

[Zorro]

 

[Hoops66]

One for us old folk song listeners...

 

[Hoops66]

Ah the long version....

 

[Scud49]

The Dead - "Me and My Uncle"

 

[Scud49]

Bob Weir's Kingfish:

 

[meyers7]

With apologies to Spinal Tap and Stillwater, Steel Dragon is probably the best ever fake band. 3

But Spinal Tap is still the loudest.

 

[Scud49]

"So I shot them down, one by one, and left them along the rails".....

 

[nwhoopfan]

But Spinal Tap is still the loudest.

Only because their speakers go to 11.

 

[Ozimoto]

I don't think this one has been posted.

 

[Ozimoto]

In celebration of our Huskies from up north who made the Canadian Olympic team, here is one from Ian and Sylvia.

 

[Ozimoto]

In keeping with the Ian and Sylvia vein and the with death being a common theme in many folk songs, here is another.

 

[Zorro]

 

[nwhoopfan]

How's this for cheery--everybody he knew growing up, friends and family, have died. This is an oldy, many versions of it.

 

[nwhoopfan]

Another oldie w/ many versions, it might have popped up on this thread already, can't remember.

 

[Zorro]

 

[CL82]

Pretty good but needs more cowbell.

 

[Lawrence]

The End, by Jim Morrison and the Doors.

 

[VA Huskie]

One of my favorite songs of all time. Got to see him sing it live once.

 

[VA Huskie]

Still hard to listen to without it affecting you.....

If this song doesn’t affect you, you better check for a heartbeat…

 

[VA Huskie]

Bob Dylan - Murder Most Foul (about JFK).

John Prine - ⎌When I Get To Heaven. Typical Prine humor. Sadly (and joyfully) I got to see him sing it live a few months before he died.

no idea how to post the songs. Sorry…

 

[CTtoSanDiego]

VERY young Bee Gees

 

[fireford]

And when I die, and when I'm gone
There'll be one child born
In this world to carry on, to carry on

 

[fireford]

Goodbye Papa it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky

 

[fireford]

Shannon is gone I heard
She's drifting out to sea

Poor doggie...

 

[fireford]

Oh, they say she died one winter
When there came a killing frost
And the pony she named Wildfire
Busted down its stall
In a blizzard, he was lost