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Songs appropriate for children to sing at funerals?

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20wkbaby · 24/09/2013 09:34

Any ideas of songs appropriate for children to sing at a funeral (of their great-grandmother in this case). Preferably that would already be familiar to them as some are not old enough to read quickly on sight.

Something not too morbid please?

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StitchingMoss · 24/09/2013 09:39

All things bright and beautiful is a popular choice.

20wkbaby · 24/09/2013 12:34

The children range from 6 to 11 so the younger ones probably couldn't follow the words easily of a song they were not familiar with. It will be at a crematorium but hymns are not necessarily out.

Just wondered if someone could think laterally and come up with a children's song that had some additional meaning relevant to a funeral. I am thinking about bedtime songs maybe...

Thanks StitchingMoss - All Things Bright and Beautiful has been suggested but rejected for some reason.

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sonlypuppyfat · 24/09/2013 12:40

Morning has broken is lovely. I went to a funeral once and I cannot for my life sing its awful they put on All things bright and beautiful and I was the only one singing but I couldn't stop as that would have been worse!

20wkbaby · 24/09/2013 12:46

Just made myself cry looking at the lyrics of lullabies and thinking of them being sung at a funeral. Especially as my grandmother whose funeral it is lost her own mother at 2 months old.

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