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Thread #21554   Message #1549124
Posted By: GUEST,Lindsay
24-Aug-05 - 11:27 PM
Thread Name: Funeral Tunes, songs that heal
Subject: RE: Funeral Tunes, songs that heal
no-one has mentioned Sydney Carter's song "One More Step" with the wonderful chorus;

It's from the old I travel to the new
Keep me travelling along with you.

My father, a teacher and musician, died recently aged 82 and I had already chosen this as a personal preference for his eventual funeral, when he told me that he wished for "Love Divine" and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", which we gave him...