Funny Songs About Death
Funny Songs About Death
Waylon
Understudy Joined: 7/16/04
#1Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:08pm
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/7/03
#2re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:09pm
"Bigass Rock"! The Full Monty.
Well, it's a funny song about killing yourself, at least.
magruder
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:16pm"What a Wonderful Way to Die" from The Bone Room
"Gif me the cobra jool!"
#5re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:18pm
'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
--Aristotle
#6re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:31pm"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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#7re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:43pm
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...
#8re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:47pm'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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 2:48pm
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
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#10re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 3:04pmWhat's that song from Oliver? thats your funereal?
#11re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 3:35pmHow 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!
#12re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 3:35pm
'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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#13re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 4:19pm
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
#14re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 4:21pmSomeone 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#15re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 4:23pm
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
#16re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 4:24pmAmen.
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#17re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 4:51pm
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.
#18re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 5:14pm
EVERY DAY A LITTLE DEATH - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
well, it's rather funny ...
RIP glebby <3
#19re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 5:43pmOh, 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
#20re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 5:50pmThe Legacy - On the Twentieth Century
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
zaneyb3000
Featured Actor Joined: 11/14/04
#21re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 6:04pmWell, 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?
misterchoi
Stand-by Joined: 9/5/04
#22re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 6:19pm
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
#23re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 6:23pm
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#24re: Funny Songs About Death
Posted: 12/13/04 at 6:34pm"All You Have to Do is Wait" from CITY OF ANGELS.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
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