Funny Songs About Death- Page 2

Posted: 12/13/04 at 7:00pm

You Gotta Die Sometime -- Falsettos

Posted: 12/14/04 at 8:53pm

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life- Monty Python

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

[rockfenris2005]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 9:06pm

He was my master
He was my lord
Now ever after
He's stiffer than a board
Death is such an odd thing
Death is such an odd thing

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 9:23pm

"Requiem for Evita"
"lament"

[DestinyBeckoned]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 9:42pm

"just one step" from songs for a new world is about suicide, and its kind of funny.

[magruder]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 9:54pm

"I Would Die" from Take Me Along

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 9:58pm

"To Keep My Love Alive" - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

"Sir _ had imsonia/he couldn't sleep at night.
I bought a little arsenic/he's sleeping now alright."

"Sir _ was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why/
I tossed him off my balcony to see if he could Fly"

[magruder]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 10:02pm

Now there's a song that's always worth quoting...


I've been married, and married, and often I've sighed
"I'm never a bridesmaid, I'm always a bride"

I never divorced them, I hadn't the heart
Yet remember these sweet words, "`till death do us part"

I married many men, a ton of them
Because I was untrue to none of them
Because I bumped off every one of them
To keep my love alive

Sir Paul was frail, he looked a wreck to me
At night he was a horse's neck to me
So I performed an appendectomy
To keep my love alive

Sir Thomas had insomnia, he couldn't sleep at night
I bought a little arsenic, he's sleeping now all right

Sir Philip played the harp, I cussed the thing
I crowned him with his harp to bust the thing
And now he plays where harps are just the thing
To keep my love alive
To keep my love alive

I thought Sir George had possibilities
But his flirtations made me ill at ease
And when I'm ill at ease, I kill at ease
To keep my love alive

Sir Charles came from a sanitorium
And yelled for drinks in my emporium
I mixed one drink, he's in memorium
To keep my love alive

Sir Francis was a singing bird, a nightingale, that's why
I tossed him off my balcony, to see if he, could fly

Sir Atherton indulged in fratricide,
He killed his dad and that was patricide
One night I stabbed him by my mattress-side
To keep my love alive
To keep my love alive
To keep my love alive

[rmposey]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 1:44pm

Isn't there a song, something like, "Sad was the day when he laid down and died"? Don't know who wrote it or anything but it was funny. I think Marin Mazzie sang it at Sondheim's birthday celebration a few years ago. Perhaps I'm wrong.

[Necromancer07707]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 5:41pm

Rick Abbot's SING ON! features a few funny songa about death to the tune of Foster songs.

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 5:45pm

Another Rodgers and Hart ditty:

WHAT A LOVELY DAY FOR A MURDER.

[Craig]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 5:51pm

If You're Gonna Go Out, Go Out Big

Sung by Jack Weston in One Night Stand

[Cellarmaster]

Posted: 2/17/25 at 12:33pm

bythesword84 said: ""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 "Feed Me (Git It)" from Little Shop

[George in DC]

Posted: 2/17/25 at 1:39pm

"That's Your Funeral"  from Oliver

[Ensemble1726647996]

Posted: 2/17/25 at 6:59pm

Beetlejuice has some of the greatest songs about death ever written.  Two of those songs are:

The Whole being Dead Thing and What I know Now.

I also love Dead Mom.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 2/17/25 at 11:45pm

"Sung by Jack Weston in One Night Stand"

How on earth did you hear that one, Craig? It never even opened.

Never Give Up Hope as song about suicide from Groundhog Day.