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John Newton, 1778 According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, "Amazing Grace" is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse. In 1725, Newton was born in Wapping, a district in London near the Thames. His father was a shipping merchant who was brought up as a Catholic but had Protestant sympathies, and his mother was a devout Independent, unaffiliated with the Anglican Church. She ...
A jazz funeral is a funeral procession accompanied by a brass band, in the tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana. Drummers at the funeral of jazz musician Danny Barker in 1994. They include Louis Cottrell, (great-grandson of New Orleans' innovative drumming pioneer, Louis Cottrell, Sr. and grandson of New Orleans clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr ...
Gus Dudgeon. " Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding " is a medley of two songs written by English musician Elton John and songwriter Bernie Taupin, and performed by John. It is the opening track of the 1973 double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The first part, "Funeral for a Friend", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of ...
Fans of the Statler Brothers may remember some of the group's biggest hits including "Elvira" and "Flowers on the Wall." The band also released this poignant 1988 song about a mother who yearns ...
A reworked version of the song, intended as a funeral hymn, was written by A. P. Carter and released in 1935 by the Carter Family. The Carter version, titled " Can the Circle be Unbroken ", uses the same music and the same verse structure but with different verse lyrics and a modified chorus.
The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England. " Do not stand by my grave and weep " is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem " Immortality ", presumably written by Clare Harner in 1934. Often now used is a slight variant: "Do not stand at my grave and weep".