funeral hymn

Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly; “A long time ago” came out like the saddest cadence of a funeral hymn.

He wrote a Southern-flavored track and an organ funeral hymn, knowing that a character dies, but was still basically handing over a batch of what’s known as “library” or stock music.

“It’s a morbid hymn, for funerals. No one plays a funeral hymn loud unless they want to wake the dead.”

He wrote a Southern-flavored track and an organ funeral hymn, knowing that a character dies, but was still basically handing over a batch of what’s known as “library” or stock music.

Then, after a standard Catholic funeral hymn, “I am the Bread of Life,” he welcomed family members by name, expressed sympathies and, after the Scripture readings, offered a homily during which he used words to do what he always seeks to do when he preaches: touch the heart.