Looking for songs about life after death
Kevin
Help! Do you know of any songs that sort of sing about the hereafter or
heaven and such? My repertoire of songs is best up to 1950 or so and then
I'm kind of lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks
Kevin
Anthony B. Gilpin
In the early 1970s, the Righteous Brothers recorded a song called "Rock
'n Roll Heaven,'' which honored a bunch of pop stars who died before
their time. The song speculates on Jimi Hendrix (overdose), Janis Joplin
(overdose), Bobby Darin (expired during surgery), Jim Croce (plane
crash), and Jim Morrison (overdose) jamming together in an afterlife rock
concert.
"If you believe in forever,
Then life is just a one-night stand.
If there's rock 'n roll heaven
Then you know they got a helluva band."
Alene & Gaute
These are all the songs with "heaven" in the title. Perhaps you were
looking for something of a more religious nature?
http://www.lyrics.ch/query/normal?artist=&album=&song=heaven
Chris Gilbert
Kevin wrote:
>Help! Do you know of any songs that sort of sing about the hereafter or
>heaven and such? My repertoire of songs is best up to 1950 or so and then
>I'm kind of lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Wuthering Heights and Watching You Without Me. Both by Kate Bush.
Chris
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Judy...@my-dejanews.com
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Chris....@FFS.Nottingham.ac.uk (Chris Gilbert) wrote:
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> Kevin wrote:
>
> >Help! Do you know of any songs that sort of sing about the hereafter or
> >heaven and such? My repertoire of songs is best up to 1950 or so and then
> >I'm kind of lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
How about "I'll Be There". I forget the artist, but the album was "Dollars
and Sense" (I think). It's the one with the video is shot completely
underwater.
Judy Gale
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Nattlerak
>Help! Do you know of any songs that sort of sing about the hereafter or
>heaven and such? My repertoire of songs is best up to 1950 or so and then
>I'm kind of lost. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
Hi,
There's a wonderful song by the band Kansas on their album "Song For America,"
called "Lamplight Symphony." It's about a man who's dead wife appears to him,
letting him know they'll be together in the afterlife.
Julie Moffitt
(Natt...@aol.com)
singer/songwriter/composer
http://users.nbn.net/~rfirestone/moffitt.htm
Olof Forsberg
In article <6ng380$jbu$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, Judy...@my-dejanews.com says...
>
>How about "I'll Be There". I forget the artist, but the album was "Dollars
>and Sense" (I think). It's the one with the video is shot completely
>underwater.
>
I think you are referring to Escape Club.
Anyway, I would say Don't Cry by Guns'n Roses quite easily falls into this
category.....
missewon
how about the stan ridgeway song
camouflage?
MissE
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Camouflage
I was a PFC on a search patrol huntin' Charlie down
It was in the jungle wars of '65
My weapon jammed and I got stuck way out and all alone
And I could hear the enemy movin' in close outside
Just then I heard a twig snap and i grabbed my empty gun
And I dug in scared while I counted down my fate
And then a big marine, a ginat with a pair of friendly eyes
Appeared there at my shoulder and said wait
When he came in close beside me he said,
"Don't worry, son, I'm here,
If Charlie wants to tangle now he'll have two to dodge."
I said, "Well thanks a lot."
I told him my name and asked him his
And he said, "The boys jsut call me Camouflage."
Whoa Camouflage
Things are never quite the way they seem
Whoa Camoufalge
I was awfully glad to see this big marine
We fought all night and side by side we took our battle stance
and I wondered how the bullets missed this man
'Cause they seemed to go right through him
As if he wasn't there
And in the mornin' we both took a chance and ran
And it was near the river bank when the ambush came on top of us
And I'd thought it ws the end and we were had
Then a bullet with my name on it came buzzin' through a bush
And that big marine he just swat it with his hand
Whoa Camouflage
Things are never quite the way they seem
Whoa Camouflage
Was I awfully glad to see this big marine
And I knew therre was something weird about him
'Cause when I turned around he was pullin' a big palm tree
Rit up out of the ground
And swattin' those Charlies with it from here to Kingdom Come
When he led me out of danger
I saw my camp and waved goodbye
But he just winked at me fromhe jungle and then was gone
And when I got back to my HQ, I told 'em about my night
And the battle I'd spent with a big marine named Camouflage
When I said his name a soldier gulped
And a medic took my arm
And led me to a green tent on the right
He said, "You may be tellin' the truth boy,
But this here is Camouflage,
And he's been right here since he passed away last night."
But before he went he said, "Semper Fi,"
And said his only whish
Was to save a young marine caught in a barrage
So here, take his dog tag son,
I know he'd want you to have it now."
And we both said a prayer for a big marine named Camouflage
Whoa Camouflage
things are never quite the way they seem
Whoa Camouflage
I was awfully glad to see this big marine