A couple that have already been mentioned. In addition to those: "Puff The Magic Dragon."

Another: The Navy Hymn, particularly if sung by a large choir.

Amazing Grace and How Great Thou Art were regulars at nearly every funeral I have attended…I can’t hear either without taking a sad trip down memory lane.

Go Rest High On That Mountain - Vince Gill

"All Of My Memories" by John Denver

Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 4th Movement, "Ode to Joy". Particularly when there is a really killer choir.

"Everything I Own" by Bread

When I was a kid I would play my Dad's old 45 of " Don't take your guns to town" It did the trick

Going Home sung by Libera


Makes me think of our lost family members.

"My Old Man" by the Zac Brown Band. My father passed away 8 years ago and this song resonates with me. I tear up every time I hear it.

“Solsbury Hill” by Peter Gabriel with an orchestra backing him up on Letterman 2011 live with Beethoven’s 9th “Ode to Joy” movement keying in at the end.

Come Thy Fount of Every Blessing

The theme of Saving Private Ryan

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits.
I Lived - OneRepublic.
The Parting Glass - Celtic Woman.

Among many already mentioned and many others not yet mentioned, "In My Life" by the Beatles, 1965, Rubber Soul moves me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1CwJTXUIk

Born in 1940 and '42 Lennon and McCartney wrote some deep lyrics in the early 60s for their respective ages.

They also wrote some popcorn stuff though, but that was expected in that era.

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Amazing Grace on the pipes, because it usually meant we were burying a co-worker.

Butterfly Kisses

Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) by Waylon Jennings. Reminds me of the late 1970s and my mom. She loved it. She's been gone 10 years already.

American Trilogy by Elvis Presley.

And, as stupid as it may seem, The House That Built Me by Miranda Lambert. The lyrics wreck me. I've done what she describes before she even wrote the song. I won't even listen to it anymore.