funeral hymn
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Mr. Opala then located the Gullah singer’s daughter, who knew the song, and flew her to Africa, where she and a Mende woman singing the funeral hymn joined in a duet.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2010
In the 1990s, an anthropologist named Joseph Opala associated a song sung by a Gullah woman on a 1932 Turner recording with a Mende funeral hymn performed by women in Sierra Leone.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2010
A funeral hymn made its way around the church tediously but successfully.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
“It’s a morbid hymn, for funerals. No one plays a funeral hymn loud unless they want to wake the dead.”
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
