About the Song
Si sent us this song after we sent out a newsletter on songs of comfort and hope for the dying and their families, writing "Here’s my song 'Memorial,' which I wrote many, many years ago at the request of a friend who was dying much too young, who wanted me to write it and then sing it at his funeral, which of course I did."
We come today to say goodbye to one who has held us close,
To tell the stories of his life that move us each the most.
These memories of a life well lived and of a death well faced,
Are now a part of every life that crosses in this place
No circle has been broken here, no one that stands alone.
The threads of life, so lately broke, are woven through our own.
He'd hoped to meet us all again that gather here today,
But though we will not meet again, we'll meet again some way.
In work we do, in songs we sing, in courage and in pain,
In battles that we fight as one, we'll see his face again.
- lyrics & music by Si Kahn
(c) 1984 Joe Hill Music, ASCAP. All rights reserved. Used by permisson.
Si recorded this song on his 1984 "Unfinished Portraits" LP on Flying Fish.