DR Elmore -- is the requiem something you're actually composing?
Partly, but it's all based on Appalachian folksongs and hymns. Several items in the piece are set and some are still in flux, determined by what I can find. The hardest part is finding something funny about death.
The layout is something like this:
1. Lonesome Valley - Chorus
2. The Unquiet Grave - Solo, Chorus
3. Something funny?
4. Murder ballad? - Solo and chorus
5. Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger - Solo, Chorus
Other options:
I am a Poor pilgrim of Sorrow
Conversation with Death
Kingdom Come
Amazing Grace
If I can't find something funny, I may take the text for "Conversation with Death" and write my own melody. I don't much like the ones I have, but i like the text.