A friend has been put in charge of finding songs she and some friends
will sing to three other friends who are going away, as part of a
little party they are having to say goodbye. I want to help my friend
gather such songs, thus this question. The more goodbye songs the
better. I will consider this question correctly answered if a list of
ten or more goodbye songs are provided.

Dear wawa734-ga;

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question. I may be from a different ear than you but here are my
suggestions for heartfelt ?goodbye? songs:

A LONG GOODBYE ? Brooks & Dunn
http://lyrics.astraweb.com/displayp.cgi?brooks_dunn..unknown..a_long_goodbye

I?M MOVIN? ON ? Rascal Flatts
http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/rascal-flatts-i-m-movin-on-32w4mv8.html

LEAVING ON A JET PLANE ? John Denver
http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/john-denver-leaving-on-a-jet-plane-v6p9lqf.html

WIND BENEATH MY WINGS ? Bette Midler
http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?id=7797

GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD ? Elton John
http://www.eltonography.com/songs/goodbye_yellow_brick_road.html

LEAVING?S NOT LEAVING ? Leanne Rimes
http://www.lyricsdomain.com/12/leann_rimes/leavings_not_leaving.html

BLUER THAN BLUE ? Michael Johnson
http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/michael-johnson-bluer-than-blue-d3mdrcc.html

COOL CHANGE ? The Little River Band
http://www.letssingit.com/?http://www.letssingit.com/little-river-band-cool-change-chkpswx.html

LOVE WILL KEEP US ALIVE ? The Eagles
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/eagles/lovewillkeepusalive.html

TEARS IN HEAVEN ? Eric Clapton
http://www.lyricsstyle.com/e/ericclapton/tearsinheaven.html

TIME IN A BOTTLE ? Jim Croce
http://oddones.org/music/time_in_a_bottle.lyrics.html



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Thank you so much, Tutuzdad. A job well done. You are a dandy researcher!
And thanks also to pinkfreud and daytrader76 for your comments. I love
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GOODBYE for now.

What a great answer!

Let me add one of my favorites, from "The Sound of Music":

http://www.mcskins.com/music/s/solong.html

"Jet Airliner" by Steve Miller
"I've Been Everywhere" by Johnny Cash
"Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffett

'Goodbye'

from 'The White Horse Inn'.

A stirring anthem of yesteryear.

GOODBYE (from The White Horse Inn)
Words and music by: Ralph Benatsky

My heart is broken, but what care I? Such pride inside me has woken,
I shall do my best not to cry, by and by,
When the final farewells must be spoken.
I'll join the legion, that's what I'll do, and in some far distant region,
Where human hearts are staunch and true; I shall start my life anew. 

Goodbye, it's time I sought a foreign clime,
Where I may find there are hearts more kind than I leave behind.
And so I go to fight the savage foe,
Although I know that I'll be sometimes missed by the girls I've kissed.


In some Abyssinian, French dominion I shall do my bit,
And fall for the flag if I must.
Where the desert sand is nice and handy, I 'll be full of grit,
You won't see my heels for the dust.


I'll do or die, or know the reason why when told,
Of boldly opposed last stands for the fatherland.


Goodbye. Goodbye. I wish you all a last "Goodbye".
Goodbye. Goodbye. I wish you all a last "Goodbye".

For a more quirky song, try Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's Goodbye song.
This is the shortened version.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/greetings/card2.shtml

answerfinder-ga

Found the words:

Now is the time to say Goodbye
Now is the time to yield a sigh (yield it, yield it)
Now is the time to wend our waaaayeeeeee
Until we meet again
Some sunny day.

Goodbye
Goodbye
We're leaving now, 
Tattybye
Goodbye
We wish you all goodbye
Fartatata, fartatata..

And, depending on how well you know them and their sense of humor,
there is always "Hit the Road, Jack" by Ray Charles!!!!

"Hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more!"

Goodbye, Night Ranger
Time for me to Fly, Reo Speedwagon

1.  Midnight Train to Georgia/Gladys Knight and the Pips
All aboard, all aboard, all aboard 
On the midnight train to Georgia
I got to go I got to go I got to go

2.  Goodbye Cruel World/Roger Waters

Goodbye cruel world,
I'm leaving you today.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.
Goodbye, all you people, 
There's nothing you can say
To make me change my mind.
Goodbye.

3.  Goodbye Cruel World/James Darren version

(Goodbye cruel world) 
(Goodbye cruel world) 

Oh, goodbye cruel world, I'm off to join the circus 
Gonna be a broken-hearted clown 
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin' smile 
'cause a mean, fickle woman turned my whole world upside down 

(Goodbye cruel world) 

4.  I Gave My Love a Candle/Bonnie Raitt {sad, but truly great song}

Your love was like a diamond ride a wave 
on a sea that calms my mind 
Moving onward to a distant shore 
Where the boats sail in a line
We have danced to a fateful rhyme
Moving down the same lonesome road
No I don't know why
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

5.  Bye, Bye Love/Everly Bros.

Bye bye, love.
Bye bye, sweet caress.
Hello, emptiness.
I feel like I could di-ie.
Bye bye, my love, goodby-ye.
Bye bye, my love, goodby-ye.
Bye bye, my love, goodby-ye. 

6.  Goodbye, Goodbye/Oingo Boingo

Oh, I know something 
About the ways of loving 
And I tell you, baby, 
I think something's wrong 
Look to the sky above and the mud below 
Something drives me crazy, got to got to get away 
I need fuel - but - not the kind you give me
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye 
Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye! 

Goodbye, goodbye!
Goodbye, goodbye!
(etc)

7.  Never Say Goodbye/Bob Dylan

You're beautiful beyond words
You're beautiful to me
You can make me cry
Never say goodbye.

Time is all I have to give
You can have it if you choose
With me you can live
Never say goodbye.

8.  Hello Goodbye/The Beatles

I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don't know, oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello
(Hello Goodbye Hello Goodbye) hello hello
(Hello Goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
(Hello Goodbye Hello Goodbye) hello hello
(Hello Goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye
(Hello Goodbye) I say hello

Why why why why why why do you say goodbye goodbye, oh no?

9.  Goodbye Baby, Baby Goodbye/Solomon Burke

Look out, what you see ?
I see a train a-coming,
A train a-coming down the long lonesome track.
I'll tell you, girl, I gotta go on home now,
But deep down in your heart
You know that someday I'm, I'm coming back
And I'm gonna look for you at your party,
'Cause all the time I know that I'll find you there
And listen, I'm gonna dance with you
One more time, oh yeah.
Sing it to me tonight now
Goodbye baby, sing it sweet baby goodbye.

Lord, you're singing so sweet tonight Goodbye baby
Goodbye baby baby baby baby goodbye
I'll see you around sometime, Lord Goodbye baby... 

10.  Madame George/Van Morrison

Say goodbye goodbye goodbye goodbye to Madame George
Dry your eye for Madame George
Wonder why for Madame George
The love's to love the love's to love the love's to love...
Say goodbye, goodbye
Get on the train 
Get on the train, the train, the train...
This is the train, this is the train...
Whoa, say goodbye, goodbye....
Get on the train, get on the train... 

11.  Never Can Say Goodbye/Gloria Gaynor

I can?t do with you or without or you?ve had with you all your life
Tell me why is it so? I don?t wanna let you go
I never can say goodbye boy, ooh baby
I never can say goodbye, no no no no no no
Hey I never can say goodbye boy,ooh baby
I never can say goodbye, no no no no no no

12.  Bye, Bye Baby, Bye Bye/The Monkees

Bye bye, baby, bye bye
Don't want to make you cry
Bye bye, baby, bye bye
Don't want to make you cry
I'll be leaving you now
You'll get along somehow
Time time is gone when you and I were strong
Time time is gone when you and I were strong
Isn't easy to leave, isn't easy to leave

13.  Bye Bye, Baby, Goodbye/Four Seasons

(Spoken) If you hate me after what I say
Can't put it off any longer
I just gotta tell you anyway

(Sung)
Bye Bye Baby Goodbye
Bye Bye Baby don't make me cry

14.  There Goes My Baby/Trisha Yearwood

Like the sun falling out of the clear, blue sky
There goes my baby
And it's gonna be a cold, dark night
Now that I finally see
How I need him to be
Right here by my side
There goes my baby
Bye, bye, Baby, goodbye
Bye, bye, Baby, goodbye
Bye, bye, Baby, goodbye!

15.  Goodbye/Mary Hopkin

Please don't wake me until late tomorrow comes,
And I will not be late.
Late today when it becomes tomorrow.
I will leave to go away.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my love goodbye.
Songs that lingered on my lips excite me now
And linger on my mind.
Leave your flowers at my door
I'll leave them for the one who waits behind.
Far away my lover sings a lonely song
And calls me to his side.
When the song of lonely love
Invites me on I must go to his side.
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye my love goodbye.

16.  Before the Goodbye/Britney Spears

You're leaving
I'm waiting
Forgive me
I'm always missing you
Before the goodbye 

17.  Louie, Louie/The Kingsmen

Ah, Louie, Louie
Oh, no, sayin' me gotta go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
But, ah, Louie, Louie
Oh, baby, said, ah, we gotta go.

I said we gotta go now,

Let's get on outta here.

[Yelled] Let's go.

18.  Candle in the Wind {Goodbye, Norma Jean} / Elton John

Goodbye, Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

19.  Runaway/Del Shannon

I'm walking in the rain
Tears are falling and I feel the pain
Wishing you were here by me
To end this misery and I wonder
I won-won-won-won wonder
Why why why why why why she ran away
And I wonder where she will stay
My little runaway run-run-run-run runaway
Run run run run runaway.....

20.  The Load Out {Stay} / Jackson Browne

Oh, won't you stay just a little bit longer
Oh, please, please stay just a little bit more, ehehe
Now if the promoter don't mind and the roadies don't mind
We can take a little time and we'll leave it all behind
Singin' one more song

21.  Baby, Please Don't Go/Paul Butterfield Blues Band {a personal favorite}

Baby please don't go 
Oh, baby please don't go 
Oh, baby please don't go 
Oh, baby please don't go back to New Orleans, 
honey, I love you so 
Baby please don't go you know I love you so 

Baa-bye,
* V *

NOBODY has mentioned:

'Every Time We Say Goodbye'

By Ella.

So there!

Everytime we say goodbye 
I die a little 
Everytime we say goodbye 
I wonder why a little
Why the gods above me 
Who must be in the know 
Think so little of me
They allow you to go 

When you're near 
There's such an air 
Of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere
Begin to sing about it 
There's no love song finer 
But how strange the change
From major to minor 
Everytime we say goodbye 

There's no love song finer 
But how strange the change 
From major to minor 
Everytime we say goodbye

You can also click on "song" in this link and enter "goodbye,"
"leaving," "bye bye," "so long," "gotta go," etc. and find a bunch
more.
http://www.lyrics-of-songs.net/index.htm

Here is one that's been a favorite of mine for, yikes, nearly 40 years.

Tom Paxton composed and recorded it in the sixties (album:  "Outward
Bound," 1966).  It has a very simple but memorable melody, easily
accompanied on guitar with just your three basic chords.  It is also
easy to harmonize with.

Carolyn Hester also recorded this in the sixties, and changed the
lyrics a little--a practice I generally don't care for, but in this
case I think I like them better.  She sang "May you find..." and
"Remember when the wine was better than ever again" and "Things we've
learned."  That line about "things we've learned" spoke to me deeply
when I was not yet twenty and thought I'd seen a lot.  Now, indeed,
now...

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OUTWARD BOUND
(Tom Paxton)

Outward bound, upon a ship that sails no ocean
Outward bound, it has no crew but me and you
All alone when just a minute ago the shore was filled with people
With people that we knew

  (Refrain after each verse)
  So farewell, adieu, so long, vaya con Dios
  May they find whatever they are lookin for
  Remember when the wine was better than ever before
  We could not ask, we could not ask for more

Outward bound upon a journey without ending
Outward bound with uncharted waters beneath our bow
For behind, the green familiar shore is fading into time
And time has left us now

Outward bound, upon a ship with tattered sail
Outward bound upon a crooked lonesome trail
Things we learn, we'll just be satisfied in knowing
And we'll tell it to our kids as a fairy tale


Recorded by Tom Paxton
Copyright Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co., Inc.

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Archae0pteryx

Hi,    if you look in " letssingit.com " go to lyrics, and type in
perhaps " to say goodbye '  and you get stacks of songs.   Hope this
helps. That web site and many others can be found on   "   
www.yesmelbourne.com   "

Auf Wiedersehen

Goodbye My Bluebell

Goodbye Dolly I Must Leave You

Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye

Goodbye-ee Wipe the Tear from Your Eye-ee

Bit of a different genre into the mix for you:

"Time to Go" by Supergrass http://www.supergrass.tv/songs/TIMETOGO.php
"Take a Bow" by Madonna http://madonna.lyrics-songs.com/lyrics/63189/

Both quite slow songs but rather groovy :)

amberene

this has been really helpful for me too... I'm in my last year at high
school and on the last day we all sing a song... most commonly "Good
Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" by Greenplay (always gets me crying) but
my friends and I are looking for something new.

Some of us have been at school together since we were 5 (my school
goes from year 1-13) so we wanted something special...