Saddest love songs ever; crying definitely allowed!

[blondeatlast]

1. You're Still a Young Man; Tower of Power
*my husband was, ahem, not yet 21 when I met him, I'm 12 years older

2. Hello, It's Me; Todd Rundgren

3. Without You (I like the Nilsson version best--sorry)

4. When She Loved Me; Sarah McLachlan/Randy Newman; from Toy Story 2; I KNOW I'm not the only one who blubbers at this, I saw it in the theater!

Your picks?

[trigz]

1. Everything by Tom Waits, more or less... (n/t)

[populistmom]

2. No you are not the only one who blubbers at that one

Toy Story 2 used to be an obsession in my house 3 years ago and I'd cry almost every damn time I heard that song. :cry:

Sarah

[Drifter]

3. Frank Zappa ...

Broken Hearts are for Assholes.

Sorry, couldn't resist.


On a different note about "Love" songs"
Frank Zappa explaining why it is dumb to think that music lyrics are responsible for violence. He says that most songs (an exaggerated 95%) are about love. If music was actually influencing behaviour, then everyone would be in love with each other. This is definitely not happening.

Cheer
Drifter

[blondeatlast]

8. I remember that quote--I laughed hysterically the first time

I heard it. He was wiser than he ever got credit for being. I am a fan, too.

[david_vincent]

4. That's a tough one

maybe I'll Be Seeing You?

[Missy Vixen]

48. I'll Be Seeing You

>maybe I'll Be Seeing You?<

I played Tony Bennett's version of this song at our wedding for my parents, who have been gone for many years now.

It's such a sad, but beautiful song.

Julie

[YellowRubberDuckie]

74. That song always makes me cry....

It makes me think of an old widower walking around the city where he spent his life with the woman of his dream. I imagine she's died recently...
I'll Be Seeing You
Written By: Kahal/Fain/Kahal/Fain
I'll be seeing you;
In all the old, familiar places;
That this heart of mine embraces;
All day through.

In that small cafe;
The park across the way;
The children's carousel;
The chestnut tree;
The wishing well

I'll be seeing you;
In every lovely, summer's day;
And everything that's bright and gay;
I'll always think of you that way;
I'll find you in the morning sun;
And when the night is new;
I'll be looking at the moon;
But i'll be seeing you.

[mac56]

5. "It Makes No Difference" by The Band.

Runner up: "Alison" by Elvis Costello.

[blondeatlast]

9. "Allison." Good pick.

[quispquake]

6. Chris Isaak "Wicked Games"

Was going thru a breakup when this one came out, and it still freaks me out hearing it...

pp23

[Sick of Bullshit]

7. Without You and Yesterday

Funniest love song: U Stink But I Luv U (by "Billy and the Boingers", or whoever really won that Bloom County song contest)

[blondeatlast]

10. Every Time We Say Goodbye--Cole Porter

I heard a version by Blillie Holliday once and have been trying to find it ever since. Damn, it was killer.

[bif]

11. "Shine" by David Gray

Also Mona Lisa" by Guster. And most of the album "Astral Weeks" by Van Morrison.

[Bossy Monkey]

12. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, by Richard Thompson

I am assured that the Del McCoury version is equally tearjerking, but haven't actually heard it.

Lyricage here: http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/vincentb.htm

[mac56]

18. Great song.

"Walking On A Wire" by Richard and Linda is tearjerking too.

[dbt]

13. "Back On The Chain Gang" by The Pretenders

The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When I see what they've done to you

I found a picture of you,
Those were the happiest days of my life
Like a break in the battle was your part,
In the wretched life of a lonely heart

And it ain't helping things any that Chrissie Hynde has the lonesome-est voice I ever heard. When she sings that last line, it reduces me to tears every damn time!

:cry:
dbt

[blondeatlast]

34. You do know she wrote that about the death of James Honeyman Scott,

the first Pretenders guitarist? When you know that, it REALLY tears you up inside.

I love the Pretenders, always have, and that song just gets me right here.

[dbt]

63. Thank you, blondeatlast

I knew the song must have come from some especially private hell because it shoots me through the heart every time I hear it.

Chrissie rules!
:hi:
dbt

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Don't poke fun...but..."Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough (sp)

Friends and family play it at parties just to laugh at MrsGrumpy crying. And it's just plain mean.

[mac56]

16. From Dave Barry (paraphrase):

In "Honey", when Bobby Goldsboro sings about how "the angels came", it makes more sense to assume he's talking about The Hell's Angels.

[Wickerman]

30. see the tree, how big its grown

always gets me...

[2bfree]

36. See the tree, how big it grows.........

I love that song! I know that makes me a sap. My youngest cried one time when he heard it (about 8 at the time) when I asked him what was wrong he said, Mom, why do they makes songs so sad. That made me cry as well.

[ScreamingMeemie]

77. My son used to cry listening to it at two...It's just a horribly sad

song. He refuses now, at five, to let me play it.

[TOhioLiberal]

94. Honey....

...can't stand that song! I won't allow my hubby to play it...'course he gets back at me by playing my number 2 song...'Tell Laura I Love Her' :puke:
Trekkerlass

[TravisBickle]

15. Meat Loaf

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

I want you
I need you
But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you
Cause two out of three ain't bad

[Gringo]

17. If You Don't Know Me By Now - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

And the Simply Red Version even more so.

The lyrics aren't that sad, but the melody makes me wanna weep.

[blondeatlast]

35. Props to the HM & BN version, Simply Red did it with virtually no

changes, so it's good, just not original.

[felonious thunk]

19. "Lost Cause" Beck

or really anything of Sea Change

[RandomKoolzip]

20. "Jealous Guy" by John Lennon.

I knew a girl who converted to lesbianism because she hated men so much. She was a songwriter and a musician, and I played drums for her. We'd often talk about music. She told me the only time she ever heard a man sing about love and sound believeable and sincere was on this song.


Okay, and here's few more:

1. "My Aim is True," the first album by Elvis COstello. If you've just been rejected or going through a breakup, you need this album.

2. "It's Different for Girls," Joe Jackson. Possibly the greatest lyrics this guy ever wrote.

3."Emmaline," Ben Folds Five. Simply the most heartbreaking performance these heroes of mine ever manged. See also "Twin Falls," "Lullaby," "Mess," etc. Ben Folds is the most underrated songwriter of his generation.

[woofless]

21. Hall and Oates

"She's Gone" ......ditto to "It Makes No Difference".......that one rips me!

[latebloomer]

22. "You're Missing" by Springsteen

inspired by the words of a WTC widow.

Desolate.

[KoKo]

23. "Memories" by Elvis and "The Way We Were" by Streisand

and "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" Ray Charles (probably not correct title)

[Jim Sagle]

24. One Less Bell to Answer - The Fifth Dimension

[Mikimouse]

25. Three Times a Lady

nm

[arwalden]

60. Also... "Free Times A Maydee"

[SiobhanClancy]

26. Van Morrison's rendition of "Carrickfergus"

heartbreaking...makes me cry every time.

[greatauntoftriplets]

42. I agree Siobhan, and here are the lyrics.

I wished I had you in carrickfergus,
Only for nights in ballygrand,
I would swim over the deepest ocean,
The deepest ocean to be by your side.

But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over
And neither have I wings to fly.
I wish I could find me a handy boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die.

My childhood days bring back sad reflections
Of happy days so long ago.
My boyhood friends and my own relations.
Have all passed on like the melting snow.

So I’ll spend my days in endless roving,
Soft is the grass and my bed is free.
Oh to be home now in carrickfergus,
On the long road down to the salty sea.

And in kilkenny it is reported
On marble stone there as black as ink,
With gold and silver I did support her
But I’ll sing no more now till I get a drink.

I’m drunk today and I’m rarely sober,
A handsome rover from town to town.
Oh but I am sick now and my days are numbered
Come all ye young men and lay me down.

[SiobhanClancy]

46. Thanks,GAOT:)

I knew you were a kindred spirit:)

[kmla]

27. All of my Heart - ABC.... from the LP "Lexicon of Love."

There isn't a better song to listen to when you've had your heart cut out with a rusty spoon. Lyrics below...

Once upon a time when we were friends
I gave you my heart. The story ends
No happy ever after, now were friends

Wish upon a star if that might help
The stars collide if you decide
Wish upon a star if that might help

What's it like to have loved and to lose her touch?
What's it like to have loved and to lose that much?

Well I hope and I pray
That maybe someday
You'll walk in the room with my heart
Add and subtract
But as a matter of fact
Now that you're gone I still want you back
Remembering
Surrendering
Remembering that part
All of my heart

Spilling up pink silk and coffee lace
You hook me up, I rendevouz at your place
Your lipstick and your lip gloss seals my fate

Sentimental powers might help you now
But skip the hearts and flowers, skip the ivory towers
You'll be disappointed and I'll lose a friend

No I won't be told there's a crock of gold At the end of the rainbow
Or that pleasure and pain, sunshine and rain
Might make this love grow

But I hope and I pray
That maybe someday
You'll walk in the room with my heart
Add and subtract
But as a matter of fact
Now that you're gone I still want you back
Remembering
Surrendering
The kindest cut's the cruellest part
All of my heart

Yes I hope and I pray
That maybe someday
You'll walk in the room with my heart
And I shrug and I say
That maybe today
You'll come home soon
Remembering
Surrendering
Surrendering that part - All of my heart

[Iris]

28. "Beth" by Kiss

[It was not a pretzel]

29. Script for a Jester's Tear

by Marillion

[maxanne]

31. Morphine

Gone For Good

I'm never going back never going back to you
I'm never going to see you again
I'm never going to dig out your picture
I'm never going to look you up someday
Life is very short
You don't love me anymore
So I'm never going to see you again
I'm never going to write you a letter
Never going to call you on the phone
I'm never going to drive by your house
I'm never going to catch you coming outside
Never going to walk up your walk
And ring your bell
And feel you fall into my arms
I'm never going to see you (x2)
I'm never going to see you again
You're gone for good

This is very unlike their other stuff. It's acoustic - no horns. Just terribly terribly sad.

[Richardo]

32. "Deeper than Crying" by AK+US

from the "So Long, So Wrong" album.

Leaving is the longest word I ever learned
In the time it takes to say it, the whole world has turned
If a heartbeat lasts a lifetime then I've lived before
`cause I remember standing at this open door

Chorus:
This path is not the one I'd choose to travel
Even as we watch what tied us unravel
And the tears fall like rain
Deeper than crying, the loving still remains

Neither wants to be the one to say goodbye
And neither wants to be the one who's left to cry
But in our secret heart of hearts we both know
That the time for patching up has passed and it's time to go

<Chorus>

So I'll be the one to pull our tangled lives apart
I won't dodge the angry words that hide a broken heart
And my calm fare-thee-wells cannot obscure
That deep inside, my heart is also hurtin' so

<Chorus>

:cry:

[Skittles]

33. You Were Always On My Mind

Willie Nelson

[ScreamingMeemie]

79. You are so right on this one too. Also "Angel Flying too Close to

the Ground. Sniffle...

[WillParkinson]

37. I've got 2 that used to make me cry...

Teen Angel by Mark Dinning and one by Dickie Lee...I don't know the name of it but it starts out as, "Last night at the dance I met Laurie, so lovely and warm an angel of a girl, last night I fell in love with Laurie...strange things happen in this world..."

[lynndew2]

44. WOW Will, I thought I was the only person in the world

that ever heard the Laurie song. Me and my bro still sing it to this day. Great song!!!

[WillParkinson]

62. Nope!

I love that song...

[Dogmudgeon]

57. That song you don't know the name of

Laurie (Strange Things Happen)

One of the creepiest songs ever written.

--bkl

[Gato Moteado]

70. isn't that the one where he picks up the ghost of a girl...

...that died the previous year? i think that song was based on a popular urban legend.

[WillParkinson]

73. That's the one...

"As I walked her home, she said it was her birthday...I pulled her close and said, "Will I see you anymore?" then suddenly she asked for my sweater...and said that she was very very cold...

I kissed her goodnight at her door and started home, then thought about my sweater and went right back instead, I knocked at her door and a man appeared, I told him why I'd come then he said, "You're wrong son, you weren't with my daughter...how can you be so cruel, to come to me this way? My Laurie left this world on her birthday, she died a year ago today..."

Some strange force drew me to the graveyard...I stood in the (can't understand that word) I saw the shadows wave and then I looked and saw my sweater...lying there upon her grave.

(Yes, it was done from memory.)

[SubliminAL MessaGOREs]

38. My picks

Silent World, Donna Lewis
Two Beds and a Coffee Machine, Savage Garden

[Insider]

39. stevie wonder: rocket love

--snip--
The passion burning in your heart
Would make hell's fire seem like a spark
Where did it go

Just why that you would overnight
Turn love to stone as cold as ice
I'll never know

But you took me riding in your rocket gave me a star
But at a half a mile from heaven you dropped me back
down to this cold, cold world
Baby you took me riding in your rocket gave me a star
But at a half a mile from heaven you dropped me back
down to this cold, cold world
--snip--

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/stevie-wonder/rocket-love.html

[HPLeft]

40. I'm a Fool to Want You

Don't remember who wrote it, but the Sinatra recording of "I'm a Fool to Want You" on "Where Are You" (conducted and orchestrated by Gordon Jenkins) is IMHO definitive.

Since I'm on Sinatra, I guess "Angel Eyes" would fit in here as well.

[Dirk39]

41. Love will tear us apart, Joy Division...

nothing compares to that:


"When routine bites hard
and ambitions are low.
And resentment rides high
but emotions won't grow.
And we're changing our ways
taking different roads.

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Why is the bedroom so cold
turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed
our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
that we've kept through our lives.

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.

Do you cry out in your sleep,
all my failings expose
And there's a taste in my mouth
as desperation takes hold.
Just that something so good
just can't function no more, when

Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again.
Love, love will tear us apart again..."

Hello from Germany, Anti-platonic:
Dirk

[Cheswick2.0]

43. How Could I ever know, from Secret Garden

If you like theatre at all and don't know this one, get the CD. It is such a beautiful show. The following is a duet between a man and his wifes ghost.





How Could I Ever Know:

LILY:
HOW COULD I KNOW I WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE YOU
HOW COULD I KNOW I WOULD HURT YOU SO
YOU WERE THE ONE I WAS BORN TO LOVE
OH, HOW COULD I EVER KNOW
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW

HOW CAN I SAY TO GO ON WITHOUT ME
HOW WHEN I KNOW YOU STILL NEED ME SO
HOW CAN I SAY NOT TO DREAM ABOUT ME
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW

FORGIVE ME
CAN YOU FORGIVE ME
AND HOLD ME IN YOUR HEART
AND FIND SOME NEW WAY TO LOVE ME
NOW THAT WE'RE APART

HOW COULD I KNOW I WOULD NEVER HOLD YOU
NEVER AGAIN IN THIS WORLD
BUT OH, SURE AS YOU BREATHE
I AM THERE INSIDE YOU
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW

ARCHIBALD:
HOW CAN I HOPE TO GO WITHOUT YOU
HOW CAN I KNOW WHERE YOU'D HAVE ME GO
HOW CAN I BEAR NOT TO DREAM ABOUT YOU
HOW CAN I LET YOU GO

LILY:
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW

ARCHIBALD:
ALL I NEED IS

LILY:
IS THERE IN THE GARDEN

ARCHIBALD:
ALL I WOULD ASK IS

LILY:
IS CARE FOR THE CHILD OF

ARCHIBALD:
OUR LOVE

LILY:
COME, GO WITH ME
SAFE I WILL KEEP YOU

ARCHIBALD:
WHERE YOU WOULD LEAD ME
THERE I WOULD

LILY:
THERE I WOULD, THERE WE WOULD

LILY AND ARCHIBALD:
THERE WE WILL GO
HOW, HOW COULD I KNOW
TELL ME, HOW, HOW COULD I KNOW
EVER TO KNOW YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE ME
HOW COULD WE EVER KNOW
HOW COULD I EVER KNOW

[kodi]

45. diamonds and rust. joan baez

and fountain of sorrow. jackson brown

[Tikki]

47. 'St. James Infirmary'.....

...Traditional Folksong..(also known as 'The Gambler's Blues').

We find the Bobby 'Blue' Bland version.....sadly chilling.

The Tikkis

[RetroLounge]

49. "Precious and Few" by Climax

Sappy 70's shitty-ass song that tore my heart out when my first lover dumped me...

anything by Bread, after my next girlfriend dumped me...

Wonderful Tonight - Clapton. Oh, a few different relationships got this one associated with them.

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, Soft Cell - 80's era break-up...

Terrible Lie - 9" Nails - Actually, that whole CD - my Divorce...

Needless to say, I stay away from love songs now, and I'm happily married 7 years next week.

[Kenneth ken]

50. Joni Mitchell

Little Green - what is sadder than a song about a mother giving up for adoption the baby she loves? (based on a tue story, in case you didn't know.)

LITTLE GREEN

Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she will answer to
Call her green and the winters cannot fade her
Call her green for the children who've made her
Little green, be a gypsy dancer

He went to California
Hearing that everything's warmer there
So you write him a letter and say, "Her eyes are blue."
He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
Little green, he's a non-conformer

CH0RUS:

Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the Northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow

Child with a child pretending
Weary of lies you are sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry, but you're not ashamed
Little green, have a happy ending

CHORUS:

Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the nights when the Northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes
And sometimes there'll be sorrow

[MissMillie]

86. Alison Krauss...

and Union Station: New Favorite

[indigo32]

51. "Where've you been"

by Kathy Mattea

[Sufi Marmot]

52. "When ye go away" - the Waterboys

...from Fisherman's Blues.

-SM

[dbt]

65. Right ON, SM!

Good to see another Waterboys fan. Somehow, "And A Bang On The Ear" makes me deliciously sad.

"Here's to the great Gaels of Ireland,
The men that the gods made mad;
For all of their wars are merry
And all of their songs are sad." --unknown 17th Century wag

:bounce:
dbt

[mykpart]

53. It's really corny I know

but I cry whenever I hear "Somewhere Out There" from "An American Tail."

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight
Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.
Somewhere out there, someone's saying a prayer
We'll find one another in the great somewhere out there.

Even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to know we might be wishing on the same bright star.
And when the nightwind starts to sing its lonesome lullaby
It helps to know we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Somewhere out there, if love can see us through
Then we'll be together, somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true!

[blondeatlast]

81. \don't feel alone; so do I.

And Linda Ronstadt sounds so plaintive on that one. I always thought she was underrated.

[anti_shrub]

54. Gotta give it up for the Chairman

and One More for the Road....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

55. Jean Val Jean's prayer in Les Mis

[chefgirl]

56. Good Morning Heartache....Billie Holliday

Open Door....Genesis

-chef-

[Dogmudgeon]

58. Gloomy Sunday

The so-called "Suicide Anthem".

Beautiful, and it could drive anyone to madness. The translation by Sam Lewis is one of the best translations ever done for a song, IMO.

Covered at least twenty times by such musicians as Billie Holliday, Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor, Heather Nova, and Diamania Galas.

Here it is. "Enjoy!"


Gloomy Sunday
(Rezsô Seress)
(Translation by Sam M. Lewis)

Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless
Little white flowers will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday, with shadows I spend it all
My heart and I have decided to end it all
Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep, let them know that I'm glad to go
Death is no dream for in death I'm caressing you
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you

Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here

Darling I hope that my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you how much I wanted you

Gloomy Sunday


--bkl

[scarlet_owl]

64. Oooh. Good Choice!

That's one of my favorite songs. I love Billie Holiday's version and Elvis Costello's is pretty good, too!

[Dogmudgeon]

59. The BKL Suicide Set

This is from a compilation CD I made recently. See if you don't agree.


What'll I Do (Julie London)
Gloomy Sunday (Heather Nova)
Forever Autumn (Justin Hayward)
Ue O Muite Arukou (Sukiyaki) (Kyu Sakamoto)
Things I'd Like To Say (New Colony Six)
Walk Away Renee (Left Banke)
Dust In The Wind (Kansas)
I Feel Good (Today) (dB's/Chris Stamey)
Following (Bangles/Michael Steele)
Circle In The Sand (Belinda Carlisle)
Come Around (Kim Ritchie)
Thomasina (Terry Gilkyson)
End Of The Summer (Dar Williams)
Working Class Hero (John Lennon)
No Regrets (Tom Paxton )
Urge For Going (Tom Paxton )
I Don't Know Where I Stand (Judy Collins)
Mama, Look Sharp (1776 Soundtrack)
Black Coffee (k.d.lang)
Water Wolves (The Chills)
Caroline, No (Beach Boys)
Summer of my Wasted Youth (Amy Rigby)
Little Dancing Doll (Shelby Flint)
Rook (XTC)
That Same Old Obsession (Gordon Lightfoot)
Once Upon A Time (Frank Sinatra)
Kilkelly, Ireland (Dubliners)
Green, Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones)
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Williams)
All I Know (Art Garfunkel)
Second Avenue (Art Garfunkel)


Revel in the despair.

--bkl

[blondeatlast]

82. Play it at parties!!!

Yikes, guy.

[arwalden]

61. I Honestly Love You - ONJ

[WoodrowFan]

66. Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

:cry:

[scarlet_owl]

67. That song used to make me cry when I was very little.

I was a very sensitive child and I failed to see the humour of somebody's grandma getting run over by reindeer. Now I laugh my ass off when I hear it.

[WoodrowFan]

68. I was goona vote

for meatloaf's "Two outa three ain't bad" but someone beat me to it.

[mac56]

69. Nothing says Yuletide cheer quite like the maiming of senior citizens.

This is the lamest "holiday" song ever recorded. I refused to play it on my radio show. Told the owner I'd play it if the requester made a $100 donation to the local seniors center.

[theemu]

71. "Crying" by Roy Orbison

Either his solo version or his duet with kd lang.

[bif]

72. "Sunrise, Sunset"

from Fiddler on the roof. If you have daughters, you know what I mean. I puddle up every time I hear it..

[indigo32]

75. absolutely

and I don't even have children. While we're talking about Fiddler... how about Sabbeth Prayer from the movie (never seen stage version...is it included?)... that one gives me shivers. Gawd I love that movie.

[ScreamingMeemie]

78. Auuugggghhh! When did she get to be a beauty, when did he

grow to be so tall? Sniffle.

[blondeatlast]

84. Oh, yeah--it's the same one. Oh, man--killer.

I'll buy us all a cyber-beer and let's wail together, shall we?!

Damn that hurts.

[ScreamingMeemie]

88. I'm there...

:cry:

[blondeatlast]

83. God, yes. And I have a son.

There's another out there about watching your kids grow, not Bobby Goldsboro, something else, that just rips me every time I hear it now that I have a child. Can't remember the name or even how it goes. Maybe I'm trying to put it out of mind!

[bif]

87. Couldn't help it. Here is the lyric...

(Tevye)
Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?

(Golde)
I don't remember growing older
When did they?

(Tevye)
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he get to be so tall?

(Golde)
Wasn't it yesterday
When they were small?

(Men)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

(Women)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

(Tevye)
What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?

(Tevye)
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day

(Perchik)
They look so natural together

(Hodel)
Just like two newlyweds should be

(Perchik & Hodel)
Is there a canopy in store for me?

(All)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze

Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears

[blondeatlast]

89. Sob. Wail. Sob, sob, sob. Wail.

Thanks a LOT!

[ScreamingMeemie]

91. Oh stop stop stop...I just got over a cold and now I am getting

all stuffy again. I have the Roger Whitaker album, and half of those songs are just too much...sniffle.

[Art_from_Ark]

76. "Sayonara", by Off Course (Japanese)

Mou... owari da ne...................................It's all over, isn't it?
Kimi ga chiisaku mieru............................You look so far away
Boku wa omowazu kimi wo......................Instinctively, I want to reach out
Dakishimetaku naru.................................and hug you

"Watashi wa nakanai kara........................"I'm not going to cry", you said,
Kono mama hitorini shite"...................... "Just let me go."
Kimi no hoho wo namida ga....................Across your cheek
Nagaretewa ochiru..................................A teardrop falls

Sayonara, sayonara, sayonara.................Goodbye, Goodbye, Goodbye
Mou sugu soto wa shiroi fuyu.................Soon the white winter will come
Ai shita no ha, tashikani.........................The one I loved was, without a doubt
Kimi dake...............................................Only you
Sono mama no kimi dake.......................Only you, the way you were

[seamarq]

80. I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

[indigo32]

90. Jeez another one that gets me

I love Bonnie Raitt

[Beaker]

85. 10cc- "I'm not in love", Tindersticks- "The Not Knowing"

Jim Croce- "Operator"

[salmonhorse]

92. Little Omie ~

Traditional Adaptation ~ Doc Watson

Oh listen to my story
I’ll tell you no lies
How John Lewis did murder
Poor Little Omie Wise

He told her to meet him
At Adam’s Springs
He promised her money
And other fine things

Go with me Little Omie
And away we will ride
We’ll go and get married
And no one will know

She climbed up behind him
And away they did ride
But off to the river
Where the deep waters flow

John Lewis, John Lewis
Will you tell me your mind
Do you intend to marry me
Or leave me behind

Little Omie, Little Omie
I’ll tell you my mind
My mind is to drown you
And leave you behind

Have mercy on my baby
And spare me my life
I’ll go home as a beggar
And never be your wife

He kiss her and hug her
And turned her around
Then pushed her in deep water
Where he knew that she would drown

He got up on his pony
And away he did ride
As the screams of Little Omie
Went down by his side

T’was on a Thursday morning
The rain was pouring down
When the people searched for Omie
But she could not be found

Two boys went to fish’n
One fine summer’s day
And saw Little Omie’s body
Go floating away

They threw their net around her
And drew her to the bank
Her clothes all wet and muddy
They lay her on a plank

Then sent for John Lewis
To come to that place
And brought her out before him
So that he might see her face

He make no confession
But they carried him to jail
No friends nor relations
Would go on his bail

[BlueJazz]

93. "But Not For Me...by Ira & George Gershwin.

But Not For Me
George and Ira Gershwin

- From sheet music.

They're writing songs of love, but not for me.
A lucky star's above, but not for me.
With love to lead the way, I've seen more clouds of gray
Than any Russian play could guarantee.
I was a fool to fall and get that way.
Heigh ho, alas, and also lackaday.
Although I can't dismiss, the memory of her kiss.
I guess she's not for me.

She's knocking on the door, but not for me.
She'll plan a two by four, but not for me.
I know that love's a game, I'm puzzled just the same.
Was I the moth or flame, I'm all at sea.
It all began so well, but what an end.
This is the time a feller needs a friend.
When every happy plot ends with the marriage knot
And there's no knot for me.

[qwertyMike]

95. Anymore

by Travis Tritt - the only country song I downloaded er, own.

[Whitacre D_WI]

96. "Oh Comely"

by Neutral Milk Hotel