What song makes you.....cry?

[Parche]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjCoBTzrN9E :cry:

[Tikki]

1. "Steppin' Out"...by Joe Jackson

I know this isn't necessarily a sad song...but it has a
very special meaning to me...and it always tears me up a bit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inrEPapTtMM

... "You can dress in pink and blue just like a child
And in a yellow taxi turn to me and smile
We'll be there in just a while if you follow me..."

Tikki

[Systematic Chaos]

23. Funny you should mention a song from Night & Day.

Breaking Us in Two rips me to shreds every time I hear it, and it did the same thing to me in 1982 when I was but 13. :cry:

[auntAgonist]

2. Bridge Over Troubled Water

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKJuDxYr3I

[doc03]

3. Imagine n/t

[Mr. Ected]

4. Everything I Own by Bread

David Gates' tribute to his father.

[blue neen]

5. "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5Rdb9ncfM

Unbelievably sad.

[pokerfan]

6. The River - Bruce Springsteen

Now all them things that seemed so important
Well mister they vanished right into the air
Now I just act like I don't remember
Mary acts like she don't care

[miscsoc]

32. I was going to post this

is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse ;____;

[Mopar151]

53. This song gets to people you never knew had that much soul...

My roomie's "Kelly Bundy"ish cousin was hangin' out, I was listening to the album. "The River" played when she was in the bathroom, and she came out all teary-eyed "That's Bruce Springsteen? I never knew!....."

[kentauros]

7. Beethoven's Ode to Joy

Parts 2 & 3, choral portion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9V5yUsrmdg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_5z0m7cs0A


Also Moonlight Sonata, mvt. 1,2,3 even if it's not a "song"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6txOvK-mAk (the most well-known and famous mvt.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNsX4DtzZs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSulR9Fymg&feature=related

[burrfoot]

8. Tomorrow Wendy

The version I know and love is by Concrete Blonde, though it's a cover. The original is by Andy Prieboy.

Amazing song.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

9. "Scotland the Brave" on pipes and drum...........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5O0cDpEay8&feature=related

Don't know why, it just tears me up.

[miscsoc]

33. I like this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oieFS785QPk

For drunken scottish nationalist emotional purposes.

Ironically, written by Germans.

[MissMillie]

10. JoDee Messina "Bring on the Rain"

it just does

[Brickbat]

11. "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." EVERY. TIME.

I mean even the time when it comes on the classic rock station in the middle of summer right after "Sweet Home Alabama" and the windows are down and the sun is shining and life is good. EVEN THEN I WEEP WHEN I HEAR THE SONG ABOUT THE FITZ.

More understandably, this song by Arvo Part makes me cry because it is so beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dweiGyjxhHs

[kimmerspixelated]

63. I love Gordon! Also, If You Could Read My Mind, Love, or

something like that. I think he still tours. I'd love to see him. Somewhere I still have the old Sundown album. That cover!

[kimmerspixelated]

64. Several Joni Mitchell tunes, such as River

and Willie. So many to choose from. I'm sure they will come to me later!

[SeattleGirl]

12. "In the Living Years" - Mike and The Mechanics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k


Reminds me of my father. :cry:

[SayitAintSo]

61. good one n/t

[RFKHumphreyObama]

79. Yes SG that is a beautiful song

:cry:

[rrneck]

13. Jackson Browne, The Pretender

Paul Simon, The Boxer

[superduperfarleft]

85. My dad used to play The Boxer to me on his guitar all the time.

But I never knew what the song was until I checked it out on youtube. Thanks for the reminder.

[applegrove]

14. Tears in Heaven

[mitchum]

15. Happy Birthday

[abq e streeter]

16. An embarrasingly large number of songs including That Summer Feeling, by Jonathan Richman

Gets me every time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_jRDVStzOY

[abq e streeter]

17. And both Today , and Comin Back to Me--Jefferson Airplane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uokp0aEiT-A


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NdvMT32skw&feature=related

[hobbit709]

31. Beat me to it.

[abq e streeter]

18. The Moody Blues-Your Wildest Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_3oT1Up8o&feature=related

[abq e streeter]

19. The Temptations-I've Passed This Way Before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg3eaRZu4Dw


A hurt that took so long to mend
Has found my poor heart again...

[cherokeeprogressive]

20. That's a tough one because I'm a crybaby...

It might be a certain lyric, a certain guitar riff, a certain piano flourish, goodness, it might be any number of things.

I guess my answer is "too many to count".

[abq e streeter]

21. Tom Traubert's Blues-Tom Waits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGpwgHqlfWo&feature=related



and it's a battered old suitcase
to a hotel someplace
and a wound that will never heal...

[csziggy]

22. Uriah Heep - Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrbgbL-iIOY&

[DFW]

24. "On And On"

by Stephen Bishop

[rurallib]

25. "Golden Slumbers" by the Beatles from Abbey Road

it was what I used as a lullabye for my 2 little girls. They are now 32 and 30, with the younger being a new mother.
We had a very rough time back then - Mrs. Lib lay near death for a couple weeks after the second child was born.
Just brings back a lot of memories.

[Iggo]

26. The older I get, the longer the list gets.

[SteppingRazor]

27. Well, I wouldn't say there's any song that literally makes me cry. But some do get me a bit wistful:

And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by the Pogues does the job:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKj2ZPEY7pY

Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is a real tearjerker:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18361009

Black Muddy River by the Grateful Dead's a good bet, especially given that it was the last song Jerry sang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZ5aBPKAM4

And Warren Zevon's Keep Me In Your Heart for a While is fairly devastating, as the man recorded it knowing he was dying:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20189897

Anyway, that's for starters.

[Arkansas Granny]

28. "Back Home Again" by John Denver will do it for me every time.

There's a storm across the valley, clouds are rolling in,
the afternoon is heavy on your shoulders.
There's a truck out on the four lane, a mile or more away,
the whining of his wheels just makes it colder.

He's an hour away from riding on your prayers up in the sky
and ten days on the road are barely gone.
There's a fire softly burning, supper's on the stove,
but it's the light in your eyes that makes him warm.

Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it's good to be back home again.

There's all the news to tell him, how's you spend your time,
and what's the latest thing the neighbors say?
And your mother called last Friday, "Sunshine" made her cry
and you felt the baby move just yesterday.

Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it's good to be back home again.

Oh, the time that I can lay this tired old body down,
and feel your fingers feather soft upon me.
The kisses that I live for, the love that lights my way,
the happiness that living with you brings me.

It's the sweetest thing I know of, just spending time with you.
It's the little things that make a house a home.
Like a fire softly burning and supper on the stove,
the light in your eyes that makes me warm.

Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it's good to be back home again.

Hey, it's good to be back home again.
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend.
Yes, and hey, it's good to be back home again.
I said hey, it's good to be back home again.

[Joe Fields]

29. Dion's "Abraham, Martin and John," is the only song ...

that brings tears to my eyes every time.

[liberaltrucker]

30. Gordon Lightfoot "Carefree Highway"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJYREFafQ9s

Has nothing to do with my former occupation, though.

[GoCubsGo]

67. Yep.

And, I never had any sort of related occupation. :)

[femmocrat]

34. I used to cry at this one: "Turn Around" by the Kingston Trio.

"Where are you going, my little one, little one?" Anyone remember that one?

"Danny Boy" makes me cry too. :cry:

[canoeist52]

70. Me too. I couldn't even think of "Where are you going..."

and look at my kids without crying

[Lars39]

35. The Chieftains & Alison Krauss - Molly Ban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFzkWsMrNfk&playnext=1&videos=cN0Mo3Uv__I


Now use this one to pick yourself off the floor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw5Knvdtutk&playnext=1&videos=OGigE9o6PO0

[hamsterjill]

36. I Hope You Dance...

Leann Womack.

Special meaning that reminds me of a very sad day. Regardless of where I happen to be, when that song comes on, the tears flow uncontrollably.

[sinkingfeeling]

56. Me too.

[Forkboy]

37. Michael Franti - Hey World (Don't Give Up)

The song itself is powerful, but the video with it gets me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01FE9cPXE3M&feature=related

[blueknight]

38. the end of the world

sang by my dear departed aunt, skeeter davis. although it just makes me sad because i think of her, and how sweet and kind she was to us

[Maccagirl]

44. Skeeter Davis was your aunt?

I've been replaying "I Can't Stay Mad at You" on Youtube the last couple of days-it's so catchy I have vague memories of it growing up. I've been trying to get a copy of her book "Last Bus to Kentucky" and will keep surfing book sellers.

[edbermac]

39. Anything by Oasis.

Man, do they SUCK!

[Martysbestcatch]

40. The Old Man

written by Phil Coulter and sung by George Donaldson of Celtic Thunder.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. Cat's in the Cradle

That one kills me.

[lazarus]

42. Shores of the Swilly

by Phil Coulter, vocals by Sinead O'Connor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltvpZ0EkqM

[Amerigo Vespucci]

43. This one, because the guy who wrote and performed it...

...was shot and killed right in front of his home within days of its release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CLGtgovIqc

(John Lennon, "Woman")

[triguy46]

45. The Eagles, "Girls of Summer"

Because when it came out I was in a short torrid affair with a beautiful blond who had her way with me, opened the car door and booted my ass out before I knew what was going on. She ripped my heart out, stepped on it and drove off. What a fool I was at the time.

[muffin1]

46. Linda Ronstadt - this one always does it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hoX4rXJGWg

[muffin1]

47. Kate Bush, man...all the way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-kjh4nsebI

[vixengrl]

48. The Song "Wildfire" made me cry hysterically when I was little.

I think the word "pony" got my attention, so I listened to the words. I was 6 or so. Anyway, it clicked in my head that there was a girl who went out after her runaway pony in a killing frost and she and the pony were dead.

Dead girl. Dead pony. Hysterical small me. Being told "it's just a song" did nothing for me. Of course it was a song, but no one would make a song like that if ponies and girls couldn't freeze to death. Later on, I heard it and got the other part--the song's "narrative" voice is expecting to die and they'll be riding the pony in the afterlife.

One pony. Two people. Well that's just awkward....

Now I just chalk it up to being one of those "bummer" songs that seemed to be popular in the mid-70's.

[deutsey]

52. Hmm. I remember the tune of the song bummed me out when I was a kid

but I had no idea that's what the song was about (I knew it was about a horse, or pony, but didn't pay attention to the story).

Sheesh. Now I'm depressed thinking about it. :-)

[Patiod]

49. "When I was a Boy" by Dar Williams

Very sweet

[Bennyboy]

50. Have I Told You Lately...

everytime.

[jotsy]

51. I'm embarrassed to confess

it's a dance song from the end of a cheesy dance movie with Jessica Alba.

I believe.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NgBfM8hKo&feature=related>

[deutsey]

54. The Post War Dream by Pink Floyd

Should we shout?
Should we scream?
What happened to the post-war dream?

[sinkingfeeling]

55. "Danny Boy" and 'My Heart Will Go On".

[BarbaRosa]

57. Dixie Chicks - Travelin' Soldier

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLBgmbXBOb8

I don't know if it's because it's about 'Nam, or it's just a good sad war song in general.

It gets me every time.

[ceile]

58. "Black" Pearl Jam and "Don't Dream it's Over"- Crowded House

"Fade Into You" comes pretty close...

[Mr. Ected]

59. Puff the Magic Dragon

I have no idea why. I cried when I heard it as a child. And now that I have kids that are growing up (quickly), whenever I happen to hear it, it brings a tear to my eye.

[EOTE]

60. Shakira - Inevitable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrqR0qrdis

Also, I have to admit that some of Taylor Swift's songs get me a bit teary eyed. And I'm generally not fond at all of Country music.

[IcyPeas]

62. A song that Mr. Scorpio posted yesterday.....

"Who Knows Where the Time Goes"

I love both Sandy Denny's version and Judy Collins' version in that order.

beautiful song

(sorry can't link from work)

[chillspike]

65. I remember when I was a little boy

i was in the hospital in New York for some surgery and was laying alone in my hospital room late in the day just after surgery, not really feeling too good about myself and life and the song you linked to came on the ward radio speaker. I don't know why I have always remembered it with such emphasis but i do. It must be because it was early in my life when I was still wondering what Life had in store for me. But every time I hear that song it reminds me off that moment alone in my hospital room in the big city.

Why does it make you cry?

[Glassunion]

66. The Marine Corps Hymn...

[Tripper11]

68. Calling All Angels

Jane Sibery(also known as Issa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkJDu0B-1U

[canoeist52]

69. Tom Rush - "Child's Song"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dx6Zdx2AJ4

Goodbye momma goodbye to you too pa
Little sister you'll have to wait a while to come along
Goodbye to this house and all it's memories
We just got too old to say we're wrong

Got to make one last trip to my bedroom
Guess I'll have to leave some stuff behind
It's funny how the same old crooked pictures
Just don't seem the same to me tonight

There ain't no use in shedding lonely tears mamma
There ain't no use in shouting at me pa
I can't live no longer with your fears mamma
I love you but that hasn't helped at all

Each of us must do the things that matter
All of us must see what we can see
It was long ago you must remember
You were once as young and scared as me

I don't know how hard it is yet mamma
When you realize you're growing old
I know how hard is not to be younger
I know you've tried to keep me from the cold

Thanks for all you done it may sound hollow
Thank you for the good times that we've known
But I must find my own road now to follow
You will all be welcome in my home

Got my suitcase I must go now
I don't mind about the things you said
I'm sorry Mom I don't know where I'm going
Remember little sister look ahead

Tomorrow I'll be in some other sunrise
Maybe I'll have someone at my side
Mamma give your love back to your husband
Father you've have taught we well goodbye
Goodbye Mamma goodbye to you too pa

Writer : MURRAY MCLAUGHLIN

[harmonicon]

71. far too many to list (nt)

[WinkyDink]

72. Well, I could've loved you better, didn't mean to be unkind. You know that was The Last Thing On My

Mind.

[applegrove]

73. "Season's In The Sun" used to make me cry when I was a kid.

[AsahinaKimi]

74. This song ALWAYS makes me cry

Endless Story sang by Yuna Ito
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yMKxoES2ik

[AllenVanAllen]

75. Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah - Requiem

It's a beautiful piece of music...and it always has the same effect on me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yjOZmlbshU

[Forkboy]

81. Good choice!

:)

[6000eliot]

76. "Vincent" by Don McLean always gets me going.

[velvet]

77. Madame George

It :cry: me every time.

[superduperfarleft]

78. Anybody listen to the Antlers?

Their album Hospice is probably one of the most depressing things I've ever heard in my life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf8MN0-nEI&feature=related

Also Neutral Milk Hotel's love song for Anne Frank, "In The Aeroplane Over the Sea." (the song itself). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH3CRVVBL9o

[Forkboy]

80. I have Hospice, Cold War and In The Attic of the Universe.

Good band. I love depressing music. :)

[RFKHumphreyObama]

82. "Mama" by Il Divo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW3u9-ytxFY

When my mother was alive and this was a big hit, she loved this song and I used to as well. Then she died and it's now very painful for me to listen to this

[grace0418]

83. "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds is one. Also, "Baby Mine" from Dumbo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_XwAKrLidw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CORf1liT9cE

[derby378]

84. TIME by The Alan Parsons Project

If it doesn't make me cry, it certainly makes me hang my head down low.

[MichiganVote]

86. Taps.