What songs reduce you to tears?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

Mine:

Shenandoah

The White Cliffs Of Dover - WWII song and no, I'm not that old, but somehow I picked up this song from my husbands parents. It fun to ask old piano players in lounges to play this song, but they all know it. And then I cry.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

1. Kind of cheesy, but...

"Right Here Waiting" by Richard Marx. I remember being really young and sniffling when that came on the radio.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. Oh, man.

A lot.

Ave Maria
Any of the songs by the Three Irish Tenors.
The Luckiest
Better Way
Amazing Grace
THe Easter canticle
Skin

[Danger Mouse]

3. Blue October's song and video 'Hate Me' made me weep.

Seriously. :cry:
I can't watch the video. Ever. Or I'll cry again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOziJi-1hHE

[Doc_Technical]

4. This is one of the songs that brings tears to my eyes.

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

[elleng]

50. Try this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zbbN4OL98&feature=related

[justabob]

5. puff the magic dragon nt

[Ava]

6. none that i can think of

i'm cold that way :rofl:

if sung well or on bagpipes.. amazing grace can me me teary eyed sometimes... taps gets me teary eyed sometimes too. don't get me wrong.. there's songs that make me sad.. but none that outright make me cry my eyes out.

[Danger Mouse]

51. listen to that blue october song + video.

[Ava]

60. i have

:shrug:

[Danger Mouse]

62. ah geez

[Danger Mouse]

63. nothing??

wow. you really are cold-hearted :P

[Ava]

69. gee, thanks

you crybaby :P

i think it's a sad song.. it just doesn't make me cry.

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. Anything by Celine, Beyonce, Billy Joel, NStink, whoever the whore du jour is, and so on.

Tears of boredom and tears of suffering that humanity's collective unconscious is being tainted, deformed, subsumed, and raped by such talentless, unartistic asshat filth.

[sniffa]

8. "Yes We Can" used to

[rug]

9. Lucille

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

:cry:

[Haole Girl]

10. Most recently...

Landslide - Fleetwood mac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-4BojWdjRE

It didn't used to. :cry:

[Diana Prince]

41. I love this song. I become a blubbering fool.

I even cry to the Dixie Chicks version. I can't help it.

I also seem to leak when this song comes on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgWPwvDZYEE

[BeachBaby]

11. Five songs come to mind.

"Oh Danny Boy"
"Taps"
"Amazing Grace" on bagpipes
"My Immortal" by Evanescence
"Black" by Pearl Jam

[bluedeminredstate]

12. Over the last 8 years...

An American Tune
King of America
Hard Rain


These are the first of many that I've wept over while thinking about the damage The Chimperor and his band of criminals have done to our country.

[elshiva]

13. Shenandoah for me, especially Richard Thompson's version.

Behind Blue Eyes
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

15. The best version I have ever heard is at the end of Nixon with Anthony Hopkins

It is done by an acapella choir and is it beyond belief.

[elshiva]

16. Is "Nixon" a good movie?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

22. I think it is for Hopkins performance alone.

He does not do an "impression. It's a lot deeper and better than that.

[elshiva]

24. I love Antony Hopkins, it's just that I have trouble with a

movie just about Nixon. Still, I am curious... Thank you. :)

[CBHagman]

77. Off topic, more on the film...

Nixon is worth seeing for the performances. I'm no fan of Oliver Stone, and I can't say whether Anthony Hopkins and Joan Allen nailed the personalities of, respectively, Dick and Pat Nixon. But both are very watchable, especially Allen, as I recall.

[Aristus]

40. My high school choir sang that a cappella rendition in concert once.

This was back in the 1980's. When I watched the end credits for "Nixon" and heard that song again, it about knocked me backward.

Beautiful song. My favorite American folk song. Any one of Paul Robeson's renditions brings me to tears.

[Danger Mouse]

52. Ah, Hattie Carroll is a tragic song...

[elshiva]

56. It's based on a true story.

And it has special meaning to me because I'm a Marylander.

[sohndrsmith]

14. "Summertime" with Louis and Ella, "Collide" Howie Day - for very

personal reasons... but they do.

Imagine - John Lennon
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

... also tough to get through but for more general reasons : )

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

17. I forgot about What a Wonderful World

you're right about that one. I'm misting up right now.

[sohndrsmith]

30. no way anyone can get through it unaffected... thankfully : ) n/t

[lightningandsnow]

18. Lately, this one.

I've been crying like a baby everytime I listen to it.

"Goodbye My Lover" by James Blunt.

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

[PassingFair]

19. Two versions of songs that otherwise do NOT make me cry...

Eva Cassidy doing "Fields of Gold"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs&feature=related

and

Children singing "Who Wants to Live Forever?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-WLdhlNE0



Waaaaaaa! :cry:

[LibDemAlways]

48. That Eva Cassidy sang so beautifully and yet sang in

obscurity is a crime. What a voice. What a shame.

[Schema Thing]

20. Not always, but if I let myself:

This Woman's Work, by Kate Bush (just cuz I'm a crybaby)


I Can't Make You Love Me, Bonnie Raitt (Had tickets to see her when my 1st marriage fell apart... thought I was doing ok that night, till she sang that)


In The Living Years (came on the radio as I drove home from the hospital after watching my father die)

Imagine (see explanation #1)

And for some reason, even though I'm completely agnostic, Amazing Grace gets to me just like it seems to get to most everyone else.

[GOPisEvil]

28. Agreed on the Bonnie.

Listening to that after getting dumped was NOT good.

[peruban]

21. "Imagine" by John Lennon.

Need I say more?

[PassingFair]

29. I sometimes choke up when I hear this one, too:

(Especially when I am in PMS phase)

Empty Garden
What happened here
As the new york sunset disappeared
I found an empty garden among the flagstones there
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And now it all looks strange
It’s funny how one insect can damage so much grain

And what’s it for
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
Who lived here
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
And we are so amazed we’re crippled and we’re dazed
A gardener like that one no one can replace


And I’ve been knocking but no one answers
And I’ve been knocking most all the day
Oh and I’ve been calling oh hey hey johnny
Can’t you come out to play


And through their tears
Some say he farmed his best in younger years
But he’d have said that roots grow stronger if only he could hear
Who lived there
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
Who weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Now we pray for rain, and with every drop that falls
We hear, we hear your name


Johnny can’t you come out to play in your empty garden

[foxfeet]

23. "The Coming of the Roads" by Judy Collins

I know; I'm old. Sigh.

[Forkboy]

25. Every Brittany Spears song.

:)

I have a few, but they're too personal to mention. I'm not letting you all know that much about me. ;)

[GOPisEvil]

26. "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

37. absolutely!

[stuntcat]

27. Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War

A lot of Paul Simon songs get to me, just the sound of them.

Another World & Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons both make me cry.

and k.d. lang singing L. Cohen's Hallelujah.

also The Tigers Have Spoken by Neko Case :cry: I cry a lot though I think.

[MorningGlow]

31. "Colors of the Wind"

Yes, from Pocahontas. I'm a tree hugger through and through.

[TX Screwball]

32. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush- Don't Give Up

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCRZLr9oRw

[NanceGreggs]

33. "Lonesome Road" by James Taylor ...

Also Art Garfunkel's rendition of "99 Miles From LA".

Used to listen to it over and over, three years into a miserable marriage, a long way from home, and a long way from the guy I should have married instead.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

34. John Lennon's "Woman"...

...and Jules Shear's "You're Not Around."

:toast:

[ElsewheresDaughter]

35. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

[1gobluedem]

36. Bridge Over Troubled Water

It reminds me of my childhood friend who was kidnapped and murdered.

[pokerfan]

38. Happy Birthday

[jrandom421]

39. Mother of a Miner's Child by Gordon Lightfoot

She is my flower
And she blooms for the one who loves her best
The miners stop to watch her as she walks
They know her love is not for sale
She will never fail me 'cause I know
I watched her grow
And the mother of a miner's child
Waits for me beside the kitchen door

She is my light
In this place where the darkness never ends
She'll guide me where the tunnels twist and bend
She's the only one who listens when I tell her
I got less than I can spend
She knows the pace
Oh mother of a miner's child
Wash away the coal dust from my face

When the night shift's done
She'll be waiting by the table when I come
Searching for another dream to chase
Oh mother of a miner's child
I know that you still think about the day
When we'll be movin' on
Remember dear old Daddy and
The promise that I made to carry on

Sometimes I smile
In the cage where the cables softly hum
I'd curse that old straw boss to the bone
But the mother of a miner's child
Is waiting for her paycheck to come home
Come Saturday
And he is just a miner's boy
I hope that he will find a better way

She is my flower
And she blooms for the one who loves her best
The miners stop to watch her as she walks
They know her love is not for sale
She will never fail me 'cause I know
I watched her grow
And the mother of a miner's child
Waits for me beside the kitchen door

[tismyself]

42. Adagio for Strings.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

43. Cat's in the Cradle, Hallelujah (k.d. lang), Mad World.

[PaddyBlueEyes]

44. Amazing Grace and Going Home

on Bagpipes at funerals.....

[x-g.o.p.er]

45. Landslide,

American Soldier, Taps, Pre-crack addict version of Whitney Houston doing the Star Spangled Banner, and Amazing Grace.

[mcctatas]

46. Amazing Grace on the bagpipes is a given...

and also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSUUO1sn18
The Green fields of France

my daughter plays and sings this one beautifully too :cry:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

47. The song about

Irishmen in the British Army? Blasphemy!!!!

[mcctatas]

49. whatever...

heretic! :evilgrin:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

53. disciple

of the WOB...

[JackBeck]

54. Most of Kate Bush's earlier stuff.

This Woman's Work
Running Up That Hill
Man With the Child in His Eyes

[LeftyMom]

55. Who Wants to Live Forever? - Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgK_keIJq-4

[PassingFair]

78. Check out my link in post #19.....

:cry:

[Iggo]

57. Oh god. Tons of 'em.

And they change over time.

Currently it's "To Love Somebody" by The Brothers Gibb.

[Symarip]

58. Ocean Rain - Echo and The Bunnymen

I'm reduced to nothing when I hear it. If it comes on the stereo when people are around I have to make a mad dash to turn it off.

[rockymountaindem]

59. Zog nit Keynmol

It's nearly impossible to find a recording on the internet, so here are the lyrics:

never say this final road for you,
though leaden skies cover over days of blue.
as the hour that we longed for is so near,
our steps beat out hte message, we are hear.
from lands so green with palms to lands all white with snow,
we shall be coming with our anguish and our woe.
and where a spurt of our blood fell on the earth,
there our courage and our spirit have rebirth.
the early morning sun will brighten our day,
and yesterday with our foe will fade away.
but if the sun delays and in the east remains,
this song as password generations must maintain.
this song is written wit our blood and not with lead,
it's not a little tune that birds sing overhead.
this song a people sang amid collapsing walls.
with grennades in hand they heeded he call.
therefore never say the road now ends for you,
though leaden skies may cover days of blue.
as the hour that we longed for is so near,
our steps beat out the message, we are hear!

It was a song of Jewish partisans (written in Yiddish) during the Holocaust.

[AbbeyRoad]

61. Old Shep

My mom sang it to me when I was little, and I'd cry every time. The weird thing is whenever she'd ask me which song I'd like her to sing, I'd ask for "Old Shep."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7_s2o4hG2A

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/e/elvis+presley/old+shep_20048380.html

[Jamastiene]

64. Rocky Mountain High

Actually, almost anything by John Denver and any song from John Cougar Mellencamp's Scarecrow album.

[auntAgonist]

65. Bridge Over Troubled Water: Simon and Garfunkel.

:cry:

Danny Boy

Amazing Grace

We'll meet again by Vera Lynn

[cemaphonic]

66. Sorry You're sick - Ted Hawkins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv5MgFaVYeM

[RFKHumphreyObama]

67. "Mama" by Il Divo

I don't get moved to tears by it because I very rarely get moved to tears. But it was one of my favorite songs previously but, ever since my mother passed away last year, I find it very painful to listen to and it can choke me up when I do listen to it

[soleiri]

68. Songs from musicals

yeah I'm a musical dork
"No one is alone" from Into the woods
"empty chairs at empty tables" and the Fantine and Eponine dying songs from Les Miserables

[Resuscitated Ethics]

70. Squirrel Nut Zippers xmas "Gift of the Magi"

I know how it ends. But I well up every single time I hear this song.
"Christmas Caravan" http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Caravan-Squirrel-Nut-Zippers/dp/B00000AE4A

[BarenakedLady]

71. Mad World

War on Drugs, Broken, Everybody Hurts...I'm sure there are more.

[PRETZEL]

72. Depends on the day but this song no matter when I hear it

"The Last Resort" by the Eagles.

[old mark]

73. Any dumb old song about dogs, especially dying or dead dogs,

gets me teared up.

I really miss my absent companions, and I love them all.

mark

[unsavedtrash]

74. Tusk and Weakness in Me

Tusk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv5UvVaIxRY


Weakness in Me- Melissa Etheridge version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL83Z0YTj4g

[Lyric]

75. Lots of them.

Hallelujah (Rufus Wainwright)
The Last Song (Elton John, and this one makes me SOB, not just cry)
Go Rest High On That Mountain (played at my Dad's funeral, and inscribed on his marker)
Travelin' Soldier (The Dixie Chicks)
That's Why I'm Here (Kenny Chesney)
Little Rock (Collon Raye)
My Immortal (Evanescence)
Silver Springs - The Dance version (Fleetwood Mac)
There You'll Be (Faith Hill)
She Thinks His Name Was John (Reba McEntire)
The Freshmen (The Verve Pipe)
Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
Desperado (The Eagles)

[CBHagman]

76. Besides "It Makes No Difference" by the Band...

...there's an extremely long list. For starters, "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables -- just thinking about the song makes me weep -- and "I Dreamed a Dream" from the same show.

"And the Trumpet Shall Sound" from The Messiah does it too. In fact a lot of things sung in church turn on the old tear ducts these days.

[Burma Jones]

79. Sam Stone, Hello In There and Souveniers by John Prine, Walkin' Home by Iris DeMent and

that part when Farmer Hoggett sings "If I Had Words" to Babe......


And I tear up each time I sing Beethoven's Ninth - afterwards of course......