What is your cry-like-a-baby song as of this minute?

[Bossy Monkey]

Me: "Time of Your Life" by Green Day. (Yes, I know the real punk rock title; I think they just did that to make up for the cello.) Apparently I'm still having issues from the breakup more than a year ago.

Also the Marseillaise in "Casablanca" still works pretty well.

And you?

[abq e streeter]

1. That's easy--- The Box Tops---Cry Like a Baby

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=orGQ_DI9R8c&v=PVY691ObVJE

[LynzM]

2. Anachie Gordon...

The Atwater-Donnelly version: http://www.atwater-donnelly.com/onlinestore.htm#Weaver

Harking is bonny and there lives my love
My heart lies on him and will not remove
It will not remove ohh for all that I have done
Ohh I never will forget my love Anachie
For Anachie Gordon he's bonny and he's rough
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
He'd entice any woman and so he has done me
O I never will forget me love Anachie

Down came her father and he's standing by the door
Saying Jeannie you're trying the tricks of a whore
You care nothing for a man who cares so very much for thee
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Anachie
For Anachie Gordon he's barely but a man
Although he may be pretty but where are his lands
O the Sultan's lands are broad and his towers they are high
You must marry Lord Sultan and leave Anachie

With Anachie Gordon I'd beg for my bread
And before I'll marry Sultan it's gold to my head
With gold to my head and gowns fringed to the knee
And I'll die if I don't get me love Anachie
And you who are my parents to church you may me bring
But unto Lord Sultan I'll never bear a son
To a son or a daughter I'll never bow my knee
And I'll die if I don't get me love Anachie

Jeannie was married and from church she was brought home
And when she and her maidens so merry should have been
When she and her maidens so merry should have been
She went into her chamber, she cried all alone

Come to bed now Jeannie me honey and my sweet
For to style you my mistress it would be so sweet
Be it mistress or Jeannie it's all the same to me
But in your bed Lord Sultan I never will lie
And down came her father and he's spoken with reknown
Saying you who are her maidens go loosen off her gowns
But she fell down to the floor so close down by his knee
Saying father look I'm dying for me love Anachie

The day Jeannie married was the day that Jeannie died
And the day that young Anachie came home on the tide
And down came her maidens all wringing of their hands
Saying oh it's been so long, so long on the sands
Ohh so long on the sands, o so long upon the flood
They have married your Jeannie and now she lies dead.

You who are her maidens come take me by the hand
And take me to the chamber that me love she lies in
And he's kissed her cold lips, and his heart has turned to stone
And he's died in the chamber that his love she lies in.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Captain Hilts]

3. La Marseillaise in Casablanca always does it for me. nt

[OhioChick]

4. The Fray-How to Save a Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5wtaCUQij8

:cry:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Always will be Mahler's No. 2 for me.

I don't believe in crying over songs, but music that is beautiful beyond reckoning can certainly move me to tears, and Mahler's No. 2 has it in spades.

[Captain Hilts]

7. GOOD choice!!

[BeachBaby]

6. "Apologize" by Timbaland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyRrb2-fzs

[mitchum]

8. "Happy Birthday" when it's sung to me

[Bossy Monkey]

22. The song doesn't bother me, but the number of candles is starting to

:)

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HuIZHrHthU

[cyberswede]

10. "Turn Around"

by Danny Kaye - it's made me cry since I was little.
I'm crying right now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6w5aZ5_Ac8

[Jade Fox]

54. That song is mine too.....

I remember reading an interview with folk singer Malvina Reynolds, who wrote the "Turn Around".

In discussing that song, Reynolds talked about how she was out on the road performing during a lot of her daughter's childhood, and she credited her husband for the fact their girl turned out so well.

I've actually never heard this Danny Kaye version. Thanks!

[Brickbat]

11. The Olympic Theme. And I'm not even kidding.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. That's funny.

I remember way back when in 1996 my dog passed away just as the Olympics in Atlanta started. That was the Olympics where they debuted the solemn and simple John Williams horn theme for the Olympics. And I remember the night after I had buried my dog I was sitting around rather miserable, and to try to take my mind off of it I turned on the Olympics. And at the end of the broadcast they played that theme and I don't know why, but it evoked a rather bittersweet feeling in me. And it still manages to do that ever since.

So you aren't the only one who has an emotional reaction to the Olympic theme.

[Brickbat]

13. Oh, how hard to have that connection!

I have no reason that the theme makes me teary. I think part of it is because it really is so sublime. The older I get, the more music makes me cry anyway. I just get all excited at people working together to make something beautiful, and boom, I'm a puddle.

[Raffi Ella]

14. Already Gone by Kelly Clarkson.

I can not listen to it with out crying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqvKfGCsL5A&feature=related

[mcctatas]

15. I have several...

but the first one that popped into my head was "There Were Roses" by Tommy Sands

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVlIV9dqVXA

sung by Mick Moloney

So my song for you this evening, it's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows of our troubled northern land
But lately I've been thinking and it just won't leave my mind
I'll tell you of two friends of mine who were both good friends of mine

Isaac Scott from Banagh, he lived just across the fields
A great man for the music, the dancing and the reels
McDonald came from South Armagh to court young Alice fair
And we often met on the Ryan Road and laughter filled the air

-Chorus-
There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together

Now Isaac he was Protestant and Sean was Catholic born
But it never made a difference, for the friendship it was strong
And sometimes in the evening when we heard the sound of drums
We said it won't divide us, we always will be one

For the ground our fathers plowed in, the soil it is the same
And the places where we say our prayers have just got different names
We talked about the friends who'd died and hoped there'd be no more
It was little then we realized the tragedy in store

-Chorus-

It was on a Sunday morning when the awful news came round
Another killing had been done just outside Newry Town
We knew that Isaac danced up there, we knew he liked the band
But when we heard that he was dead we just could not understand

We gathered round the graveside on a cold and rainy day
The minister he closed his eyes and for no revenge he prayed
And all of us who knew him from along the Ryan Road
We bowed our heads and said a prayer for the resting of his soul

-Chorus-

Now fear it filled the countryside there was fear in every home
When late at night a car came prowling round the Ryan Road
A Catholic would be killed tonight to even up the score
Oh Christ it's young McDonald they've taken from the door

Isaac was my friend! he cried, he begged them with his tears
But centuries of hatred have ears that do not hear
An eye for an eye, it was all that filled their minds
And another eye for another eye till everyone is blind

-Chorus-

So my song for you this evening, it's not to make you sad
Nor for adding to the sorrows of our troubled northern land
But lately I've been thinking and it just won't leave my mind
I'll tell you of two friends of mine who were both good friends of mine

Now I don't know where the moral is or where this song should end
But I wonder just how many wars are fought between good friends
And those who give the orders are not the ones to die
It's Scott and McDonald and the likes of you and I

There were roses, roses
There were roses
And the tears of a people ran together
There were roses, roses
There were roses....

[dana_b]

16. Bridge Over troubled Water

Went to my aunt's funeral yesterday and that song was played a couple of times. She loved it.

[Lars39]

17. Doomsday by Murray Gold, from Doctor Who.

Haunting.

[mycatfred]

18. "Time of your life" makes me cry, too!

So does "Fall the Pieces" by Avril Lavigne.
"Life of a Salesman" and "Believe" by Yellowcard
and "Annie's song" by John Denver (that and "Time of your life" are my parents' songs)

[annabanana]

19. Wake Me When September Ends

heartbreaking

[BeachBaby]

20. "A Woman's Work" by Kate Bush will do it every time.

[BlueIris]

21. Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" is really the only song that can actually make me cry.

Although Death Cab for Cutie's "Cath" came pretty close the first time I heard it.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

23. Two of them

"Ï Dreamed a Dream" by Ruthie Henshall. Best version of this song I've heard to date

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-IBJpEMzA

Also by Ruthie Henshall "Come to Me"/Fantine's Death. This song is sung by her character as she is dying and she is hallucinating that she has daughter by her side
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqDv4FHBw3A&feature=related

[begin_within]

24. The soaring instrumental section never fails

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrRxQVUFN4

[smoopie]

25. Reign O'er Me

Because I recently lost the love of my life to cancer and it was our song.

[Ahpook]

26. Simply for a time when America had it MORE together.

Still a crazy era!

Numerous amounts of songs pop in my head from this period, but thought of this one:)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Yakl_xIkc

[RainDog]

27. Love Is a Losing Game

this version

Gary Jules' version of Mad World

[Art_from_Ark]

28. Abraham, Martin and John, by Dion

Goin' Back, by Dusty Springfield

[Dystopian]

29. Comin' Back to Me - Jefferson Airplane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwPYhQVtIxU
Haunting....
This song has brought me to tears since the beginning of time.....

But not as of this minute...


peace~

[abq e streeter]

30. Synchronicity...not the song...the situation...sent you a PM maybe 5 minutes ago

and I started to do a "plus one" on this song before I noticed you were who'd posted it...Today, from the same album also does it to me. There are as many times as not that I just can't listen to either one.
Jonathan Richman's That Summer Feeling is like that too. Another one is I've Passed This Way Before by both Jimmy Ruffin and his brother David with the Tempatations.

[Dystopian]

40. Yes.....Today....The title is eerie today...

And also this one...for some reason I love the old video..when things were as they should be.
I'm So Afraid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJyzijG0I0k
Slip and I fall and I die....

peace~

[hobbit709]

43. Today does it for me every time.

That's the one we played at our wedding.

[abq e streeter]

51. Aw Hobbit, your post brought a little tear to my eye

I know you lost your beloved wife last year, and I started noticing your posts a little more after that, and was glad to see after awhile, you jumping back in here, including humorous posts. Laughter is the one thing that keeps us going. I know it has for me during my depressive episodes in my life, although I would never compare my little weak and self-indulgent problems to the sorrow of losing the love of one's life. I posted a couple of "faux-sad" ones on this thread too. Listen to them and get a little chuckle out of them, if you feel like it.On edit: just listened to Seeds and Stems again, and in a way ,I guess it is sort of genuinely sad, but with the silly angle of comparing it all to being fresh out of weed ( NOOOOOOO...), but the other one is definitely worth it for a good giggle... :hug: for the memories that Today is bringing, and :silly: for at least the first of the two other songs I posted.

[abq e streeter]

31. 2 more---Moody Blues-Your Wildest Deams and Richard Thompson-Misunderstood

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=TfaxtoMmno8&v=Nl_3oT1Up8o

and sure enough, couldn't get all the way through it....

Also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=UkqYKn4desg&v=M4YNGnf-ECo

[abq e streeter]

32. And on a MUCH less serious note; these two: The Fugs, and Commander Cody

http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=CXmOjZ_d8bY&v=uNbU8WCyVe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch#playnext=1&playnext_from=TL&videos=z3fOjMHwpZA&v=tenlsengNM4

[oustemnow]

33. "Birthday Boy" by Ween

Gets me every time.

Also, for whatever reason, the Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize?" is always good for at least a lump in the throat.

[asdjrocky]

34. Saddest song I know-

Social Distortion - Ball and Chain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fqvfp94k6Ps

[KamaAina]

35. O Canada

after today's choke job in women's hockey. :(

[Raffi Ella]

52. yeah, imagine how awful it was for Team USA...

:hug:

[lazarus]

36. Mr Tanner by Harry Chapin

The whole song is beautiful, but the last verse just makes me weep.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fkir9alzA

[Bossy Monkey]

55. "It just made him whole." Thanks for reminding me. n/t

[blue_roses_lib]

37. This one - "Mary" Patty Griffith

"Mary"

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes
You're covered in rain
You're covered in babies, you're covered in slashes
You're covered in wilderness, you're covered in stains
You cast aside the sheet, you cast aside the shroud
Of another man, who served the world proud
You greet another son, you lose another one
On some sunny day and always stay, Mary

Jesus says Mother I couldn't stay another day longer
Flys right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Mary she moves behind me
She leaves her fingerprints everywhere
Everytime the snow drifts, everytime the sand shifts
Even when the night lifts, she's always there

Jesus said Mother I couldn't stay another day longer
Flys right by me and leaves a kiss upon her face
While the angels are singin' his praises in a blaze of glory
Mary stays behind and starts cleaning up the place

Mary you're covered in roses, you're covered in ruin
you're covered in secrets
Your'e covered in treetops, you're covered in birds
who can sing a million songs without any words
You cast aside the sheets, you cast aside the shroud
of another man, who served the world proud
You greet another son, you lose another one
on some sunny day and always stay
Mary, Mary, Mary


First heard on an episode of Sons of Anarchy, when Gemma breaks her silence, and it reminds me of when I broke my own.

I have others too... I noticed this past Christmas that I choke and start bawling when tradtional recordings of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" play. Go figure.

[MiddleFingerMom]

38. Ricky Lee Jones' "Company" from her first (and I think BEST) album.

.
Always makes me think of those who I've lost, in one way or another,
through all the years.
.
Mostly of my big brother, MiddleFingerTom, who died in 1981 at the
age of 33 of an overdose.
.
I miss him more than any other, I think.
.
http://blip.fm/profile/Triple5Light/blip/5174907/Rickie+Lee+Jones...Company
.
.
Click on the little RED "play" link around the center of the page and give
it a few seconds.
.

[Unvanguard]

39. Not for sadness, but Adam Joseph's cover of "Finally"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TwnfoxaF74

[travelingtypist]

41. Two at the moment

Lay Down by Melanie and Last to Die by Springsteen.

[dmr]

42. Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues

good and painful memories surround that song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

Damn YouTube's makin' me cry

[PassingFair]

44. "Collide"

This kid just makes me cry for some reason.

Great songwriter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9Q45h-QKOs

[Arkansas Granny]

45. "Back Home Again" by John Denver. Brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVB0JXlmEY

[Inchworm]

46. So many...

I'm easy though.

Thinking of a Jem song first though. It passes. :)

:hi:

[MountainLaurel]

47. "Time After Time" -- the Eva Cassidy version

It completely undid me this week listening to it at work.

[GoCubsGo]

48. Here Comes the Sun

I miss George.

[bif]

49. Guggenheim Grotto "Heaven has a heart of stone"

Poor audio quality. I saw these guys last night. What an amazing show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0OirvN76ZA

[RFKHumphreyObama]

50. A few more

Rhyme and Reason by John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CelWyLOVHQ

Leaving on a jet plane -John Denver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4hsC0nRvZM

Another Les Miserables one -Do You Hear the People Sing Encore?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYr8TWAGn0

Michael Jackson -Heal the World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwrSVDRP-2Y

[Burma Jones]

53. Brahms' Requiem, Third Movement, last 3 1/2 minutes

Also, Beethoven's 9th, fourth movement

And Mahler's 2nd, yep...........

I sing Tenor and have sung the Brahms six or seven times. I went to a performance of the piece about two weeks after 9/11 with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. That performance was the most intense group emotional experience I've ever been in.

A repeated line in the Brahms is: "und keine Qual rühret sie an" translated - "and there shall no torment touch them" -


Beethoven's 9th is the sound of what I wish the whole world felt.......Every time I perform it, I have trouble singing by the end at the part where everything slows down before the last minute.


If I'm in the right mood, about half of John Prine's songs get me choked up......

And Iris Dement's "I'm Walking Home" can get me woozy too.......