Seriously now....what songs make you cry ?

Reguritating an old thread I know but hey Im in and out like a friggin yoyo so I catch em as I can :D

For me the biggest tear jerker is...

Sunshine by John Denver... first heard it as I sat holding a girlfriends hand as she passed away... we were heading to Perth from Carnarvon for a holiday she had taken her car I mine as she had to return to work before me, I was following her and as we went around a bend just after the Billabong roadhouse a semi trailers back trailer swerved across and collected her... we were on the side of the road late at night in the rain the cars totaled and shes broken but the radio plays bloody "Sunshine" as my girl faded and left me ... most terrible night of my life :( I still see her clear as day if I ever hear "Sunshine"... its been banned in my home ever since and still is. (her highness is cool with it although she loves the album... respect you know?)

Danny boy also does me in... First time I played it at a funeral was my granddads in Adelaide and although I managed to get through without falling apart when I played it at my mums funeral a couple of years ago my sisters and brother had to come up to help me finish it... ended up sounding okay and the fact that all her kids had sung it together was pretty cool she would have liked that

Years ago I used to play lead and some vocals in a band up north mostly funny songs beer songs old man emu guitar man out behind the shed fun stuff you know... we used to do a lot of Dr Hook for hysterics value... and there was one that was a sort of one of those "not done" songs called "One more year of lollipops" about a dad whos daughter has a year to live... I made it a song we wouldnt cover since I knew I would bawl my heart out as I always did when I heard it or tried to sing it... until the drummer and his girlfriend lost their little 8 year old son to Luekemia and I was asked to sing it both at the funeral and at the first gig after... man talk about a blubbering mess... but luckily the others picked me up and carried the song... I still cant sing it or hear it without crying for that gorgeous little fella gone so young :(

Your right its the memories and emotions that the words conjure in ones mind that sets the tears to flowing... I can listen to Amazing Grace without a murmur but put on any of those above and Im history

Yep, certain songs can take you back, and albums too. I remember Dad bringing home Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge over troubled water" from Perth one time, I think after a trip to the hospital for leukemia treatment. I was about 11 or 12, and he died not long after. I haven't listened to it for years though.
I get a bit of lump in the throat from listening to the Indigo Girls doing a version of 'Romeo and Juliette', the Dire Straits song. They do it well, acoustic, with passion and pain writ large!

Cheers,

Very interesting Ive never read this thought before but tonight iam sitting here blubbing me eyes out cause daughter no1 has just had to put her 2 dogs down after a massive fight and with 2 little gandkids around.... well... you guys know it all. But to see that through all the tough provado hype of aussie men we still all have very soft hearts. I am PROUD to be part of you lot Tonto

Sorry to hear that Tonto:( its gut wrenching loosing a family pet(s) and especialy in such horid curcumstances. Some years back i had to put my beloved dog Shaitan down and driving home from the vet i wasnt up to listening to dj crap on the radio so i put it onto ABC Clasical FM and Dawn Upshore was on and her version of Gorecki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. That has to be the most emotional peice i have ever heard. Even to this day i carnt help my self and have alot of tears when i hear it. A beautiful song:o

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Watching the Titanic and listening to Celine Dion’s singing endlessly makes me cry.

:D

Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Amazing Grace - Gospel

And as you bought up movies Wongo, The Champ, Jon Voight.

HH.

Come ye Sons of Art, magnificent counter tenor piece.

Iron Maiden - The Clansman

This was aparently written after Eric's son was killed after falling out of a window. You can hear the pain when he sings it.



Tears In Heaven

by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?

I'll find my way
Through night and day,
'Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven.

Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.

Beyond the door,
There's peace I'm sure,
And I know there'll be no more
Tears in heaven.

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

G'Day Ppl,

Quite a few Songs by Leonard Cohen:cool:
OK!!
I'm still playing 'Catch UP'

for some reason,
many Middle Eastern DOCTORS like his songs as well:confused:

My Heart Surgeon got me on to his music:o

Yep, been listening to 'Walk in the Light Green' for the last few days - Must have been the Gin on the week-end...
You wouldn't let ya mates down until they had ya dusted off

Saw Anzac Day parade in George St year before last - was unbelievable, never seen it in that light before.

Pub with no Beer.. :-

The concept of it all still gives me nightmares... :C

The one song that makes me almost cry every time is Sunday Morning Coming Down, by Johnny Cash. This was one of my fathers favorite songs (other than the Purple People Eater) and the one that I had played at his funeral.

I have been a Johnny Cash fan for years was brought up on the "older" music, and the videoclip he made of Hurt is also hard to watch.

Anything by Cyndi Lauper... usually tears of angst and frustration, especially if I can't get to the on/off switch. :o

I get a bit misty over "Procession of the Sardar" by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. 'Twas my late Dad's favourite, and now one of mine. Very stirring march music; best played at maximum volume. Similar for "Amazing Grace" of course. A while back someone mentioned bagpipe music scaring the bejabbers out of the enemy; as I understand it, that's why they used it.

Joe

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G'Day Ppl,

Quite a few Songs by Leonard Cohen:cool:
OK!!
I'm still playing 'Catch UP'

for some reason,
many Middle Eastern DOCTORS like his songs as well:confused:

My Heart Surgeon got me on to his music:o

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I would have thought Mr Cohen would have apealled more to a shrink!
I must admit to being a LC fan as well.

For me its :

The Randall Knife by Guy Clark.

Bagpipes send a chill up the back of my neck. I'm listening to some right now as I type this (Under the Milkyway by The Church - have to learn it for a gig).

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

Words by Eric Bogle but I prefer the version sung by Doug Ashdown - a very great, underrated and often forgotten Aussie singer

Anything by Celine Dion makes me cry


........... not because they are masterpeices but because I can not believe that some dumb-ass record exec thinks that her music is original and worthy. OMG:oo:

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Anything by Celine Dion makes me cry


........... not because they are masterpeices but because I can not believe that some dumb-ass record exec thinks that her music is original and worthy. OMG:oo:

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AGREED!


ANY country noise (I refuse to call it music!) makes me cry because it makes me realise how many stoopid people are out there!
;)

"19" makes me misty and Harry Chapins' music makes me think....

Up here in Qld we play both sorts of music!! Country ..... and .............. western. Sad but true.

The music of "Row row row" to the lyrics "Oh Where from..." Thats a half a Kleenex box every time i hear it:-

pretty much any hym at the Dawn Service especially Abide with me. And the Last Post. Everyone should go to a dawn service once in their lives.
:C

Cheers
Michael

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pretty much any hym at the Dawn Service especially Abide with me. And the Last Post. Everyone should go to a dawn service once in their lives.
:C

Cheers
Michael

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definetly.

Anything from Neil Diamond makes me cry tears of blood.
That mongrel should have been thrown of a cliff before he learnt to sing.

My brother and I drove from Warren to Brisbane and the only tape in his ute was bloody Neil Diamond. I threw it it out the window by the time we hit Guyra.
He got the shitz and we drove the rest of the way with me singing Metallica's Enter Sandman and him constantly telling me to shut the fluck up.

Note to self: Must ring brother and give him the shitz.

drag up an old thread if I may?
I watched Watership Down when I was about 8 then heard 'Bright Eyes' by Art Garfunkel (from the movie) on the radio and cried.
More recently Queen 'Who wants to love forever' brought a tear after the missus left, she's back now though. And I didn't have to sell the house:)

try "Haunted" by Sinead O'Connor and Shane McGowan (from the Pogues)

For me, it's 'We Are One', from the soundtrack of The Lion King 2. We played it at the funeral of our eldest child, Ben, who died of cancer when he was 4. It was his favourite, and very appropriate, and when the lion cub sang his part the whole room balled. I still put it on and cry when I miss him too much; always feel better for it.

'Tears in Heaven', because I can relate to it. It is such a perfect encapsulation of the feeling of losing a child ( and because it came on the radio on the second anniversary of Ben's death, as I was giving birth to his brother Abel, and made me weep and swear even more than I was already).

'Danny Boy', because it's a great old heartbreaker of a song, and because I used to sing "Benny Boy" to get my firstborn to sleep as a baby and it turned out to be a bit too close to the bone.

"Don't Ya (wish your girlfriend was Hot like Me)" because it's so damn awful, and my 7 year old daughter won't stop singing it!:oo:

"You've done us proud" by Slim Dusty, one of my dads favourites, played at his funeral, geez i miss him.