Songs that bring a tear...

[Loulou]

That song from 'The Snowman'

Especially when sung at a funereal by a tweleve year old boy .....did it for me!!

[downsouth]

The late Luther Vandross' Dance with my Father - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eZPDofY_wY8

[capt_birdseye]

I shouldn't agree about Wires but I do! Came out about the time my eldest was tiny and always brought a lump to my throat. A-hem (hold it together birdseye).

I have to strongly disagree about Flaming Lips, sorry Mockney, I find that one extremely nauseating "do you realize that one day everyone you know will die?" Well, duh, yeah.

[mattham]

Glad I'm not the only one who goes a bit wobbly at the Flaming Lips. Also Mercury Rev (Opus 40) and most of Elliot Smith's last album. And the Stones; Moonlight Mile and Let it Loose...just gets the hairs on the back of your neck.

[mockney piers]

Each to their own captain. I don't think the intention is to state the obvious, it's more about carpe diem, about not taking those around you for granted but letting them know you love them and you care. I think it's a heartwarming song.

Agree about Mercury Rev. Opus 40 is a gorgeous song. The Flaming Lips credit them with paving the way for their own revival.

I thought Vermillion on the last album was great too.

[lozzyloz]

I dropped the complete works of Beethoven on my foot . . . . . . sob!

[capt_birdseye]

Moonlight Mile (tu) Mercury Rev (tu)(tu)

[TillieTrotter]

The Lips....fab choice.

Downsouth's Luther choice gets me as it came out around the same time as my Grandfather died.

I'm not your superwoman (dont remember who sings it) that can bring me to my knees.

And many many more....!

[capt_birdseye]

There's no one quite like Grandma by St Winnifred's Choir. Leaves me sobbing like an abandoned baby.

[snorky]

every time i hear the revamped Candle in the wind By that master musician and style Icon, Elton John, it brings a tear to my eye

a tear of utter abject uncontrollable indescribable rage(6)

[mockney piers]

If the littlest hobo doesn't do it....

[Keef]

LOL >:D< To both the above posts.

Murcury Rev - The Dark is Rising

Hated Wires when it first came out, because his voice doesn't really do anything at all for me. However, the song has grown on me over time, and the sentiment can't be questioned.

[Keef]

Also meant to mention Elgar's Nimrod.

I remember playing it in an orchestra at the end of a concert in memory of a teacher that had been killed in a car accident, and it really really was so moving!

[Jah Lush]

Jim Reeves - Blue Side Of Lonesome.

[mattham]

I should have remembered Nimrod...played at my wedding and still does the trick. And also The night they drove old Dixie down (the Band) ? not played at my wedding but same effect.

Seem to remember Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev are linked by one member *googles furiously*...ah yes: Jonathan Donahue ? left Lips to join Rev.

[PeckhamRose]

Level 42 The song about saying goodbye and leaving, gets me. Can't remember the title.

Cat Stevens Wild World

And when I was a baby I always cried when Mum played a song bby the Andrew Sisters called I'll be with you in Apple Blossom Time. When Spinal Tap came out Chris Guest explained that Lick My Love Pump was written in A minor, quite the saddest key. That makes sense. I think Apple Blossom Time is in A minor. Could be wrong tho. Maybe it made me cry as a baby because my Mum held me in her arms and squeezed me as SHE cried.

XTC Dictionary Song

Billy Joel Honesty

Muse - poem for soldiers

sniff sniff

[spadetownboy]

Brendan Wrote:

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> This one has been known to make me come over all

> dorothy.

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> The Pogues ? Waltzing Matilda

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> But only when I get home late at night from the

> pub after having drunk lots and lots like a Real

> Man mind.

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> Hope that link works I?m in the office so can?t

> test it.

on a similar vein for anti war songs try the green fields of france (willie mcbride)as sung by the fureys and davy arthur, no irish wedding is complete without a rendition. but if its songs to make the eyes moist danny boy by the one and only daniel o donnell hits the spot for me and as for pal of my cradle days by ann breen well pass me a tissue.

[Keef]

Lick my love pump was in D Minor ;-)

[Jah Lush]

George Jones - She Thinks I Still Care.

Just because I ask a friend about her

Just because I spoke her name somewhere

Just because I rang her number by mistake today

She thinks I still care.

Just because I hog the same old places

Where the memory of her lingers everywhere

Just because I'm not the happy guy I used to be

She thinks I still care.

But if she's happy thinking I still need her

Then let that silly notion bring her cheer

But how could she ever be so foolish

Oh where did she get such an idea

Just because I ask a friend about her

Just because I spoke her name somewhere

Just because I saw her, then went all to pieces

She thinks I still care

She thinks I still care.

[Brendan]

spadetownboy Wrote:

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> but if its songs to

> make the eyes moist danny boy by the one and only

> daniel o donnell hits the spot for me and as for

> pal of my cradle days by ann breen well pass me a

> tissue.

I make people cry when I try to sing Danny Boy but it is because of my inability to hit the high notes or get the accent right.

Children throw stones and it sets the dogs a-howling too.

[Jah Lush]

My dad used to sing Danny Boy to me as a child.

[dave]

The Fields of Athenry, The Green Fields of France, and Danny Boy (Londonderry Air?) all make me cry because they remind me of my father. In relation to the first one, I hadn't fully appreciated the power of this until a few months after his death when I was at a London Irish game and they started to sing it. Reduced me to bits in seconds.

And another vote for the Flaming Lips - wasn't that song written about a fan who had died? Or is it something else I am thinking of?

Sometimes, as a man, it's hard to beat the simple emotional appeal of a country song - I have a soft spot for the original (Dolly) version of I Will Always Love You. Me and Bobby McGee is another, and Willie Nelson's version of Always on My Mind.

And I think I am going to stop there...

[Jah Lush]

This one really gets me...

Nick Cave/Barry Adamson - The Sweetest Embrace

Our time is done my love

We've laid it all to waste

One thousand moonlit kisses

can't sweeten this bitter taste

My desire for you is endless

and I'll love you 'till we fall

I just don't love you no more

and that's the sweetest embrace of all

To think we can find happiness

hidden in a kiss

Ah, to think we can find happiness

that's the great mistake there is

There's nothing left to cling to babe

There is nothing left to soil

I just don't want you no more

And that's the sweetest embrace of all

Ooooh where did it begin

When all we did was lose

There's nothing left to win

So lay your weapons down

they serve no purpose in your hands

And if you wanna hold me

Then go ahead and hold me

I won't upset your plans

If it's revenge you want

then take it babe

Or you can walk right out the door

I just don't want you no more

And that's the sweetest embrace of all

Ooooh where did it begin

When all we did was lose

There's nothing left to win

It's over babe

And it really is a shame

We are losers you and me babe

In a rigged and crooked game

My desire for you is endless

And I love you most of all

I just don't want you no more

And that's the sweetest embrace of all.

[monica]

Fields of france by the fureys now that made me weep,reminds me of my Andy,he used to sing it to me.ooohhh im filling up now.

[spadetownboy]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> My dad used to sing Danny Boy to me as a child.

barry mcguigan when he was boxing his da would always sing danny boy from the ring pre-fight,still sends a shiver down my spine thinking about it there wasnt a dry eye in the house.