Sad Songs

[thesecondlaw]

Are there any songs that ALWAYS make you well up, no matter how often you listen to them? I've got three.
Emma by Hot Chocolate
Cat's On The Cradle by Harry Chapin
Alone Again (naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

[DaisyNonna]

Danny Boy

[janbee]

She's out of my life by Michael Jackson

[Butterbun]

Wind beneath my wings (memories of someone much loved)
I'll put you together again

[shaneystar2]

Dance with my Father Again.. Luther Vandross
One day I'll fly away ..Randy Crawford
The Living Years ..Mike and the Mechanics

[237SJ]

They don`t make me cry but :

Do What You Gotta Do and Still Waters by the Four Tops
Have You Seen Her by the Chi lites
Oh Yeah by Roxy Music

[237SJ]

Oh, and Rainy Night In Georgia by Randy Crawford

[bhg481]

Not a well-known one - B side of Matchstick Men

[rockyracoon]

Danny Boy
Arms Of An Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Going Home - the hymn
If You're Looking For A Way Out - Odyssey
Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
Silent Night

There was also a hymn that the kids sang at school at their leavers assembly, that made me awfully sad. Can't remember what it's called :(

[mushroom25]

Mike & The Mechanics - Another Cup of Coffee

[VHG]

The song "Story of My Life" was in the musical Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein but it was cut for some reason.

It is not a very well know song but I find it very sad, about a girl who looks everywhere for happiness but then the "rain comes falling down" and spoils it.

Sung here (brilliantly) by Judy Blazer.

If it was better known I could imagine people like Barbra Streisand doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aKkTdRMyyE

[The Builder]

"I can't make you love me" - Bonnie Raitt

"Goodbye" - Steve Earle

"And the band played Waltzing Matilda" - Eric bogle

[mightymouse]

Trains and Boats and Planes.........any version.

Goin' Back.......Dusty Springfield.

La Vie en Rose.......Edith Piaf.....played at my Mother's funeral.

Not a song, but an opera excerpt.......Nightwatchman's chorus from Richard Strauss' "Die Frau Ohne Schatten"

[Pete65]

Pickin' a Chicken. Eve Boswell.

[Ken4155]

These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Queen) has a definite degree of poignancy attached to it for obvious reasons.

[cupid04]

Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

Bridge over troubled water

Wonderful world - Louis Armstrong

Love of my life - Queen

Everybody hurts some time

The living years

I will always love you - Dolly Parton

[nailit]

"i'll Stand By You" The Pretenders...
Me and my girls song the first time I got sent to prison....she didnt! Grrr

[cupid04]

....one more.

Something wonderful - Carly Simon

[PankySmooch]

Carole King, You've got a friend

[askyourgran]

Tender falls the Rain by Randy Crawford.
Songbird by Eva Cassidy

[Prudie]

Boyz 11 Men End of the Road
Gloria Estefan (love her) I can't stay away from you