What's your ultimate 'tear-jerker'?

[Answerprancer]

(Song wise)

[4getmenot]

Lovely song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab4VRWX8y1A

I loved her first

[redcrx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLlDOOVZ1HQ
never fails to make me cry

as does the link that 4get put up, by heartland

[redcrx]

came out as link rather than embed

[topman9thnov]

randy van warner....you left me just when i needed you most.

[tamborine]

my late OHs fav - wish I'd asked Y ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4xALSUysc

[zzxxee]

styx.............come sail away

[rowanwitch]

old and wise Alan Parsons Projest
My love my life Abba
too Happy Tracey Thorne
love on the Rocks Neil Diamond/Barbra Streisand

and for very different reasons

Henryk Gorecki Symphony No.3 Sorrowful songs

[Bbbananas]

Many, depending on my mood.

Always on My Mind - Elvis or Willie Nelson
Softly as I Leave You - Frank Sinatra
Fix You -- Coldplay
In the Living Years - Mike & the Mechanics
You Raise Me Up - Darren the Plumber

[Bbbananas]

The Onion Song never fails to make my eyes water...

[Backdrifter]

Nice going Mark. First thread I've seen that mentions Peter Hammill, and an obscure old Genesis track like Snowbound. Not quite with you on the latter though - of the more romantic ones on that album I'd go for Undertow, or preferably Many Too Many - always one of my absolute favourites of theirs, and so overlooked. I did well up when they finished their 2007 reunion show with The Carpet Crawlers, Collins's touching intro to it - "We're finishing with this next one, which we think is what Genesis is all about".

I welled up last year watching Radiohead perform Reckoner. I have no idea what the song is even about, but something about the music and the plaintive vocal get to me.

I agree with two that have been mentioned - Lara's Theme, which was played at my Dad's funeral and was one of his favourite tunes (I'm getting emotional now just typing that), and Puff The Magic Dragon, which must be one of the most heart-rending evocations of growing up and the loss of childhood wonder.

[zzxxee]

The river ,,, bruce springsteen

[kawakiri]

Bruce Springsteen Secret Garden
Nils Lofgren Shine Silently

[rowanwitch]

forgot one that is shivers down spine as well

I'll walk through the Snow barefoot --------- k.d. lang
from the soundtrack of the film salmonberries...just for the wolf howl she does that is so full of loneliness and longing

[andy-hughes]

Amazing isn't it?

I, like most of you, have read people's choices, and my reactions vary from 'Yep, agree with you there ...' to 'Are you serious ...!'

It is very subjective - but mine are - on no special order -

'Always On My Mind' - Willie Nelson
'The River' - Bruce Springsteen
'If You Go Away' - Dusty Springfield
'The Soldier' - Harvey Andrews
'A New England' - Billy Bragg

I have seen the first and last performed respectively at Glastonbury, and at Beautiful Days this weekend, and by the end of each, I was wiping tears away.

Any and all of these make me cry - and i could make up several CD's worth of others as well - most cathartic.

[nextqueen]

Sail On by the Commodores/Lionel Richie does it for me ' i'm giving you back your name.......'etc

[funnygirl]

Nothing compares to you by sinead o'connor always does it for me!

[Sqad]

"Walk Away" Mat Monro...............the times that I have got rid of women with this song.....works every time.

In fact I am "filling up" now just typing it :-(

"We should have met some years ago, but for your sake I say, walk away please go"

That line made me feel better "dumping them"

[Bbbananas]

pmsl you two....

Not even Douglas Bader, or even that dog Smudge popping his clogs? (Or in Bader's case, having to throw away one of this clogs....?)