What Songs Make You Cry

When I was reading the thread What Movies Make You Cry, I couldn't help but wonder what songs make me cry. Dozens of classical pieces make me weep especially Beethoven. However I was thinking more along the lines of popular music or music with lyrics. So what tunes make you weep? Just some crying trivia..I'm reading a book, 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill. Turns out Churchill was a copious weeper...did you Brits know that? I, for some reason trust people who cry easy. Here's a few of mine...


What a Wonderful World-- Louis Armstrong

In My Life--The Beatles

Tomorrow--from the musical Annie, even though I just made a bit of fun of it on another thread

O' Sacred Head Now Wounded--16th Century hymn

American Tune--Simon and Garfunkle

Onward Christian Soldiers--lol for an agnostic I love a lot of hymns

Oh and I almost forgot another hymn...Come All Ye Faithful. When carolers would come to sing in the hospital during Christmas, I would find an empty room to hide in when the sang that, cause I would cry like a baby..big heaping sobs.

Barbara In my Life is one that chokes me up as well

The christmas carol, Silent night

BTW i didn't know that about Churchill?!

A lot of songs make me cry, most are country.

There is a new song out called "How do you get that Lonely?"
I don't know the name of the guy that sings it, but it's about a kid that commits suicide.

Another one is Tim McGraw, "Dont' take the Girl"

i cry everytime i hear:

the good stuff by kenny chesney
all i ask of you from the phantom of the opera
that reba song i think it's he gets that from you?
at last by etta james
heaven by warrant
canon in d

ok i'm a pile of goo for cheesy love songs

oh and i almost forgot, i am mine by pearl jam

Songs that make me cry are as follows:bawl:


Operator- Jim Croce
Amazed- Lone Star
Already there-Lone Star
Butterfly Kisses- Jim Brickman
If you're not the One- Daniel Beddingford

Butterfly Kisses gets me every time.
Christmas Shoes, it's a country Christmas song about a child who wants to buy shoes for his mother, so she'll look pretty "when Mama meets Jesus tonight" (Geesh! I just think of the song and get all teary!!)
Our National Anthem
Proud to Be an American by Lee Greenwood.

Gosh, I know there's more but those are the ones I can think right now. Being a sentimental and watery Cancer...I cry at the drop of a pin!

Hands down, every single time, no matter where I am when I hear it:
Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton.

This song was playing on the radio when I drove my kitty home in a box from the vet on April 9, 1992. it has been my anthem to kitties on the RB ever since.

Originally Posted by valanhb

Butterfly Kisses gets me every time.
Christmas Shoes, it's a country Christmas song about a child who wants to buy shoes for his mother, so she'll look pretty "when Mama meets Jesus tonight" (Geesh! I just think of the song and get all teary!!)
Our National Anthem
Proud to Be an American by Lee Greenwood.

Gosh, I know there's more but those are the ones I can think right now. Being a sentimental and watery Cancer...I cry at the drop of a pin!

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The National Anthem is a good one, however I get real teary over "My Country Tis of Thee"...reminds me of every Friday Assembly in grade school when we had to wear red, white and blue. Of course that means I love God Save the Queen as well! The initial drum roll to God Save the Queen is a real killer,

Oh Barbara!, what about Land of Hope and Glory!

Makes the hairs on my neck stand up does that one!

I'll Be seeing You-I don't know who it's by, it was my parent's favorite song.
It's Been Awhile-Staind
The Other Kind-Steve Earle
Coat From The Cold, The Randall Knife, Let Him Roll-Guy Clark
There are a lot more, music evokes emotion in me far more than movies or books.

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Oh Barbara!, what about Land of Hope and Glory!

Makes the hairs on my neck stand up does that one!

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Oh yes Susan, my dear sweet Elgar...I have a last nite at The Proms dvd...must have played it a dozen times!

I'll Go To My Grave Lovin' You. by The Statler Bros.
You Are The Wind Beneath My Wings I dunno who the artist is on that one.
Loving Her Was Easier Than Anything I've Ever Done Before. Perry Como

I don't know the name of this one, but it is about two people meeting for the final signing of papers for a divorce and the words are ...well then, go ahead, sign your name, and I'll be on my way . . ." It really is sad. Does anyone know the name of it and who the artist is ? ?

Most of these songs remind me of how much I love my wife, Betty, and how I would feel should I lose her. She is truly my world and I would not want to go on without her.

By the way, I tell her this from time to time.

Leonard

Though personally ooposed to Bush's war, it's the new slew of patriotic songs that get me: American Soldier, Letters from Home, Where Were You, etc.
I also love I Hope You Dance, Then They Do, and There Goes My Life (all great country songs about raising children)
But what gets me most, of course, is the Les Mis soundtrack: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, A Little Fall of Rain, On My Own, Castle on a Cloud, I Dreamed a Dream...
Basically, any sappy song that gets me at the right time of the month can trigger the waterworks

Susan I love National Anthems (guess I'm easily led) I also love the socialists anthem, The Internationale. I believe I first heard it as a teen or early twenties when I saw the movie Reds, (Warren Beatty) There was this marvelous crowd scene during the Russian revolution when the anthem played. I wanted to jump up on the screen and join the revolution! I've avoided seeing the film again only because with all these years past, I am afraid I would not be able to reproduce those feelings and I'd feel let down.

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Most of these songs remind me of how much I love my wife, Betty, and how I would feel should I lose her. She is truly my world and I would not want to go on without her.

By the way, I tell her this from time to time.

Leonard

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Leonard, that is the loveliest thing I have heard all day. I was not so lucky, and should've spoken up sooner in my case. Bless you!
Elizabeth

You are the wind beneath my wings bette midler,We played that at my first hubby's funeral , and I will alway's Love you Whitney Huston, that's the one I want played at mine, because that's how I feel about everyone..

Alot of songs..
Beautiful In My Eyes, by Joshua Kaddison(?)
Some instrumental stuff by Enigma & Moodswings-there is a beauty in it that is so pure it makes me cry.

In addition to The Star Spangled Banner, I choke up at God Bless America. Amazing Grace, too.

Another popular songs are:
Desparado by the Eagles
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
Like China by Phil Collins.

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Time in a Bottle

There's probably a million more but I can't think of any more right now.

House of Pain--by Faster Pussycat
I Don't Wanna Cry--by Mariah Carey (I know, that's pretty ironic)
Anytime--by Brian McKnight