Song guaranteed to bring tears

[TonyF]

Oh, Flum, have to agree there! The version of William McBride I have is by June Tabor and it gets me every time. .

And Eric Bogle singing 'And the Band Played Watzing Matilda', June Tabor's 'King of Rome' and Joe Cocker's 'You are so Beautiful' which I'm having played at my humanist farewell, just for J.

And isn't it interesting how many people here are also folkies ..........

[HeyWayne]

As beefy has already mentioned - Johnny Cash's version of Hurt always brings a lump to my throat - especially the video, you know it was pretty much the last time he and June "performed" together.

Another song I find hard to listen to is Robbie Williams "Nan's Song".
YouTube - Robbie Williams - Nan'S Song
It pretty much describes the relationship I had with my own Nan who died 4 years ago. We played it at her funeral. (I've even had to mute the YouTube link 'cos I started welling up!)

[JanieB]

Since Brian died 2 1/2 years ago, quite a lot of songs can set me off but the major one is "Unchained Melody". I was in a house share with two fellow students when we started going out together and my fellow housemates were into "Soldier, soldier" so were always playing the Robson & Jerome version.

Willy McBride is a very evocative song. Mine, my OH's family and most of my working life have been spent with the military. As such I have lost family members and friends to conflicts. The "War to end wars" then it happened "again and again and again".

I've just listened to it again and the words are "War to end war"

Janie

[TonyF]

Going to have a second go at this ......

Roy Bailey's New Years Eve, a great love song

and for this forum ..........

Tom Paxton, Whos Garden Was This, what we all may be facing in the future if we're not careful and which this place, if no other, really tries to do something about.

[Seahorse]

And Eric Bogle singing 'And the Band Played Watzing Matilda', June Tabor's 'King of Rome' and Joe Cocker's 'You are so Beautiful' which I'm having played at my humanist farewell, just for J.

And isn't it interesting how many people here are also folkies ..........

Going to have a second go at this ......

Roy Bailey's New Years Eve, a great love song

and for this forum ..........

Tom Paxton, Whos Garden Was This, what we all may be facing in the future if we're not careful and which this place, if no other, really tries to do something about.

Oh, you've got good taste Tony! One of the biggest disappointments of my life was when Eric Bogle played in a pub a couple of miles away from me (for anyone who doesn't know, he lives in Australia!) and I couldn't go

[willowstar]

the northern lights of old aberdeen, because I am a scot living in england but my heart is up north. I spent 7 years in studying and working in aberdeen and it just feels like home when I go back.

eva cassidy's version of fields of gold because it was played at my cousins funeral last year, still haven't been able to listen to it yet.

and scotland the brave played by massed pipe bands. the pipes just move me in my core somehow.

[Flummery]

Anyone know the song that goes 'I remember Dublin City in the rare old times' (I don't, but the song is a real lump-in-the-throater for me.)

[everdream78]

Bridge over troubled water - still can't get to the second verse without blubbing

Goodnight Saigon by Billy Joel - still can't get past the first chorus!

Has to be said that hearing Flower of Scotland belted out in a pub before the rugby did me in too - I've never heard god save the queen belted out with the same pride, passion and conviction!

Far too many others to mention!

[HeyWayne]

Anyone know the song that goes 'I remember Dublin City in the rare old times' (I don't, but the song is a real lump-in-the-throater for me.)

This one?

Dublin in the Rare Old Times: Information and Much More from Answers.com

[Birdie Wife]

The Burns poem set to music, "Ae Fond Kiss", reminds me of friends loved and lost. Eva Cassidy's "Songbird" for he same reason. And "All By Myself", can't remember who sung it but it always makes me really sad.

[OverWyreGrower]

Aerosmith's "Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" - first dance at our wedding, can't listen to it without crying my eyes out!

John Lennon's "Imagine" - played at my father's funeral when I was 15. Haven't listened to it since then. OH knows the song well enough to get me out of anywhere if it plays....

[Flummery]

This one?

Dublin in the Rare Old Times: Information and Much More from Answers.com

That's the one Wayne - even reading the lyrics makes me think of lost things - really sad.

[zazen999]

Come Dancing by The Kinks

i have no idea why.

[newby]

I'm such a wateringpot it's difficult to choose, but for some reason, at the moment, John Denver's Somtimes I Feel Like a Sad Song (I think that's the name) is in my head. sniff...

[moggssue]

Hmm, so many, for various reasons, but lets keep it short - Ava Marie, Abide with Me (reminds me of my mum) and Unchained Melody, oh and the theme from the Bodyguard even though I'm not a Whitney fan!