Sad sons are my favorite. One of my favorite performers used to call the songs that my friends and I requested "the wrist-slasher set". I love "Waltzing Matilda" by Tom Waites, a good interpretation of "Where have all the Flowers Gone?", that Reba McIntyre song about the little boy whose father killed his mother, "Daniel" by Elton John, and, I shamefacedly admit that I wwas in my twenties before I could sing "Puff the Magic Dragon" to my little cousins without choking up (I'm still in my twentiesw, so it wasn't long ago). Also "You are My Sunshine"; that damn Oscar Mayer commercial song makes it look so cute, then you hear the second verse ahnd it's just wrenching.