The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #12357   Message #96588
Posted By: Pete Curry
18-Jul-99 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: The Saddest Song of All
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All
This topic should be a Web site all its own! Some of my favorites have already been mentioned (eg. "Who Knows Where The Time Goes," "Waltzing Matilda"). Others include: "The Grand Tour" by George Jones (which ends, "When you leave you'll see the nursery/She left me, without mercy/Taking nothing but my baby and my mind"); "Sad Songs & Waltzes" by Willie Nelson; "Yesterday Just Passed My Way Again" and "My Wishing Room" by Lefty Frizzell; "Swiss Cottage Place" by Mickey Newburry; "No One Will Ever Know" by Ronnie Milsap or Hank Snow; "Mexican Divorce" by Ry Cooder (written by Burt Bacharach & Bob Hillard, orig. recorded by The Drifters); "Afraid to Care" by Jack Green; "The Gypsy" and "Time Out For Tears" by The Ink Spots; and last, because I'm basically a child of the 1950s, the following by Lee Andrews & The Hearts never fail to choke me up--"Why Do I," "I'm Sorry Pillow," and "Try The Impossible." Phew... I feel better now.