Song that make you weep

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: matai
Date: 12 May 04 - 09:12 AM

Fifteen Months   Joan Baez

The cats are sleeping here in the autumn sun
Your dog has flushed a deer and he's on the run
And the coffee cup is cold
And the morning's feeling very old

Fifteen months of time my man's been gone
A second winter now is coming on
And our fates could all be worse
But sometimes I still must curse my own

And hello
I wish you well
Where you sleep
All in your cell

As for friends I can't complain
They've been good to me
The fires buring bright, they've left wood for me
And the roof has been repaired
And I thank them for the love they've shared

You see there's really nothing wrong
I've just got the blues
Cos if you give a damn, you're going to pay some dues
But if you see the game we're in
Like I do you'll know in time we'll win

And hello......

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: s6k
Date: 12 May 04 - 09:16 AM

i like it

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: matai
Date: 12 May 04 - 09:44 AM

(not finished)

So time give me a break of a week or more.
My head is reeling and my back is sore
And the baby cries for me
And i think I'll walk by the sea alone.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Hawker
Date: 12 May 04 - 09:57 AM

I find lots of songs very moving in certain circumstances! I think one of the most emotional for me is Christmas 1914 - utterly moving! also I am still struggling not to cry at a couple in the new Cornwall Songwriters production, Unsung Heroes - I am sure when it goes on the road you will understand why!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: LindsayInWales
Date: 12 May 04 - 12:24 PM

"Forever Autumn" by Justin Hayward - I first heard it on the day my fiance was killed in a motorcycle accident, 26 years ago this July

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 12 May 04 - 12:39 PM

"The ladies go dancing at Whitsun" invariably.
Stan Rogers' "Lock keeper" and "Last watch on the Midland" and also "Lies".
Eric Bogle's "As if he knows" and "Gift of years".
Pete Atkin's "Thirty year man".
Les Sullivan's "Roses of No Man's land".
Everly Bros "Sealed with a kiss".

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Mark Dowding
Date: 12 May 04 - 01:23 PM

Normandy Orchards by Keith Marsden. I was a blubbering wreck at the end of it when I heard it on "Doin' the Manch" I eventually learnt it and if I'm not careful when I sing it now I still fill up and count the spots on the carpet to pull myself together!
"Joe Peel" by Peter Bond is another one - Someone asked me to do that one night and I just got to the bit "The church was filled to overflowing" when I had to close my eyes rather tightly to stop myself weeping unconsolably.
I've recorded "Dancing at Whitsun" and "Christmas 1914" and when I first heard the final mix that Chris Harvey did, Alison Younger's backing vocals came in at a certain point on both songs that made my arms come up in goosebumps. Thanks for that Ali!
My Dad recites "To Sarah" and "Dad's Medals" at our local folk club - two poems by Cliff Gerrard of St Helens. I have to go out of the room or when he does them - sorry Dad but they just have that effect on me.

Cheers
Mark

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Rasener
Date: 12 May 04 - 01:37 PM

El Greko
Dont you mean Sealed with a kiss by Bryan Hyland?

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 12 May 04 - 01:40 PM

That also, Les 8-)

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: beardedbruce
Date: 13 May 04 - 02:56 AM

"I'll give you a daisy a day, dear"

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Colin Smith
Date: 13 May 04 - 07:53 AM

There are a few for me...
The Band played Waltzing Matilda
Deirdre's Lament by Heather Alexander (I sang it at my Grandmothers funeral)
Fiddlers Green (Grandpa was a deep sea fisherman)
James Connally (either too much empathy,or there's a past life to blame)
The Year Clayton Delaney Died, by Tom T Hall(i think)
and I know that if I want to reduce my lass to a blubbering mess all I have to do is sing Broad Black Brimmer or The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Colin

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 13 May 04 - 09:20 AM

Land o The Leal - the fiddle on the Silly Wizard recording especially

Old Brown Dog - Ralph McTell

Dancing at Whitsun for my great aunt Em who was one of those ladies

Joe Peel - Peter Bond. I usually get to "you'd never have believed if you'd seen" before the jaw starts to wobble

R

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Sir Roger de Beverley
Date: 13 May 04 - 09:22 AM

Oh, and Home Lads Home

R