This Song Makes me Weep

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: meself
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 12:07 PM

"There's a Bridle Hanging on the Wall" (or whatever the title is).

I haven't heard it or cried to it since my mother sang it with me on her knee - but I have no doubt my reaction would be the same if I did hear it again.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 12:13 PM

I have tried several times to get through I Come and Stand at Every Door and can't play it without tearing up and having my voice choke.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 01:56 PM

Just listened to this & blubbed like a baby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhWer8AcppQ

The singer is the late, great Johnny Mizo Dyani, one of the finest double bass players of all time who described this music always as Folk.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: kendall
Date: 23 Jul 10 - 04:34 PM

What bunch of softies!

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: LadyJean
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 12:24 AM

My prep school alma mater, and damned if I know why. I wasn't THAT fond of the place and it includes lines like "We 'vere the glory of thy name the ardor of thy youth. We sing our praises to thy fame, thy faith thy hope thy truth." By the time we have reached "vere the glory", I will be choking.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: LadyJean
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 12:28 AM

So, I tried to remember the second verse to the thing, which I hadn't thought of in a couple of decades and the last line came back to me, "May we be faithful to thy trust and worthy of thy past. That we may honor ______ school as long as time shall last." and started to tear up. Damned if I know why.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 12:51 AM

A bunch of softies? Look who's talkin', Kendall. If somebody sings a sentimental dog song, how do you think you'll respond?

Hey, I like dogs, too.

...He's gone where the good doggies go.....


-Joe-

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 01:08 PM

..then someone found him dead beneath a table in a pub with a collar and a chain clutched in his hand...Old Gilbert, saddest dog song I know.
Gilbert was drunk and his dog was loose and unlicensed. While he was boozing they impounded his dog and he spent the rest of his life searching for his old track mate. sniff

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jul 10 - 04:35 PM

Sorry, that was me. I keep dropping my cookie.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 04:57 AM

I never thought you had it in you Kendall! There is enough material there for a real turkey of a song!

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 05:04 AM

You should hear the whole song before you condemn it.

Mt the GM, your CD is on its way to Old Blighty. Thanks for your order.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 09:38 AM

M any thanks Kendall ~~ greatly look forward to it.

~Michael~

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 10:11 AM

Now I ain't condemning the song Kendall. I have a sort of grudging admiration for folks who can sing - let alone write - stuff like "Old Shep" and the rest with a straight face. I am reminded of Oscar Wilde's comment, "You would have to have a heart of stone to read of the death of Little Nell without laughing".

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 01:12 PM

Little Nell doesn't move me either.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Southport grump
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 02:02 PM

Somewhere over the rainbow.

By the late Eva Cassidy - never fails.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,TedM
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 02:23 PM

Steve Goodman's My Old Man

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Maggie O
Date: 25 Jul 10 - 06:00 PM

I can't believe no ones mentioned the other great Eric Bogle song, The Green Fields of France.
Finbar Fury made me cry singing it (twice), but strangely enough Bogle himself didn't.

I just quote the last verse:

And I can't help but wonder, young Willie McBride,
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause?"
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?
Well the suffering, the sorrow, the glory, the shame
The killing, the dying, it was all done in vain,
For Willie McBride, it all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 05:58 AM

Maggie that verse gets to me too.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: howbe on
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 06:54 AM

Hello,My first posting on this site

Agree with the tear inducing qualities of many of the songs already mentioned and would like to add a song called Joe Peel which I think was written by Pete Bond, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
I first heard it sung by June Tabor and have sung it many times myself but still have trouble getting through the last verse without my voice begining to crack up with the emotion of it all.Often wondered if the song is based on a real persons life or an anthem for the passing of working culture and industry( maybe thats just me though ) Either way a beautifully sad song.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,frogette
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 07:12 AM

tried to read the thread but there are so many. Did anybody mention Les Sullivan at Bude Folk Festival sang No Tengo Mas Que Dar Te (video on the web from the Eric Bogle concert) followed by his new song Sands of Time and the place was awash. Won him the Ron Bader award for best performance too

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: ClaireBear
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 11:29 AM

What is it about world war? "Dancing at Whitsun," both "No Man's Land" and "The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda," and "Christmas in the Trenches" have all made me cry. So does Dave Webber's beautiful, painful "Normandy Orchards":

"They say you can still hear the village-hall band,
Grey, ghostly couples still glide round the floor,
But Normandy orchards were waiting to welcome
New partners for death in the mad dance of war."

There's one song not war related that always makes me weepy in a good way: "The King of Rome" -- a sentimental favorite, though I don't think I've ever heard a rendition that does the song justice..

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 26 Jul 10 - 04:48 PM

I will add my vote to "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" - and mention that the first recording of it that I ever heard was many years ago by an excellent group called Clam Chowder. Still affects me.

There is also "Les Vieux" by Jacques Brel, which in its English translation is known as "The Song of Old Lovers." I find the version recorded years ago by Judy Collins difficult to listen to, even to this day.

But, the song at the top of my list isn't a folk song, but Bette Midler's "The Wind Beneath My Wings." My dear wife passed four years ago; she liked Bette Midler and this song always reminds me of her. If I hear it, I will leave the room. Even thinking about it is quite difficult.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: LadyJean
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 12:01 AM

Peter S. Beagle, author of "The Last Unicorn" and "A Fine and Private Place" was filking guest of honor at the local science fiction convention last weekend. I got to hear him sing. When he sang a song he'd written about his stepdaughter, Victoria, he choked up, as did quite a few of us in the audience.
He did ask us not to tell Victoria, but there's every chance she doesn't mudcat.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Carolin
Date: 27 Jul 10 - 08:40 PM

I think it is a lot to do with the person singing, and for me it was Arthur Howard in his 80' singing 'Merry Mountain Child'.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Jul 10 - 02:49 PM

"There Were Roses," by Tommy Sands (i think)
"Murder in the City" by the Avett Brothers

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 28 Jul 10 - 03:22 PM

olddude's 'Hello in there' by John Prine I used to do, when I disciplined myself not to get choked up.

and this ......
This one is a good one for that!...make it to the end

this works for some, too


GfS

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Jul 10 - 06:16 PM

"I Wish You Were Here" by Malvina Reynolds.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: Crowhugger
Date: 28 Jul 10 - 08:15 PM

Yet another blubberer here when I hear (forget trying to sing) 'Christmas In the Trenches' and 'The Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and many others already mentioned.

I'll add 'Un Canadien Errant' to the list, maybe partly because I have a soft spot for that bad time of Quebec history which was echoed in Ontario about the same time--farmers, labourer et al. going hungry, Family Compact & friends getting richer, good old taxation without representation at work. And violence to keep down the protests of course. I choke up every darn time I sing it.

~CH

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Tinker from Chicago
Date: 29 Jul 10 - 05:14 PM

Michael Smith's "I Brought My Father With Me."

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: raredance
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 01:07 AM

This one by Connie Kaldor

DOWN TO A RIVER (ALAN'S SONG)
dedicated to the memory of Alan Stein

There are dinners, there is music
There is laughter, there are tears
There are memories that go back
Over the years

There are marks made in a life
Like only good friends do
Now I must choose to make a mark
For the things I loved in you

I'll go down to a river
And plant a tree
Something strong, wild and living
Those are my memories
And I'll go up to a mountain
And sing to the stars
Can you hear me
Wherever you are

And there's phone calls and there's crying
And there's clutching to the chest
And there's singing songs and throwing dirt
And laying down to rest
And there's carving words on stone
And making church bells ring
But the river, when it freezes over
Still thaws and runs each spring

So I will go down to a river
And plant a tree
Something strong, wild and living
Those are my memories
And I'll go up to a mountain
And sing to the stars
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Wherever you are

Do you hear the ones who loved you
Who were glad they knew you well
Do the hearts you left that miss you
Ring like a bell

I will go down to a river
And plant a tree
Strong, wild and living
Those are my memories
And I'll go up to a mountain
And sing to the stars
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Wherever you are

Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Can you hear me
Wherever you are


from Small Cafe
©1996 Word of Mouth Music

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Kit Griffiths
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 07:02 AM

"Hey, Sandy" by Harvey Andrews -gets me every time!

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: mikesamwild
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 07:20 AM

Jamie Foyers, sung by Dick Gaughan, because my Dad was also a machinegunner in the British battalion and wounded at Jarama and he survived whereas so many of his comrades didn't . I'm only here because he was lucky and tough.

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST,Dave Hunt
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 09:23 AM

Bill Caddick's King Sun. Fareweel Regality, Several sung by Martyn Wyndham-Read eg Eldorado, Sleepy Lagoon

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 09:24 AM

sorry - should have been 'Reedy Lagoon'

Subject: RE: This Song Makes me Weep
From: MMario
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 10:24 AM

Grace