Songs You Can't Sing for Crying

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: Smedley
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 07:26 AM

You'll get us all crying if you tell stories like that, M.

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:50 AM

Another one for purely personal reasons. Fair & Tender Ladies — I have a v nice photo of me singing it at a party in 1958. Whenever my wife showed that pic to anybody she would say "As the flash went off for that photograph it flashed thru my mine 'That's the young man I'm going to marry'"; & so she did - for nearly ½-century. And now she's dead. And so I can't sing it any more for tears. And here they come now...

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:45 AM

Band Played WM 4 me too!

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:26 AM

After 25 years I got to where I could sing The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
Others were:
The Wheelhouse Door.
Ashes on the sea.

I dont sing at all anymore but The Jeannie C did it to me too.

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: Little Robyn
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:18 AM

Eric Bogle's No-man's Land. Also The Band played Waltzing Matilda.
Robyn

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:14 AM

It took me a LONG time to be able to sing 'the Dutchman' without crying. First time out I failed, but the room helped me through!

Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: Stower
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:12 AM

I can now sing Lady Diamond in public. But it took me several months of practice before I could sing it without my voice cracking. I had to keep leaving it and coming back to it. Even now the thought of that story fills me with emotion. It's a similar story to lots of other songs, of course, but in Lady Diamond there is something about the way the story is told that just gets me.

Subject: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 24 Jan 10 - 06:08 AM

This was touched on (perhaps) in the Big Boys Ballads thread, but as no ballad has ever made me choke up with tears whilst singing it (the occasional lump in the throat perhaps) I thought it might be worth a thread on its own.

Time was, I could never get through Bellamy's setting of Danny Deever without cracking up; lately its been Ford O' Kabul River, which I've re-imagined as a doddering old colonel, circa 1960, in his dotage, thinking back to the events of that fateful night in 1879 - about the only thing he can remember, vividly, as he sits by his roaring fire in his crumbling country pile, whilst without the storms roar and the England he fought for steadily goes to the dogs...

The worst one, however, is Hamish Henderson's Banks of Sicily - this never fails to make me a blubbering wreck, stiff upper lip and all, in its depictions of the essential humanity that arises in situations of unimaginable (for me) adversity.

All war songs. Odd that.

What's yours?