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Thread #126790 Message #3412899
Posted By: Rob Naylor
02-Oct-12 - 03:40 AM
Thread Name: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
Subject: RE: Songs You Can't Sing for Crying
One that gets me every time is MacColl's "The Joy Of Living". It'll be sung at my funeral but I've never been able to sing it myself without choking up. Sometimes I can't even hear it. A friend I was travelling up to Wales with to climb Glyder Fach put it on my car's CD (I think she thought the lyrics would be "appropriate"!). I was driving along with tears streaming and eventually had to pull over and stop. She was astounded as she'd never considered me as someone who might cry "in public".
Another one that gets me (I can sing it but have to be very careful not to choke up) is "Poverty Knock"...in particular the verse "Sometimes a shuttle flies aht, and gi's sum poor woman a claht". My mum, a former mill girl, used to sing this to me when I was a toddler, way before it was "released" as a recording. She had a huge scar on her head where she'd been hit by a shuttle, another one on her arm and 2 badly set fingers that had also been broken by an escaping shuttle.