Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Peter T. Date: 23 Jul 99 - 01:45 PM Another Art T. candidate for saddest song might be "Our Hour (The Puppy Love Song)" or "Laura", both by Spike Jones and His Musical Depreciation Revue. "Our Hour" will bring tears to the eyes, and howls from the family, pooch and all. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Walrus Date: 23 Jul 99 - 02:32 PM GeorgeH, Do you have any details of the CD "We Died in Hell..."? It sounds interesting, is it still available? By the bye,"Roses of No-Man's-Land" is by Lyn McDonald I have vague memories of my Mother singing the song, "Roses of No Man's Land", I presume that she'd learned it from her father, a Great War veteran. Regards Walrus
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Peter T. Date: 23 Jul 99 - 02:43 PM "through the War's great curse, Stands the Red Cross nurse -- She's the Rose of No Man's Land!"(my father used to sing this when tipsy) yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Bill in Alabama Date: 23 Jul 99 - 02:58 PM Ferrera--I was going to mention "Faded Coat of Blue" and "The Vacant Chair". Much of my solo show includes those great old 1860-era sobbers. I also thought of "Little Joe," "The Orphan Child" and "That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine." My friend Bobby Horton performs "Kennesaw Line" on one of his albums, and it is practically the only non-traditional song he does. I can't remember who wrote it, but it is a powerful (and sad) song based on the experiences of a young Tennesseean in the War Between the States as related in a personal memoir titled *Company Aytch.* |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Peter T. Date: 23 Jul 99 - 05:01 PM "Kennesaw Line" is by Don Oja-Dunaway, Floridian. yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Legal Eagle Date: 23 Jul 99 - 06:54 PM Richard Cory Annie McElvie Graveyard Blues Laszlo Feyer forgotten name - lament of the woman married to the drinking man she still loves had a heart so warm - ended his days in a rented flat My youngest son Close the coal house door The miner's lament |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Pete Curry Date: 23 Jul 99 - 08:40 PM For Cairo Waltz: The actual title of the Reba McEntire song you mentioned is "The Greatest Man I Never Knew." |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: DonMeixner Date: 25 Jul 99 - 10:05 AM Eric Bogle's "The Leaving of Nancy" Ralph McTell's(?) "The Setting" Bill Destler's Song, the title I don't know. ."Maybe you'll know when you see my shuttered windows, May be you'll know when no one takes the mail, Come along spring Lord and I'll be in the country, Come along fall and this house will be for sale." Stan Roger's "Last Watch on The Midlands"
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Snookadive Date: 25 Jul 99 - 11:11 AM If you want to squeeze out a few listen to "Bees Wing" by Richard Thompson, "West Coast of Clare" Andy Irvine (Planxtys' first album) or Arlos' rendtion of " Victor Jara" . They always get to me. Snookadive |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: emily rain Date: 25 Jul 99 - 06:06 PM WyoWoman,
hope you're still interested in "ya viene el cativo"... my webhost was bought up by yahoo and i had to go in and re-set my account. therefore, posting the song to my page took considerably longer than a minute! it's there now, at hope that link works.
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: katlaughing Date: 25 Jul 99 - 06:51 PM Emily, You have an absolutely stunning voice! I just listened to all three of your samples and loved them. Thanks so much for the link. Hope you get over to the Mudcat tavern to give them a sample, too.:-) katlaughing |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: WyoWoman Date: 25 Jul 99 - 07:57 PM Oh, Emily. That was great! Our voices would work beautifully together. Let's do a duet over at the campfire or the tavern. Any ideas? WW |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Mark Clark Date: 25 Jul 99 - 11:18 PM Katlaughing, I sure agree with your assessment of Emily's tracks. I'd pay to hear more of that any time. I also agree with your choice of "Little Joe The Wrangler." Getting squashed to a pulp is sad in anyone's book. - Mark |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: katlaughing Date: 26 Jul 99 - 12:24 AM Mark, I STILL can't sing it in public! Too many tears. My mom and dad raised us on it and other cowboy "laments", as well as much other music. Ditto on paying to hear, Emily! kat |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE ENIGMA (Eric Bogle) From: Bugsy Date: 26 Jul 99 - 01:01 AM Sorry PattyG for not getting back sooner, but I've been away for a few days. I don't know if you are familiar with the song "The Enigma" by Eric Bogle, but it concerns a young man who, at a high point of his life, drove his car to the top of a multistory carpark, locked his car, put the keys in his pocket and walked off the edge. The words to it are as follows:
Andrew had a smile on his face
"It's hard to believe," said Andrew's friends,
"I can't believe it's true," said Andrew's wife.
"I don't believe it," Andrew's father said.
"I won't believe it," Andrew's mother cried.
But Andrew had a smile on his face, I have been singing this song for about 10 years and still find it hard to sing. Eric only sings it occasionally when specially requested. I will get back with the words of "Absent Friends" as soon as I can fish out the Album. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Jul 99 - 11:36 AM Hey there--JackwhobeJack, I was reading this long thread when I came across your song/Emmylou request. The song is "Calling My Children Home." You can find the lyrics at Josef Somers Emmylou Harris Dutch Homepage along with about 200 others. I saw her do this onstage with her daughters at one of her "Lilith Fair" appearances. Beautiful and a real tearjerker. catspaw |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Mark Clark Date: 26 Jul 99 - 03:18 PM Kat, I sometimes wish there had been someone to sing me cowboy songs. My dad collected Harry Lauder records and had me trying to sing from "Carmen" by the time I was three. Well, I guess I did have someone to sing me cowboy songs. It was Gene Autry. I'd turn on the old wooden Zenith radio after I was supposed to be asleep and listen to Melody Ranch circa 1950. I loved the music even then though it was wasn't considered "real" music at our house. Needless to say, my own daughters grew up on sad songs, cowboy songs, wobbly songs, and lots of other folk material. I hope someday they will have trouble getting through "Little Joe The Wrangler" for the same reason you have trouble. - Mark |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Bert C. Date: 26 Jul 99 - 04:40 PM I cast my votes for "Love, Me" by Colin Raye, about a boy and his grandfather dealing with the loss of a beloved grandmother. If you get there before I do,Also "The Blizzard" by Jim Reeves. Late that night the storm was goneGeez, I can't even type these out without coming unglued. Bert C. |
Subject: Lyr Add: BLOOD ON THE SADDLE (from Tex Ritter) From: DougR Date: 26 Jul 99 - 04:48 PM Emily: Great voice, beautiful voice! I do believe one of the saddest of all cowboy songs has not been mentioned: "BLOOD ON THE SADDLE." I think part of the words are:
There was blood on the saddle, and blood all around,
A cowboy lay in it, all covered with gore,
Oh pity the cowboy, all bloody and red, Repeat: First verse. Recorded by Tex Ritter. DougR |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Bert Date: 26 Jul 99 - 05:42 PM Ah yes Rita, 'The heart of the Appaloosa' I've got a recording of Allen Damron singing that but I'm not allowed to play it at home so I won't ever get the chance to learn it. Bert. |
Subject: Lyr Add: UTAH CARROLL From: katlaughing Date: 26 Jul 99 - 08:49 PM Mark-Clark, Sheesh! Ya sure know how ta make a gyrl cry! Such sweet sentiments, I am sure your daughters will choke up, just like me! I didn't come along until 53, so the first radio I remember listening to was Gunsmoke, on Saturday nights. The first song I remember learning off the radio was Catch A Falling Star. We had everything in our house, from opera, classical, folk, cowboy, Girl Scouts, campy/camp, WWII popular, etc. you name, our family was pretty much exposed to it. we all had classical training, mostly in piano & violin. Mom and Dad played for dances and they had an extensive collection of popular sheet music. My sister, bet, is in the process of alphabetising it right now. Somehow, at 82, Dad still remembers more songs than most and I marvel at him still going to entertain the "old folks" at the nursing homes. Now, to get that bit o'thread creep back in line: two more sad songs runing through my mind are Freddie Fender's "Before the next teardrop falls" and Hank Williams' "House Upon the Hill". And, what about Utah Carroll:
And as, my friend, you ask me what makes me sad and still then....
As the girl fell from her pony she had dragged the blanket down and....
When we broke into the circle, upon the ground my pardner lay; and there's more!
katwhocan'tsinganysadsongswithcowboys,horses,orothercrittersinthem! |
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'LL BE NO BLIND ONES THERE (Roberts) From: Mark Clark Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:40 AM Kat, That was wonderful. Now I'm going to have to learn "Utah Carroll" and sing that one for my daughters (and granddaughters). Do you know "There'll Be No Blind Ones There" by Pete Roberts (AKA Pete Kuykendall)? There is another really sad song.
They tell me, Father, again tonight, Now tell me you can sing that one with dry eyes. Thanks, - Mark |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: WyoWoman Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:10 AM OMIGOD!!! Mark, you absolutely got me. I'm simply bereft. What's the tune? WW |
Subject: Lyr Add: BINGEN ON THE RHINE and NAPOLEON AND... From: katlaughing Date: 27 Jul 99 - 10:17 AM Sheesh, Mark! Talk about oneupmanship! I'm gonna bill you for my hankies!**BG** Have you ever read a couple of old poems: Bingen on the Rhine and Napoleon and the British Soldier? They'd make great ballads: Bingen On the Rhine
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers
"Tell my mother that her other sons shall comfort her old age,
"Tell my sister not to weep for me, and sob with drooping head,
"There's another -- not a sister; in teh happy days gone by
"I saw the blue Rhine sweep along -- I heard, or seemed to hear,
"His voice grew faint and hoarser, -- his grasp was childish weak, -- NAPOLEON AND THE BRITISH SOLDIER
I love contemplating - apart
"'Twas when his banners at Boulogne
They suffer'd him, I know not how,
His eye, methinks! pursued the flight
A stormy, midnight watch, he thought,
At last, when care had banished sleep,
He hid it in a cave, and wrought
Heaven help us! 'twas such a thing beyond
Far ploughing in the salt-sea field,
From neighb'ring woods he interlaced
But Frenchmen caught him on the beach,
With folded arms Napoleon stood,
"Rash man, that would'st yon Channle pass,br> On twigs and staves so rudely fashion'd;
"I have no sweetheart," said the lad;
"And so thou shalt," Napoleon said;
He gave the tar a piece of gold,
Our sailor oft could scantly shift Both poems copied from my great-great aunt's book, "Home Book of Poetry" given to her for Christmas in 1882. kat |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Dan Date: 27 Jul 99 - 10:33 AM Whew. This thread is really getting good. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: TW Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:43 PM How 'bout... Unwed Fathers - John Prine or... Something in the Rain - Tish Hinojosa
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: DougR Date: 27 Jul 99 - 12:49 PM Kat, I think those two songs are just about the saddest I've ever read! SOB! SNIFF! DougR |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: The Burren Ranger. Date: 27 Jul 99 - 01:12 PM I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.....Hank Williams. Man Of Constant Sorrow..........The Stanley Bros. A Silent Night(Christmas 1915)..Jerry Lynch. He Stopped Loving her Today.....George Jones. are a few that do it for me. |
Subject: Lyr Add: ONE MORE YEAR OF DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL From: Tiger Date: 27 Jul 99 - 06:32 PM This one gets me every time.....Tiger
One More Year Of Daddy's Little Girl
She'd snuggle up and talk to me
One more year of lollipops, Ice cream cones and soda pop, One more year of daddy's little girl. One more year of crackerjacks, Bubble gum and sugar smacks, One more year of daddy's little girl.
I took her in my arms upstairs
Her faith grew strong her body weak,
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Mary Kate Date: 27 Jul 99 - 09:50 PM "The Youth of the Heart" and "Connemarra by the Lake"...both songs are about a fellow who goes away to work and save money so he can provide for the woman he wants to marry...in song 1 the female tires of waiting and marries someone coincidentally on the same day her former beau returns...in song 2, the female is told her beau had died and thus after 5 years marries someone else only to find that her former beau has returned... |
Subject: Lyr Add: ME AND A GUN (Tori Amos) From: Electra Date: 27 Jul 99 - 10:01 PM The saddest song is "Me and a Gun" by Tori Amos She sings it unaccompanied at every concert, and it is the most hauntingly sad yet beautiful song. Not to depress you, but here are the lyrics:
Me And A Gun 5am Friday morning, Thursday night, far from sleep
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Snookadive Date: 27 Jul 99 - 10:14 PM Oh Yeah! Kate Wolf doing "Midnight on the Water". |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: bob schwarer Date: 28 Jul 99 - 08:59 AM Those brown eyes I love so well Those brown eyes I long to see How I sigh for those brown eyes Strangers they have turned to me(be?) Bob S. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: SueH Date: 28 Jul 99 - 11:55 AM Good God, Bert C. I haven't heard 'The Blizzard' for about 25 years! Marty Robbins did some real tear-jerkers too, but no titles spring to mind. A song that used to make me really sad was 'River of No Return' sung by Marilyn Monroe - possibly the theme tune for the film of the same name? Sue |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Pene Azul Date: 28 Jul 99 - 01:51 PM "Death Don't Have No Mercy In This Land" Rev. Gary Davis It always gets to me, especially when grieving. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Mark Clark Date: 28 Jul 99 - 05:35 PM WyoWoman, Glad you liked it. I have "There'll Be No Blind Ones There" on a couple of different albums. Once in 3/4 time and once in 2/4 but the melody is the same in each case. I'm thinking it might be on a record by Red Allen and the Kentuckians, probably on the County label. I think J.D. Crowe played banjo. The other might have been by the Pinicale Boys. Now I'll have to go home tonight and dig through records to find them. I might be able to create a MIDI file of the tune but it may take some time. Still I think it would be worth the effort. - Mark |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Mark Clark Date: 28 Jul 99 - 05:53 PM Kat, Those poems are both wonderful! If you can set them to music, perhaps we can get Emily Rain to sing them for us. "Bingen On the Rhine" reminded me of an old bluegrass tune so I check the DT and, sure enough, It's an ancestor to "The Legend Of The Rebel Soldier" --- a modified version of an Irish varient of the same tune. I have to say the original makes much better poetry. Thanks, - Mark
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: WyoWoman Date: 28 Jul 99 - 09:06 PM Mark, thanks. I'd say I'd try to get a CD of Red Allen's recording, but I have decided I have to go on a CD fast, or my credit card is going to singe my billfold. If you can get it on DT, that would be swell. I'll wait patiently... ww |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: katlaughing Date: 28 Jul 99 - 09:38 PM Thanks, Mark. Glad you liked them. My bro is more the composer, but if the Muse strikes, I'll let ya know. Emily would do a fine job. I saw the descendants of it in the DT, too, after Dick mentioned them in the ADD-poem thread I posted. Hey, gang, thinking about Alice in Montana going Victorian, how about "She Only A Bird in a Gilded Cage"...pretty sad, huh? kat |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Pete Curry Date: 31 Jul 99 - 10:53 PM Just heard Tony Bennett doing "Poor Butterfly" (including the opening lines that most singers leave out). First time I ever paid attention to that song. It's a real tear-jerker. I checked and it's on his CD, "Here's To The Ladies" (this song is associated with Sarah Vaughan). I believe Bonnie Raitt has recorded it, too. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: katlaughing Date: 01 Aug 99 - 12:55 AM And, I heard "Mr. Lonely", yesterday on our oldies staion, which, yesterday just laid off all of its people from mgmt on down. Remember? "Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely, etc." very sad soldier. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Andres Magre Date: 01 Aug 99 - 05:34 AM The saddest song I know is "Little Pal" (no other reference) recorded by Paul Robeson circa 1938 and included in CD volume REMEMBER RMB 75024. Sorry for bringing up Paul Robeson again, if it seems that my knowledge of folk interpreters is very limited, well, oops..it is ! But I admire Robeson !:) "Little Pal" is the farewell of a man who parts, perhaps to prison, or to be executed. He says farewell to a little son. He begs him to be good to his mother, to be a better man than he is himself, and to remember his loving father even when he meets "another Daddy". I think this is one of the few songs related to family love, and it is a very sad song indeed. I could never sing it. Best regards - escamillo@ciudad.com.ar
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: katlaughing Date: 01 Aug 99 - 03:39 PM Andres, That sounds like a really sad one. I was reminded of one the other day which Rex Allen jr. did about a little kid confronting the postman about not bringing any letters to his mom from his dad who has left her. He "holds up" the mailman with his toy pistol and says "today I'm bringin' momma's letter home". It's really pathetic. kat |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Smeebes Date: 08 Dec 99 - 08:16 PM Not knowing Mudcat had done a thread on this, we put together our top twenty sad songs from English Trad Folk. There are lyrics too (probably from digitrad :) see beta-site at http://www.sarcon.demon.co.uk/frames/sad.htm This is a frames site but the above link will work as non-frames. The home page (frames) url is http://www.sarcon.demon.co.uk/frames/F-reset.htm and that url requires 1208 X 728 resolution (sorry) and is beta so don't grumble if it's not all working. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: bunkerhill Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:14 PM "Easy's Getting Harder." "Poor Wayfarin' Stranger." And an unrecorded tune, "In Early Spring," by Lucy Sollogub. No lyrics, but if you could listen closely, you'd hear the rock of an empty backyard swing. It is dedicated to Linda Tella, who died at age 4. |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Joan Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:25 PM I've read every last post in this thread, and started wondering what it is about some songs that make them so moving and rip-your-heart-out sad. Maybe partings? Leaving home and loved ones not knowing if you'll ever see them again? Separation by death? Then some songs are sad by special associations...for me it's Coltman's "Lonesome Robin" and "Who Will Sing for Me." Does asking "why" make this a whole 'nother thread? j |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Sarah-HS Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:35 PM The late Hank Williams sang the saddest songs I've ever heard - I don't know the name of this one, but it says, "I've just told Mama goodbye, and knelt beside her bed, like the flowers of May she whithers away and my white rose has turned to red". A song I can't sing because it makes me want to cry is "Last Night I had the Strangest Dream" - it gets me feeling sorry for my kids and grandkids growing up in a world that may be destroyed in a nuclear war. I choke up when I reach the part that says - "And the people in the streets below were dancing 'round and 'round, and swords and guns and uniforms were scattered on the ground." |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: doug Date: 08 Dec 99 - 11:12 PM old shep only got two votes?? with a hand that was tremblin, i picked up my gun, and i aimed it at shep's faithful head, i shot the best pal, a boy ever had, i wish they had shot me instead. also he stopped loving her today |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Jon Freeman Date: 08 Dec 99 - 11:25 PM I find Leaving of Nancy hard but the one that really gets to me is Maggie. Jon |
Subject: RE: The Saddest Song of All From: Clinton Hammond2 Date: 09 Dec 99 - 12:15 AM James Keelaghans "Captain Torres".. last time I heard him sing this one at The Ark, I wept like a little girl!!! Garnet ROgers "Row Of Small Trees" Stan Rogers "The Jeannie C." and "White Squall" Stephen Fearings "Turn Out The Lights" Mary Chapin Carpenters "John Doe No.24 I'm also gonna include "Christams in the Trenches", "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda", and "There Were Roses" simply because of what we learn from songs like these... that we don't learn from songs like these at all.. That's the saddest thing of all... |
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