Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: gillymor Date: 10 Jul 19 - 03:00 PM An empty bottle, a broken heart, And you're still on my mind. -Luke McDaniel Although I can't dismiss, the memory of her kiss, I guess she's not for me. -Ira Gershwin Hear the lonesome whippoorwill, He sounds too blue to fly, That means he's lost the will to live, And I'm so lonesome I could cry. -Hank Williams The dust that Pancho bit down south, Ended up in Lefty's mouth. -Townes Van Zandt Though they're gone the scenes were there, Like broken dreams as in a mirror, Made by the moon upon the water, And our love was never stronger, But the picture was broken, By the waves we left behind. At midnight on the water, Once upon a time. - I forgot who put the words to that wonderful tune. |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Jesse Bassfeller Date: 10 Jul 19 - 02:49 PM It takes a few lines to really set it up, IMHO, and personal choices that end up with tragic results: Empty winds, you hear her say Fickle winds, they shift away And I don't need him in my life for I can fly . But who will walk her tonight out in the heather? And who will laugh away the teardrop in her eye? - Bill Staines But I was too free with all of the women, And drink it was my friend on every occasion, Her father he wants for riches and plenty, And the man who could endow them with name and fortune, Where all that I possess is my love for that wild mountain maid. - Al O'Donnell? Richard Thompson always does it for me when he sings: See that lover standing Staring at the ground He's looking for the real thing Lies were all he found You can get the real thing It will only cost a pound Down where the drunkards roll Down where the drunkards roll Either than or: Opps, I did again, I played with your heart, got lost in the game... |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Geordie boy Date: 10 Jul 19 - 02:26 PM ..and in her eyes you see nothing... |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Dave the Gnome Date: 10 Jul 19 - 02:05 PM Surely there are some C&W songs that will beat all these! How about "It's been lonesome in the saddle since my horse dropped dead"? |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,ottery Date: 10 Jul 19 - 01:57 PM And you will marry a proud gunner And a right guid gunner I'm sure he'll be For with the first shot that e'er he fires He'll kill baith my bonny son and me. from The Silkie of Sule Skerry as sung by The Corries |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,HiLo Date: 10 Jul 19 - 12:22 PM When harm is done No love can be won, I know it happens frequently, What I can't understand, Please God hold my hand; Is why it should have happened to me. Heart Like A Wheel by Kate McGarrigle |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: ChanteyLass Date: 10 Jul 19 - 12:15 PM Both of these are from The Dutchman by Michael Peter Smith He's mad as he can be but Margaret only sees that sometimes Sometimes she sees her unborn children in his eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Long ago I used to be a young man And dear Margaret remembers that for me I may post others as I rememeber them. |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Megan L Date: 10 Jul 19 - 12:14 PM "These little islands shook to their foundations And no-one really knew quite what to say They told us they were brave and gallant people Those men who seemed so very far away" From Ivan Dever's Brave souls about the longhope lifeboat disaster |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: beardedbruce Date: 10 Jul 19 - 11:58 AM Now he walks down the street in the evening And he stops by the old candy store And I somehow believe he's believin' He's holdin' her hand like before For he feels all her love walkin' with him And he smiles at the things she might say Then the old man walks up to the hill top And gives her a daisy a day CHORUS I'll give you a daisy a day dear I'll give you a daisy a day I'll love you until the rivers run still And the four winds we know blow away |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,henryp Date: 10 Jul 19 - 11:01 AM He ran out to the lot, and climbed into his rig And drove off without tightening down It was a terrible thing, to see what remained Of the rig that poor Danny was in And he was so young and on a ten city run In love with a truck stop girl Truck Stop Girl by Lowell George/Bill Payne |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,LynnH Date: 10 Jul 19 - 03:56 AM Phil Ochs again - "Now there are no more songs..............." |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Fasteddy Date: 10 Jul 19 - 03:51 AM Third verse of Eric Bogle's All the fine young men....For many of those fine young men,all the wars are over. They've found their peace,it's peace that lasts forever. When the call comes again,they will not answer. They're just forgotten bones lying far from their homes,as forgotten as the cause for which they died. |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Jerry Date: 10 Jul 19 - 03:27 AM First it bent and then it broke Just like the love ‘twixt you and me. I wish, I wish, I wish in vain That we could simply sit in that room again I won’t see the golden of the sun, when I’m gone |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Dave Hanson Date: 10 Jul 19 - 02:10 AM From the newer version second version of The Flowers of the Forest from The Minstrelsy Of The Scottish Borders. first verse and las verse I've seen the smiling of fortune beguiling, I've tasted her favours and felt her decay, Sweet is her blessing and kind her caressing, But soon it is fled - it is fled far away. ********** O fickle fortune ! why this cruel sporting, Why thus perplex us poor sons of a day ? Thy frowns cannot fear me, thy smiles cannot cheer me, Since the flowers of the forest are a' wede away |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Wireharp Date: 09 Jul 19 - 07:59 PM "I am stretched out on your grave ad I will lie there forever, if your hand were still in mine I know we would not sever." |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Bizibod Date: 09 Jul 19 - 07:04 PM from Kate Rusby's "My young Man" My young man, where's he gone? Once in his eyes my whole world shone Now my young man he looks away. Man and wife we used to be Now he's like a child upon my knee And in my arms I help my young man through the day. Never got through the whole song yet because it makes me cry every time.( Singing for myself, not in public.) Is there anyone, I wonder, apart from Kate Rusby, who can can actually do that ?! |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST,Gallus Moll Date: 09 Jul 19 - 06:41 PM From: Highland Mary by Robert Burns - But Oh, fell death's untimely frost That nipt my flower sae early! Now green's the sod and cauld's the clay That wraps my Highland Mary. Oh pale pale now those rosy lips I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly! And clos'd for aye the sparkling glance That dwalt on me sae kindly! And mouldering noo in silent dust The heart that loo'd me dearly! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Joe_F Date: 09 Jul 19 - 06:05 PM Life is a toil and love is a trouble, Beauty will fade and riches will flee, Pleasures will dwindle and prices will double, And nothing is as I should wish it to be. |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Big Al Whittle Date: 09 Jul 19 - 05:56 PM One man went to mow a meadow. (you have to change chords on the word 'meadow'. With this, there is no compromise). |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: GUEST Date: 09 Jul 19 - 05:51 PM Horrific and sad The Death of Queen Jane The doctor was called for and set by her bedside: 'What aileth thee, my ladie, thine eyes seem so red?' 'O doctor, O doctor, will ye do this for me, To rip up my two sides and save my babie?' 'Queen Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, that's the thing I'll neer do, To rip up your two sides to save your babie:' Queen Jeanie, Queen Jeanie, traveld six weeks and more, Till women and midwives had quite gien her oer. |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: Hamish Date: 09 Jul 19 - 03:52 PM A bit left-field, this but... From Dr Hook's Sylvia's Mother: "And, sir, won't you call back again?" She doesn't even seem to know his name!! |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: JHW Date: 09 Jul 19 - 02:54 PM Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met-or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. |
Subject: RE: saddest lines in song From: WalkaboutsVerse Date: 09 Jul 19 - 02:47 PM In the English tradition, at least, couples are (nearly) always parted for 7 long years. |
Subject: saddest lines in song From: Andy7 Date: 09 Jul 19 - 02:40 PM Which lines from songs are among the saddest? One that I would suggest is this, from 'Changes' by Phil Ochs: "And I'll kiss you one more time, And leave you on the rolling river shores of changes." And another, from Don McLean's 'Empty Chairs': "And I wonder if you know, That I never understood, That although you said you'd go, Until you did, I never thought you would." And, from 'Softly as I leave You', sung by Matt Munro and Frank Sinatra (and others): "Softly, I will leave you, softly, For my heart would break, if you should wake and see me go." |
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