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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Geordie Date: 02 Dec 02 - 10:09 AM Raglan Road, Annan Waters,The Minstrel Boy, The Sally Gardens, Red Brother, Red Sister[Bruce Cockburn} North Country Blues, The Patriot Game, Gentle Annie.......oh, there are soooooooo many. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Julia Date: 01 Dec 02 - 02:33 PM I'd say the Simon and Garfunkel recording of "Silent Night." |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: rich-joy Date: 01 Dec 02 - 03:35 AM hmmmmmm ... my vote is still going to Kate Wolf's "The Heart" |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Songsmith Date: 01 Dec 02 - 03:29 AM JP Cormier's "Another Morning" Lennie Gallant's "Island Clay" |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: banjomad (inactive) Date: 30 Nov 02 - 05:34 PM If you think you know SAD think again. Try listening to two Irish tunes, 'Bean An Fir Ruadh, and 'Donal Og' here is great sadness, Sadly Dave |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Cluin Date: 30 Nov 02 - 01:10 PM My Dad used to get my sisters crying (but not me, man, NO WAY!) every time he picked up his guitar by singing Hank Snow's "Little Buddy". And I still can't sing "Puff the Magic Dragon". Don't know why, but there ye go.... |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,daylia Date: 30 Nov 02 - 12:49 PM Little Mark Lester singing "Where is Love" in the 60's musical 'Oliver!" Neil Young's "Pocahontas" Charlotte Church singing "Panis Angelicus" in 'Joan of Arc' (must be the context) |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 30 Nov 02 - 12:23 PM Would not go so far as to call these the saddest, but they do capture the feeling - First Christmas by Stan Rogers and Wedding Dress Mary by Tom Russell. Roger's White Squall and Russell's song about the fighting rooster can evoke a strong reaction. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Sandy McLean Date: 30 Nov 02 - 12:01 PM Slippers With Wings Put My Little Shoes Sway Long Before Your Time First Fall Of Snow Little Rosa Nobody's Child |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST Date: 30 Nov 02 - 09:49 AM The Orphan Train (Tom Russell)... Kilkelly |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Rayshuck Date: 30 Nov 02 - 09:21 AM The song "Long before your time" which we as an Irish Group play at every gig, but as the singer I cannot hold back the tears. Maybe I`m too sentimental but the poem/song "If Papa were only ready" which I read for the first time creates immediate emotional tears. My wife thinks I should cease playing/singing emotional songs...what say. Ray |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST Date: 05 Mar 02 - 03:08 AM Amazing fact that we do see In this here U S A The Supeme Court it stopped the vote And put in Bush that day Twas Bush who can not talk and chew Is run by CIA With Stragelove well in place right now Last chance for USA The people waft all too the sky On internet and TV They trip right over homeless folks In this society No need for films of World War two The FBI has come And focused on it's certin folks With some concentration The many armies of US Go bombing everywhere With death of countless innocents The people still don't care What will it take to wake us up I really do not know With atom bomb in sutcase now We really have to grow Amazng Grace you do recall Turned a slaveship around You folkies all now is the time To be twice as profound (Would you believe how late I just stayed up) c 2001 Eric Levine Feel free to improve it But that is what I am so so sad about |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Zipster Date: 04 Mar 02 - 05:53 AM Context obviously adds to the effect. I had boght the single of Drive (by the Cars???) before Live Aid as she liked the song. It was only when it was used against video images that it made me weep like a bucket. Context again, Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton. Recent thread reminded me that the phrase, "no mammies kisses and no daddie's smiles", in Nobody's child can set me off. I welled up listening yesterday to Matt McGInn singing Q4 about the sense of pride and identity that Glasgow as a city was once able to take from the ships they built and sent to sea. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Lucius Date: 03 Mar 02 - 11:54 PM Fairytale of New York by the Pogues, THe Ballad of Penny Evans by Steve Goodman or any one of a dozen tunes by Tom Waits.
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Em Date: 03 Mar 02 - 04:17 PM Saddest song (at least, the most tragic song) has to be "4 O'Clock In The Morning." Dunno who wrote it but I heard it sung by the Pogues. It really is a depressing little number. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: kendall Date: 03 Mar 02 - 05:29 AM Not that it matters, but, I believe Hobo's Lullaby was written by Goebel Reeves. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Shonagh Date: 02 Mar 02 - 03:15 PM -The Cruel Mother -The Twa Corbies -Barbara Allan -Get me through December on Nat MacMasters album In my Hands Theres plently more but i just cant think of any!! |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,JTT Date: 02 Mar 02 - 05:34 AM Has to be Liam O Raghallaigh, which starts: An chuimhin leat an oiche ud... (Do you remember that night) the night in question being the night of the wedding that the widowed bride is remembering; she says (I translate): "Do you remember that night, the streets full of action - priests and brothers talking about our wedding..." It goes on into a desperate and tragic lament; in the second verse she sings: "A bride and a widow I was left on my wedding night..." By the third or fourth verse she's describing in graphic detail how the body of her beloved must be: "The eels have your eyes, and the crabs your sweet mouth; your two long, bright, bright-shining arms are under the harsh discipline of the salmon". And she ends with a curse on the craftsmen who made the boat, saying that if they'd gone to a place known for its good quality wood, the boat would not have sunk, and "My thousand-times treasure would not have drowned on the coast of Malbay". The tune, too, is a keen, beautiful, eerie and tragic. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Neebrainbow@aol.com Date: 01 Mar 02 - 05:13 PM saddest song....hmm.. a tough one but " The Hobboes lullaby" by Woody guthrie (?) sung by Emmy Lou Harris is up there The Band played Waltzin' Matilda is a great Anti War song Fire and rain , James Taylor but as a boy a record called " A little dog cried" always set me howling with tears. My brother would put the record on the player and see who would cry first! |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,ylime Date: 01 Mar 02 - 05:09 PM I always cry when I hear the Last Leviathan, and deportee gets me pretty bad too. I have never heard the song version of Christmas in the trenches performed,but the poem is one of the most powerful I have ever heard emily |
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Subject: Lyr Add: IF PAPA WERE ONLY READY (Philip P Bliss) From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Mar 02 - 04:45 PM The "poem" posted by Little John Cameron above intrigued me, so I did a bit of research, and found that it is a song after all—although I couldn't find the tune anywhere. Copied from The P.P. Bliss Lyric Archive (and slightly edited by me).
IF PAPA WERE ONLY READY
"I should like to die," said Willie, "if my papa could die too,
"But she told me, I remember once, while sitting on her knee,
"There I know I shall be happy and will always want to stay.
"There will be none but the holy. I shall know no more of sin.
"Nellie says that may be I shall very soon be called away. ["If Papa Were Only Ready" is song #415 (of 750) in "Sacred Songs and Solos" compiled by Ira David Sankey, published ca. 1888. (There were several editions.)] |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Joe_F Date: 17 Sep 01 - 06:53 PM I wish you were here to be underfoot, I wish you were here to get in my way, To call me from work, to call me to play, I wish you were here again. Oh, what did I do that had to be done, And what did I read that had to be read, When I could have turned to watch you instead? I wish you were here again. The monuments rise, the monuments fall, The papers are signed and turn into chaff, But I can recall the sound of your laugh. I wish you were here again. I wish you were here to be underfoot, I wish you were here to get in my way, To call me from work, to call me to play. I wish you were here again. -- Malvina Reynolds |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,frankie Date: 17 Sep 01 - 06:23 PM Did anyone mention "Victor Jara". I don't remember who wrote it but Arlo did a version that always reduces me to a blubbering heap. f |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,janey Date: 17 Sep 01 - 06:01 PM Heaven Knows No Frontiers (as sang by Mary Black) Nothing more needs be said. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Boab Date: 17 Sep 01 - 01:48 AM Bogle's "No Man's Land" is a choker when you have somebody lying in France. Rab Burns' "Ye Banks and Braes" is in the running, as is "The Rowan Tree". [Can ye tell I'm a Scot??] |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Deckman Date: 16 Sep 01 - 05:12 PM For me, it's the traditional ballad "Castle Grand." |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Puflet Date: 16 Sep 01 - 03:37 PM 'Thieves like Us' New Order 'Missing' Everything but the Girl Actually, I think half the thing about sad songs, or what makes them particularly poignant for me, is the state of mind I am in when I first hear them, and it is therefore associations as well as something about the songs themselves - with these, it's a sense of loss and hopelessness. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: SINSULL Date: 16 Sep 01 - 03:04 PM My first thread...Now I wonder if the saddest song has been written. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,jenn Date: 16 Sep 01 - 02:45 PM the saddest song, one that always makes me want to cry is "The Green Fields of France" "did they play the death march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the last post in chorus? Did the pipes play the Flowers of the forest? |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Bat Goddess Date: 16 Sep 01 - 12:35 PM All of the above plus "Dancing At Whitsun" -- took me ages to learn it, cuz I'd tear up around the second verse -- all those villages with no one left but old men and women and children. Then again, how about "No More Beer From Kendall" and Johnny Handle's "The Old Pubs." Those are pretty sad songs about some pretty sad subjects, too. Bat Goddess |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Michelle Date: 16 Sep 01 - 11:41 AM Besides most Hank Williams songs :) I would have to say Hey Jesus by the Indigo Girls Adrian by Jewel (esp. as it's a true story) and. . .The Superman Song by Crash Test Dummies And thanks to all the other suggestions on this thread--I've gotten some good suggestions here. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,gandalf the grey Date: 08 Aug 01 - 07:35 PM Without a doubt it is " mary had a little lamb" by Paul macCartney.What a sad excuse for a #1 hit song,but i bet he made a million. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,duart Date: 08 Aug 01 - 10:03 AM It has to be "Streets of London" by Ralph McTell for its general condemnation of big city apathy, or "Leaving Nancy" by Eric Bogle, for its simple examination of any son taking a last farewell of his mother. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Steve N. Date: 07 Aug 01 - 08:09 PM "Come All Ye Tender Hearted"....Peter Rowan sang it on an album of his. This one is way beyond sad, as we Bluegrassers would say....it's PITIFUL. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,tim Date: 07 Aug 01 - 03:26 PM go rest high on that mountain by vince gill going home amazing grace tears in heaven by eric clapton grown men dont cry- tim mcgraw gloomy sunday |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Whiskey Date: 07 Aug 01 - 01:33 PM What's wrong with Harvey Andrews' "The Soldier" or whatever it's called. That's really sad, in my view. If you've never heard it, try to find it and give it a listen...although it's getting a bit dated now, it's still thought provoking. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: jaze Date: 06 Aug 01 - 06:46 PM "Making Believe" as sung by Emmylou. /also her "Ballad of a Runaway Horse". |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,mmm1a Date: 06 Aug 01 - 03:54 PM Saddest song is the one that is never heard. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: kendall Date: 06 Aug 01 - 08:23 AM No Time to say Goodby by Tom Paxton |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: bobbi Date: 06 Aug 01 - 02:11 AM Poor Lil' Babes In The Woods. (Sniff... Sob) |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,john c Date: 06 Aug 01 - 02:03 AM "Blues Run the Game" - cos its true and they did. At least for poor old Jackson. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Lee Shore Date: 05 Aug 01 - 10:14 PM Have to add Stan Rogers' "Harris and the Mare." |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Lee Shore Date: 05 Aug 01 - 09:57 PM Saddest: Hound Dog, Bay at the Moon" sung by Odetta. Saddest phrase in a song: "Aint nobody loves me but my mother, and I think she may be jivin' too" -BB King. The Irish sweep the catagory though, with Danny Boy, Parting Glass, Valley of Knockanoor and a thousand others. As G.K Chesterton says: "For the great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, for all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad." Of course, Chesterton might have allowed as how the Brits had a little something to do with making Ireland sad. |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: SINSULL Date: 05 Aug 01 - 09:20 PM This was my first "Thread". Thanks for renewing it, guys. Utah Phillips' "I Remember Loving You" is definitely on the list. If you haven't heard Kendall do it, buy the CD. "Danny Boy", I thought, was a mother saying goodbye to her son knowing she would never see him again. Any experts in the house? (Silly question!) |
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Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written From: kendall Date: 05 Aug 01 - 09:07 PM Where Are You going my little one...? Loch Tay boat song. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Saddest Song Ever written From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:27 AM I stand by all the statements I just made, but apologise for the typos |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Saddest Song Ever written From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 18 Jul 00 - 08:23 AM I agree with GUEST, in fact he/she beat me to it in quoting 'Gloomy Sunday'. I also find 'Danny Boy' has tear jerking qualities when one realises that Danny is being spoken to by a dying lover, who says that her grave will be warmer when she hears his prayers. My parents were both strongly afected by jimmie Rodgers' @Whisper Your Mothers Name'. Iwould also submit Ewan MacColl's 'Joy of Living' written by him when he knew that his time was growing shorter. He refers to his wife as "dearest companion" and adresses the most affecting line to his children, "Farewell my chicks, now you must fly alone". As a father and grandfather that line had me in tears. The song is a masterpiece, written by a great artist and humanitarian. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Nikki Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:41 AM Well, when I was a little tyke, my mother could make me cry by singing "Oh, Susannah." Later, it was "The Moon Shines Tonight on Pretty Red Wing" (the tune more of us probably know as "Union Maid.") My father always said that "your bladder's too close to your eyeballs" thing. But a couple of newer songs that I feel are quite sad are "I Remember Loving You" which I think might be by U. Utah Phillips, and "Here's to You Rounders" - sung by Bok & Trickett - I don't have any railroad bums in my family as far as I know, but there's something about those two that touches me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Saddest Song Ever written From: Lena Date: 17 Jul 00 - 08:02 AM Heavy ones could be: Open your eyes(Irish lullaby-does anybody know it here?!) "La Guerra di Piero"(this soldier is walking in this forest when he meets another soltier from the other army.Piero sees the fear in his enemy's eyes,sees the vulnerability of the man and sees he's a young fellow like him,and esitates.The other soldier turns out not to be that kind and shoots him straight away.Piero's last words are for his girlfriend, "Nina,my love,to die in may takes much too much courage Nina,my love,straight to hell I'd rather go there in winter") "False/True love"(trad/Eaton/Murphy) |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Saddest Song Ever written From: GUEST,Giac, not at home Date: 16 Jul 00 - 01:07 PM Thought I put these in this thread a few days ago, but the post seems to have vanished ... hmmmmm. Anyhow:
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