The Saddest Song Ever written

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 05:06 AM

Some songs I can hardly even think of without choking up. One is Richard Thompson, "Never again" - particularly as sung by Shirley Collins.

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 06:44 AM

Anyone suggested 'Down by the Dockyard Wall, I will wait for you' by Shep Wooley, I always find the last verse difficult to get out.

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: mrmoe
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 07:00 AM

....from South Pacific - this nearly was mine

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: GUEST,kevin fletcher
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 08:07 AM

My wife always leaves the room when I play 'Put my little shoes away' as she says she can only take so much sadness. If you don't know it, check out the Everly Bros version from the album 'Songs our daddy taught us'

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: GUEST,Southfolk
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 08:14 AM

How's about the traditional song "Fairyboy", heard a young lass sing it in a club tother night fair brought tears to me peepers.

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 11:31 AM

I listed a few, then went through the thread. All but two of my list have been mentioned more than once. I found just one mention of Steve Goodman's "Ballad of Penny Evans": "Now it's every month I get a check, from some Army Bureaucrat; and it's every month I tear it up, and I send the damn thing back". The one remaining on my list is "Touch a Name on the Wall", by Joel Mabus; nothing else cuts me to the bone in quite the same way: "God damn the liars and tin plated heroes who trade on the blood of such men. God give us the strengh to stand up and tell them...NEVER AGAIN."

As to "Teddy Bear" and "He Stopped Loving Her Today", to me the saddest thing is that people have bought into that level of manipulative maudlin drivel:
He stopped loving her last week;
What's that smell around his door?
Bring a baggy that won't leak;
He stopped loving her last week.

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: Allen in Oz
Date: 09 Apr 09 - 02:09 AM

Lorena
Vacant Chair
Past Carin'

AD in Oz

Subject: RE: The Saddest Song Ever written
From: GUEST,m
Date: 09 Apr 09 - 02:54 AM

The ruins on the shore, Nic Jones

Roll on the day, Allan Taylor