Song that make you weep

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Florian
Date: 04 Jul 01 - 09:18 AM

a)Roy Gullane (not with Tannahill Weavers) - Lady with the lamp b) Tannahill Weavers - Farewell to Fiunary

The first one is about war and Florence Nightingale, second one is about leaving your native home.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 04 Jul 01 - 06:21 AM

I've just read through this thread and it has made me cry - I just wish I hadn't put so much mascara on this morning............

Patrish with black streaks running down her face

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Red Eye
Date: 04 Jul 01 - 06:02 AM

A Song for Ireland always reduces me to tears!!!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,jayohjo
Date: 03 Jul 01 - 07:03 AM

Yes Jayohjo XX

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Lucius
Date: 03 Jul 01 - 01:25 AM

Christmas in the Trenches

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: fiddlergirl
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 11:16 PM

Actually, Loreena Mckennit's "Breaking the Silence" is even more of a tear-jerker. And the tune Slockett Light(if that's how you spell it?).

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: fiddlergirl
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 11:13 PM

Mmmm, the song that always makes me cry is Natalie Merchant's "Beloved Wife"... it aint subtle but it's very moving. It's probably copyright but I'll put it on anyways, maybe I'll just omit a word somewhere...

You were the love for certain of my life You were simply my beloved wife I don't know for certain how I'll live my life Now alone without my beloved wife

Oh I can't believe I've lost the very best of me

You were the love for certain of my life For 50 years simply my beloved wife With another love I'll never lie again It's you I can't deny It's you I can't defy A depth so deep Into my grief Without my beloved soul I renounce my life As my right Now alone without my beloved wife *bridge* My love is gone, she suffered long, in hours of pain My love is gone, and now my suffering begins My love is gone, would it be wrong if I should Surrender all the joy in my life Go with her tonight

My love is gone, she suffered long, in hours of pain My love is gone, would it be wrong if I should Just turn my face away from the light Go with her tonight

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,jayohjo
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 02:47 PM

Just at the moment, a whole load of Russian folk songs - yep, after 6 months I've left some really good friends behind in Russia, though I'm not quite back in the right country yet. For that reason, lots of songs of farewell to a country - which I interpret as both Russia and the UK, both of which I miss (though not excessively!)
But always always songs of young men killed in the wars; now for dual reasons. Firstly, I went to see a performance by a local theatre group which most of my friends were in, of O What A Lovely War. I read the last paragraph of the programme, saying 'most of the actors you will see tonight are about the same age as many soldiers killed in WW1', and as I read it the lights went down and I saw all my male friends on stage in soldiers uniforms. Was in floods by the end, and now always think that had I been born in another time....
Secondly, a lot of the girls I met in Russia had boyfriends who were away fighting in Chechnya (Russian boys are conscripted at 18, unless they have a good reason not to be), which gave me another fresh look at many of the songs I sing, and I think of them now, and think had I been born in another time or another place....
So those are my official moments of realisation, and very powerful they were too. Jayohjo in France (for now) XXX

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Sheila
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 02:02 PM

"Auld Lang Syne" and "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce will get to me each and every time. Sheila

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: The Cat's Whiskers
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 06:34 AM

"From Galway to Graceland" by Richard Thompson and "The Music Weaver" - Sandy Denny. Reminds me of other times...

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: JudeL
Date: 02 Jul 01 - 06:27 AM

Little Birds by Cath Mundy & Jay Turner - the thought of those newborns left to die because there's not enough food for another child is appaulling.
Jude

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 10:16 PM

Here is the recent song by Amergin (Nathan tompkins).......Somebody needs to record this one.

Silent Voices
Nathan Tompkins
(Tune: "Star of the County Down")

In the woods one night, round a fire bright
Were my loved ones, dead and gone,
I stood and stared in the frosty air,
And the moon was pale and drawn;
Oh, they looked at me and smiled at me
And they beckoned me to a chair,
But I stood amazed, in the glowing blaze
And I thought, "Was I really there?"

CHORUS:
Oh, their voices rang and the coyotes sang,
And the laughter began to roar.
Round the crackling might of the fire bright
Were the voices I shall hear no more.

"Sit down" they said and I shook my head
To clear the visions of my dream,
But the forms they stayed so I obeyed,
And their eyes began to gleam
They began to sing and the woods to ring,
Twas a song that I heard before,
Oh, in the fiery heat they sounded sweet
The voices I shall hear no more

Chorus

The coyotes wailed as they told their tales
Of the life upon the range;
I looked around as the flames died down
And the skies began to change.
The mists arose and I watched them go
And my heart grew pale with woe,
With a tearful cry I bade goodbye
To the voices I'll hear no more.

Chorus

Now among the trees in the wintry breeze
On the paths I walk alone
With great delight I found where the fire bright
Burned red among the stones.
Amidst the storm the coals were warm
From the craic of the night before,
I smiled my friend for in the wind
Whispered the voices I'll hear no more.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: catspaw49
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 10:01 PM

That wonderful old chestnut "When You and I Were Young" ("Maggie") just kills me and especially when done by our friend here Sandy Paton....just too much.

"Bob Dylan's Dream" is almost impossible for me to get through............

A song that was written recently by our very own Amergin simply put me on the floor! It's to the tune of "Star of County Down"..........fantastic........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Bugsy
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 09:37 PM

Fred Smalls - Everything Possible. A wonderful song about the possibilities for young children.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Andytwodogs
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 06:49 PM

It's the music when played as solo fiddle and not too fast . the tune is Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: balladeer
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 05:05 PM

Just now, anything by David Francey, especially Sumach Street.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Gorgeous Gary
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 04:22 PM

Bob Franke's "Healing In This Night". A friend of mine adopted it after her father died, both as a conduit for sharing her grief with her friends and thanking them for their support. After my grandfather passed away and she was one of those who lent their support to **me**, I found myself equally touched by the song.

Also Fred Small's "Cranes over Hiroshima", especially when filk group Musical Chairs used to perform it. One of their members was a sign-language interpreter; she did an absolutely lovely and tear-jerking signing of the song.

-- Gary

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Terry K
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 09:33 AM

Hank's "First Fall of Snow" - that dolly verse gets me every time.

Cheers, Terry

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Angie
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 06:11 AM

caladonia(scottish exile now in devon always makes me leak from the face) sunshine in bordeaux(dunno if thats the real title or if it's ma ain country) my dad sung that in bordeaux at the last world cup when scotland were playing there and the entire tartan army were reduced to blubbering wrecks.incidentally if anyone has the lyrics to that one i would love to get my sweaty mitts on them.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Red Eye
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 02:21 AM

Lyrics can be very emotional as can an instrument, what instrumental piece can make you BLUB!!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: simpleminded
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 03:33 PM

I'm surprised that out of 92 posts I didn't see Louie Armstrongs "What A Wonderful World". Especially when sung at a spring concert by a bunch of 6 year olds!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Orac
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 11:42 AM

CaviaP.. Marillyn Middleton Pollack's voice can have that effect no matter what song she sings.. She certainly has that effect on me. Such a shame she gave up on folk to concentrate on blues. One of hers thats a fav of mine is "If I had a son" ... another weepy

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Gervase
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 10:01 AM

I'm always getting moved by songs - the latest one is one by Bob Hambleton that he sang at Chippenham and more recently at Maidenhead - Don't Let the Music Die - which he says was written as part of the Flanders Experience Project. I'm trying to get hold of the words, but it's a cracking song.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Cavia_P
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 09:30 AM

I would have to agree with Orac re Stan Rogers' 'Last Watch on the Midland' as sung by Marillyn Middleton Pollack. My eyes are wet now just thinking about it.
Jez Lowe's 'Last of the Widows' usually gets to me, and there's a song called Red Falcon IIRC about a Fleetwood trawler sinking, I have heard it twice and been in tears both times.

Cavia_P

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Aidan Crossey
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 09:28 AM

Just a few ...

Innisvaddy Annie sung by Len Graham
For Ireland I Won't Tell Her Name sung by Dervish
Don't Cry In Your Sleep, The Lakes of Pontchartrain and Peggy Gordon sung by a friend of mine, Dermot Maguire, possessor of one the most sonorous voices I've ever heard
Johnny's Tune (For The Avalon) by Paddy Keenan
Miss Otis Regrets by Kirsty MacColl (I've always liked her version but when I saw her perform it on a recent TV tribute, backed by a Scots pipe'n'drum outfit, it choked me up. As did her singing Don't Come The Cowboy With Me, Sunny Jim
Peggy Gordon by Luke Kelly
True Love Knows No Reason by Planxty
The Wild Goose by Kate Rusby
Irish Ways by Alias Ron Kavana
Arthur McBride by Paul Brady
LA Freeway by Guy Clark
The Pilgrim and Still In Love With You by Steve Earle
Down By The Side Of The Road by John Prine

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:47 AM

To add to the ones I mentioned in the earlier thread on this topic:
The pub with no beer
RtS (no place for a dog...)

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Orac
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:39 AM

How about
The last watch on the Midland (Stan Rogers
White Squall (Stan Rogers)
The last Train (Stanley Accrington)
Rosemary's Sister (Hew Williams)

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Eeyore
Date: 25 Jun 01 - 08:32 AM

It has to be "Who will sing me Lullabies" written by Kate Rusby when Davy Steele was diagnosed as being seriously ill.

Made doubly emotional for me as the first time I heard her sing it was a couple of months after my guitarist friend, with whom I used to sing, died very suddenly.

Until last night I thought it may have lost it's power over me, but saw her inconcert at the Royal Festival Hall, London and was reduced to a mess of tears at the end of the concert when she sang this with just John McCusker on cittern and her guitar!! So poignant!

Wen

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Devilmaster
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 07:19 PM

Very simple for me, but only in a special way.....

Amazing Grace, of course, but only when started by a piper, and then followed in accompianment on the second verse by a brass band.

Sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Benjamin
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 03:56 PM

Yes it does Firecat. It's a sad song.
I rediscovered lasat night the power of Hugh Masekela's voice when he'd sing about the problems of South Africa. The man has such love for his country despite all it's been through and all he's been through because of it.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Susan from California
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 02:04 PM

Ok, lots of songs but the first was Bruce Springsteen's "The River". It's a song of an unplanned pregnancy and lost dreams, how life sometimes takes us places we never thought we'd go.

The following are listed by performer, not necessarily Julie Miller--"Broken Things". This is a religious song, so if you aren't, you probably won't like it.

Richard Shindell--"Wisteria" I don't know for sure if this song is about what I think it about, but to me it's about a man whose wife has died, and he is remembering their life together.

Springsteen again (what can I say, my formative years were spent in New Jersey) with "41 Shots". It makes me angry and wistful and so very sad.

There are too many others, music can touch me in ways that my WASP upbringing won't otherwise allow!

And I kinda have to agree with mousethief on his selection ;-)

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Firecat
Date: 24 Jun 01 - 02:03 PM

Thanks Benjamin. I knew it was something like that but I wasn't sure!
Does it upset you too?

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Joe_F
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 10:55 PM

Oh, I forgot "Der Treue Husar" -- purely sentimental, on account of the scene in which the frightened barmaid sings it in _Paths of Glory_. I posted a query about it once on rec.music.folk, and a German looked up the words & sent them to me, remarking that he liked the song for the same reason. I can't make much sense of them. But humming the tune always brings tears to my eyes.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Benjamin
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 04:33 PM

Firecat, Forever Autumn was Justin Hayward (close). He's the guy from the Moody Blues. I love that song too.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Monny
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 10:46 AM

Eric Bogle's "All The Fine Young Men" and John Gorka's "Semper Fi"

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,Gray
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 10:20 AM

Well I'm not ashamed to admit that one tune always brings a tear is: Song: Lone Shanakyle, Artist: Deanta Album: Whisper of a Secret

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Dorrie
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 09:43 AM

hey i didn't realise it was pop songs????????Oh i must add 'eternal flame' the bangles because the girls used 2 sing it when we where all still in hull boohoo i miss my school mates. And Goo goo dolls-slide'what you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful'how can that not be the nicest thing ever!!!!!! love dorrie xxx

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 09:35 AM

Roundup Montana - click here This song started as a response to Jeri's Islip, Long Island parody of Kilkelly, but Allan C. has now written a new tune for Roundup Montana, so the melody can be different. I always use the verse Wolfgang suggested that I write, one that fits the rest of the story. I still can't get through it un-teary enough to sing it in public.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Alice
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 09:23 AM

"Something In The Rain" by Tish Hinojosa.
"..........somethings wrong with little sister, I hear her crying in the night......... and mom says, "Close your eyes, mijito (my little son), dream of someplace far from here, like the pictures in your school books. Someday you can take us there. Little sister's gone away, Mama's working long again. ......and the rains are pouring down, from the growers to the towns, And until we break the killing chains, there must be something in the rain."

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Firecat
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 06:52 AM

I've recently found another few that upset me. Here goes

Melanie B "Lullaby" (cos it's absolutely beautiful)

S Club 7 "Never had a Dream Come True" (exactly what I think about my fiance)

Michael Jackson "You Are Not Alone" (no reason!)

Westlife "Moments" or "We Are One" (fiance reasons again!)

There's too many!!!!!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,joe
Date: 22 Jun 01 - 08:47 PM

the one that gets me (God knows why) is 'Hard Times Come Again no More'. i can listen just fine but i break up if i try to sing it. 'specially after a few beers.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: GUEST,longarm
Date: 20 Jun 01 - 04:57 AM

I nominated Tom Paxton's "When I go to See my son" on the saddest song of all thread and I'm renominating it for this one! Can't think why nobody agrees with me!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: bobby's girl
Date: 19 Jun 01 - 08:01 PM

I howl whenever I hear Margarita by Harvey Andrews - a blind lady reminiscing about her fiance who was killed in WW1, and saying "Is he still smiling " about his photo. What she doesn't know is that the photo has been in the sun and has faded away to nothing... I also have to agree with Firecat about Les Mis - my daughter and I are going to see it in a few weeks, and as we can't even listen to the soundtrack without sobbing, i think we could be in for trouble!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Patrish(inactive)
Date: 19 Jun 01 - 10:20 AM

I heard Martyn Wyndam Read sing a song by Graham Miles(I think)It had a strange name - exercise 77, or something like it. The words and the tune are exceptional
Patrish

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Fiolar
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 11:58 AM

Surprised that no one has mentioned "Country Bumpkin" (The Al Smith version). The last verse always brings tears to my eyes.

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Diva
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 07:20 AM

Wings....Brian Bedford

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Finny
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 05:24 AM

Hi everybody, I'm new here and this is my first post. I think the last time a song really effected me was when I heard a lady bard sing Captain Jack and the Mermaid at this year's Rowany festival. It so moved me. The story behind the song is just gorgeous. Of course, I had to go and learn the song. Oh and the othertime I heard a song that affected me was listening to the Princess Bride soundtrack and hearing Storybook Love. It's one of the songs we're having at our wedding and I cried because it made me think about how much I really love him! Ok, sop sop, yes I know, but, hey, I'm a softy!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Firecat
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 04:27 AM

Ooooooooops!!!!!!! I forgot "Twelfth Of Never" by Donny Osmond. I heard it over the weekend cos there was a programme dedicated to 70s music, and I ended up in tears! I'm not really lacking in musical taste, honest!!!!

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Firecat
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 04:24 AM

There's loads that make me cry. Here goes with just a few of them ...

"Will You Wait For Me?" by Kavana (reminds me of my sister)

"Goodbye" by the Spice Girls (same reason)

"I Really Miss You" by S Club 7 (reminds me of my fiance when I can't see him)

"Bright Eyes" by Stephen Gately (no idea why, it just does!)

"Forever Autumn" by Justin Heywood (at least I think it's by him. That reminds me of Jen too)

"You Must Love Me" by Madonna (And that one!)

Any sad song out of Les Miserables eg "On My Own" (I'm not sure why but I had to leave choir cos of that one. I was crying instead of singing. Never a good idea!!)

Subject: RE: Song that make you weep
From: Bugsy
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 09:38 PM

No one mentioned "Teddy Bear"??

LOL

CHeers

Bugsy