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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 |
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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
In the woods one night, round a fire bright
CHORUS:
"Sit down" they said and I shook my head
Chorus
The coyotes wailed as they told their tales
Chorus
Now among the trees in the wintry breeze
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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?). |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Lucius Date: 03 Jul 01 - 01:25 AM Christmas in the Trenches |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,jayohjo Date: 03 Jul 01 - 07:03 AM Yes Jayohjo XX |
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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!!! |
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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
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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. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Red Eye Date: 05 Jul 01 - 01:04 PM Yes Patrish, it's been a good thread. Loads of songs and tunes to identify with. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Tattie Bogle Date: 09 Jul 01 - 06:32 PM Mal G; see you in Sidmouth and I'll bring the words of "My ain Countrie": Sheena Wellington sings it but doesn't include the verse about Bordeaux: Stravaig also do it on their CD "Moving On" and they do do the verse you want. Won't be in Sidmouth Sat/Sun though Tattie B |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Angie Date: 09 Jul 01 - 07:24 PM cheers Tattie, we'll be there wed.and/or thurs. I'ts me that wants the lyrics (MalG is me old man) and I can't get him off of mudcat even though I bloody found it! |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Chicken Charlie Date: 09 Jul 01 - 11:46 PM I'm convinced that I have a bit of a problem empathizing with folks in the normal course of life, and that therefore I emote over songs more than is called for. Isn't that fascinating, like who the #### asked. But the songs that do it for me aren't necessarily any more pathos laden than some others. I can get thru 1913 massacre w/a straight face, but cannot do "William and Molly" without puddling. Only way I've yet done "Run Kate Shelley Run" is to play it on something other than guitar so I have to think about the left hand rather than the ducts. Even that isn't guaranteed. What a cheery-ass topic for a neurotic, anyway. Whoever started this thread, I owe you one. BG. CC |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Red Eye Date: 10 Jul 01 - 09:30 AM It was redeye who started it and a very good one it has been. if you look through the titles they are very different and all mean so much to people. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST Date: 10 Jul 01 - 09:50 AM I have always loved Bonnie Raits "I can't make you love me". |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,UTM&OK (a guest) Date: 10 Jul 01 - 10:37 PM Bruce Cockburn's "Closer to the Light." First time I heard it I was on my way to the funeral of a friend who committed suicide. It still gives me chills all these years later. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,Selkie Date: 11 Jul 01 - 02:39 PM How about "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"? |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Red Eye Date: 01 Nov 01 - 12:41 PM Thanks |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Madam Gashee Date: 02 Nov 01 - 04:24 AM The Lock-Keeper made me sob the first time I heard it & most times since although it's not a particulary sad sentiment. In my defence, several others people I have spoken to have done the same. Also Springsteen's The River |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,MC Fat Date: 02 Nov 01 - 06:23 AM Any bugger singing the 'Field of Athenry' makes me bloody weep. God I hate that fecking song !!! |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Deda Date: 02 Nov 01 - 01:22 PM I heard Loudan (sp??) Wainright interviewed on Fresh Air the other day and he sang a song about recovering from his mother's death that really got to me. I don't remember the title but I remember a couple of lines:
Everybody says it's your friends who get you through He has a new CD which has this on it; that's why he was talking to Terry Gross on radio. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,Steven G. Date: 03 Nov 01 - 07:43 AM I would say a song that makes me weep is Stan Rogers - First Christmas. It really tells about the unfortunate people that don't great Christmas like most of us do. Really touching piece of music. Was just listening to the song a few minutes ago. Where's that Kleenex. Steven |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Hillheader Date: 03 Nov 01 - 08:13 AM Just read this thread and it brought so many songs to mind. Two modern songs spring instantly to mind -- "The Bravest" and "There were Roses". "Fields of Athenry" (sung slowly - not the upbeat version) and "Carrickfergus" because a friend asked me to learn it and then died two weeks after hearing me sing it for the first time. (The two events were not related before anyone asks!!) I still sing "Carrickfergus" but struggle to get the last line out. Great thread Davebhoy
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: The Hiker Date: 03 Nov 01 - 08:25 AM Thom Moores song about the Falklands War "San Carlos Water" And since Sept 11 I can't listen to God Bless America without filling up. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Maxine Date: 03 Nov 01 - 10:56 AM The Boxer by Simon & Garfunkel. A really close friend of ours was killed in a car crash in August. He was 37 with a young family. Tragic. Boy, could he play The Boxer... |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Stilly River Sage Date: 03 Nov 01 - 11:51 AM The Great Silky always got to me, even as a child. And my father put a Eugene Field poem to music, "Little Boy Blue," that still breaks me up.
I don't know if the tune he used was original or borrowed from elsewhere. I don't remember hearing other songs use it.
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Red Eye Date: 04 Nov 01 - 09:00 AM Carrickfergus |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: gnomad Date: 05 Nov 01 - 09:26 AM Somewhere along the road..that one usually does it. Dancing at Whitsun..the best, or worst, rendition you can find..even just remembering it. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,Adrienne Date: 05 Nov 01 - 10:41 AM "Souvenirs" (Goodman & Prine) Too Old to Die Young (Bo Diddley sang it, but I don't think he wrote it) And there's a song that goes "Where are you going, my little one, pretty one? Where are you going, my baby, my own? Turn around and you're two, turn around and you're four, turn around and you're a schoolgirl going out of the door..." I don't even know what it's called, but just typing the words out makes me cry. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,Adrienne Date: 05 Nov 01 - 02:07 PM I can't believe I said Bo Diddley. It should be Moe Bandy! |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Robin2 Date: 05 Nov 01 - 11:32 PM Oh gosh, I'm sniffling just reading everyone's sad songs. Yep, I've cryed to quite a few of the ones mentioned.Some that I can't listen to without blubbering: "The Jeanie-C" by Stan Rogers I don't think there is much sadder than a proud man whose lost it all "The bravest" by Tom Paxton When I first heard it I thought it was a little maudlin, by the second verse I was crying my eyes out "Don't Cry in your sleep" "Christmas in the Trenches" And finally, "Shenadoah" played on harmonica..this was the song my father always played on his harp. He is dying now of asbestosis, but I wish I could hear him play it again Robin |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: CapriUni Date: 05 Nov 01 - 11:49 PM I've only truly wept at a song (as in open-up-your-throat-and-howl) when I heard Mary Chapin Capenter's "Down at the Twist and Shout" come over the radio. (My mother had just died, and she'd loved Cajun music). Other songs have brought serious lumps to my throat, though, if not tears to my eyes, and, like gnomad, I've been gotten by "Dancing at Whitsun". I also get misty-eyed and lumpy-throated at nearly all of Gordon Bok's album Sea Djiril's Hymn.
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Leeder Date: 06 Nov 01 - 12:19 AM My dad used to sing a song called "Play in Your Own Back Yard" that used to move me to tears when I was young (in a time when boys didn't do that sort of thing). You don't hear it nowadays -- it's about a black child who isn't allowed to play with the white children, and dies of loneliness as a consequence, and it has the non-PC words (although it's anti-racist at heart). The other night an elderly lady sang a verse of it at the singers' circle; I managed to control the floodgates, but only just. And, I confess, "Old Shep" used to do it for me too. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Red Eye Date: 01 Jan 02 - 04:44 AM A few songs last night reflected events over the last year. We entered the New Year last night with a heart rendering endition of 'The Star Spangled Banner'. There wasn't a dry eye in the Irish Club. England. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,the saddest mommy in the world Date: 11 May 04 - 09:34 PM Listening to "Merry Christmas,Darling" by Karen Carpenter breaks my heart even more..if that is even possible. GOD BLESS MY TWO CHILDREN IN HEAVEN! I LOVE YOU MIKEY AND JOSH!! |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Ebbie Date: 11 May 04 - 10:41 PM I surprised myself with a great gulping sob the first time I heard a friend of mine sing a Jesse Winchester song that is about the paradox of needing to be weak in order to be strong. It is such a tender song that I still get all choked up when I hear it. Excuse me- I'm going to go look for the lyrics. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,ToryJane Date: 11 May 04 - 10:53 PM A recent one -- The Scarlet Tide (by T Bone Burnett & Elvis Costello, sung by Alison Krause). Written about the US Civil War but heartbreakingly relevant today. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: DonMeixner Date: 11 May 04 - 11:13 PM Two songs by Biff Rose, "Molly" and "Just Like A Man" Don |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: pdq Date: 11 May 04 - 11:42 PM "Jack and Lucy" by Delia Bell & Bill Grant. Hard to get throught that one some nights. BTW, the song "Too Old To Die Young" may be written by Jim Eanes, a fine singer and underrated writer, usually associated with bluegrass. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: dianavan Date: 12 May 04 - 12:01 AM The Belfast Mill chokes me. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: GUEST,Jon Bartlett Date: 12 May 04 - 01:58 AM Hamish Henderson's "Freedom Come All Ye". Every time. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: dianavan Date: 12 May 04 - 02:13 AM When my baby brother was an infant, my other brother and I would stand by his crib, and in our sweetest harmony, sing, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" while we watched silent tears stream down his cheeks. We felt so powerful! We would often perform this bit of magic for our friends. Talk about the power of song! We have long since confessed this bit of mischief. We shake our heads at some of the nasty things we did as children but you know, when we are all together, once in awhile, we will start singing that song, just to watch the younger one squirm. We will never know why it had that effect, he certainly did not understand the words. It still makes him sad. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Rasener Date: 12 May 04 - 02:38 AM Cat Stevens - Don't be shy It is a beatiful song and is one I have called my Autistic daughters song. Don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by Don't wear fear or nobody will know you're there Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead And don't be shy, just let your feeling roll on by On by You know love is better than a song Love is where all of us belong So don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by Don't wear fear or nobody will know you're there You're there Don't be shy just let your feelings roll on by Don't wear fear or nobody will know you're there Just lift your head, and let your feelings out instead And don't be shy, just let your feeling roll on by On by, on by, on by, on by, etc. Anybody that knows anything about Autism, will hopefully know what I mean. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Nfkfiddler Date: 12 May 04 - 03:30 AM If you've lost your own it has to be "The Old Man". How can Finbar Furey sing this? 'I thought he'd live for ever he was so big and strong' 'and I miss him, the Old Man ' credits to Phil Coulter - he understood. |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: oldsalty Date: 12 May 04 - 05:59 AM John Prine's-sam stone,is a killer,but Alan Bell's-The Parting Glass is the one,i've never got through the first verse without faking a coughing do! |
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Subject: RE: Song that make you weep From: Snuffy Date: 12 May 04 - 08:47 AM A few songs about war: Dancing at Whitsun; D-Day Dodgers; Home Lads Home. But I also often have difficulty getting through The Foggy Foggy Dew, and even (occasionally) Goodnight, Irene WassaiL! V |
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