Help: Uplifting Songs

Subject: Uplifting Songs
From: Bluegrass
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 05:42 AM

Sorry if I'm bothering you, but I feel really down and bad at the moment - (no job, debts, girlfriend mad at me etc)

Could really do with some 'everything will be OK' type songs.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Blue

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: CharlieA
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 06:14 AM

Wonderfull song sung by a friend of mine Annie Harding - It's called "Another Train" it's on her tape - not sure where it's for sale but it's a good price and she has the most gorgeous voice i know. Cxxx

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 06:24 AM

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" , by Eric Idle

Murray

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 06:51 AM

COME BY THE HILLS (Music: Traditional Gaelic [Buachaill On Eirne];Words: Gordon Smith)

Come by the hills to the land where fancy is free And stand where the peaks meet the sky and the lochs meet the sea Where the rivers run clear and the bracken is gold in the sun Ah, the cares of to-morrow can wait 'til this day is done

Oh, come by the hills to the land where life is a song And sing while the birds fill the air with their joy all day long Where the trees sway in time and even the wind sings in tune Ah, the cares of to-morrow can wait 'til this day is done

Come by the hills to the land where legend re-mains Where stories of old fill the heart and may yet come a-gain Where our past has been lost and the future has still to be won Ah, the cares of to-morrow can wait 'til this day is done

Ending: repeat first verse

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 08:59 AM

Wow, that last is quite apropos, indeed.

More? I'm feeling quite blue myself...

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 10:13 AM

Songs that pick ME up

Eye of the Tiger, Survivor

Trouble in Mind, Old Blues

Theme from Rocky

Any Beach Boys

Lookin out my Back Door, Down on the Corner, CCR

A Change will do you Good, Sheryl Crow

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: alanww
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 01:14 PM

Sidney Carter's John Ball is one of the most uplifting songs I know. If I get my blue clicky thing right, its here.

"Long live the day that is dawning ...!"
Alan

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: GUEST,Genie
Date: 02 Oct 01 - 08:52 PM

Long Cool Woman In a Black Dress always does it for me -- it's the music, not the words (I can't tell what they are, anyway).

Also, anything by Ladysmith Black Mambasa

Any fast Irish tune with bodhron (sp?)

The Hippopotamus Song

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: Genie
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 02:38 AM

How Can I Keep From Singing?

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: Micca
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 08:43 AM

well, speaking of uplifting songs, I heard "Hen Party" at "Sharpes" (the Tuesday night session at Cecil Sharp House) here in London UK, and they did a very witty song about a Wonderbra that I found very uplifting!!!

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 09:22 AM

"Life Is Good" --Livingston Taylor. "Life is good, when you're proud of what you do----giving your all to others, and it all comes back to you..."

"One Of The Things I Do So Well" --Livingston Taylor "I don't run too fast, I don't jump too high. If someone said I was good-looking, well, that'd be a lie. But there are things I do, that I do the best. I'm number one in smiling, in hoping and in trying!"

"It's My Job" --Mac MacAnally

"Shower The People" --James Taylor

"When I Go" ---Dave Carter

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Oct 01 - 09:36 AM

Micca,

This was a thread that, I believe, was honestly started by someone who's going through a bad time.

I can't see that 'smutty' jokes about wonder-bras that might cause 12 year olds to giggle are in any way helpful.

Maybe I'm wrong

Subject: RE: Help: Uplifting Songs
From: GUEST,Sonja
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 08:11 PM

Gotta vote for "jug band music" by the lovin' spoonful!