Seriously now....what songs make you cry ?

[JDarvall]

:( ..(sniff)... for me at the moment its.....'Desperado', by the Eagles.

Heard it on the radio, and its been bouncing around my head for two days now and I just can't shake it !....Its horrible. I'm crying at work. I'm crying in bed, hell, I'm even crying in the shed !

Its just that last bit that gets me..uno,

You beta let somebody LUUUUV you ! let somebody love you ....beeeefore its tooooooooo late .......

Anybody else having that problem ?

[Zed]

u soft bastard!:rolleyes:

[Groggy]

Someones been breathing shellac fumes....:p

Don't think I've cried for 30 years, the well's dry apparently.

[oges]

Not exactly crying, but since hearing the last post (not really a song I guess) at my pops funeral it always makes me think about him

[NewLou]

Stop eatin those bad apricots tripper..................or yeah and dodge the mushrooms too:p

REgards Lou

[CameronPotter]

Apricot...

Don't you just feel the love? :p

Now just to top this all off, we need Gumby to come in and wish you a happy birthday (or maybe wish you an unhappy birthday). :D

[scooter]

Doesn't make me cry exactly, Jake, but the voice does go a bit when we sing
"Will you love me?" (a hymn at mass), makes me think of my Nan & Pa's funerals.

"Butterfly Kisses" - Haven't heard the song, but the lyrics capture the father-daughter bond nicely I reckon.


Cheers..............Sean, softy :)

[ozwinner]

Seriously now....what songs make you cry ?

Anything by Celine Deon.

God she is so awful, my missus loves her.
The horse that sings..........


Seriously.
Hyway to Hell by AC/DC.http://www.ubeaut.biz/laughdevil.gif

When I watch the video clip of Bon Scott wasting away.
What a waste of talent.

Al http://www.ubeaut.biz/fireman.gif

[Ashore]

" The Old Man " by the Fureys, gets me every time not to tears but just to remember and miss him sum more.:(

Jesus jake your realy opening up a kyogle man? who wears Raulph Lauren and polo shirts, drives a model "T" and bursts into tears listerning to old music, whats next you gonna paint your shed in heritage sensitive pastals or only drink chardonnay and nibble cucumber sandwiches without the crusts:eek:

[Gumby]

We are the navy blues,
We are the old dark navy blues,
We're the team that never lets you down,

etc etc

#### I hate that song. Cried many times on the last day in September when they played that, particularly 1970 :( :( :(
No danger of it in the near future though :D :D :D :D


" The Old Man " by the Fureys, gets me every time not to tears but just to remember and miss him sum more.:( :

hey, that's one of mine too. My old man had a stroke and lived as a vegetable for the last 10 years of his life, a burden on Mum. I listen to that and could get a bit misty sometimes.

[echnidna]

We are the navy blues,
We are the old dark navy blues,
We're the team that never lets you down,

etc etc

#### I hate that song. Cried many times on the last day in September when they played that, particularly 1970 :( :( :(
No danger of it in the near future though :D :D :D :D

The other tune Gumby hates is

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO GUMBY

Prob'ly makes im cry:D

[Termite]

If I drink brandy just about anything will set me off. :o

[craigb]

:( ..(sniff)... for me at the moment its.....'Desperado', by the Eagles.



Why?
Because it's such a crap song?

[Lignum]

Not sad but Jeff Buckley's version of Halejulah is a very emotional and beautifull song.

Joan of Ark by Leonard Cohen (Jennifer Warne cover is the ultimate)

and ditto to The Old Man - beautifull song, great album.

And special mention for "Send in The Clowns" by Norman Gunston:(

[JDarvall]

Jesus jake your realy opening up a kyogle man? who wears Raulph Lauren and polo shirts, drives a model "T" and bursts into tears listerning to old music, whats next you gonna paint your shed in heritage sensitive pastals or only drink chardonnay and nibble cucumber sandwiches without the crusts:eek:

Boy, you don't miss much. Spose your right. Must be relaxing my manly exterior a bit too much. Unless I'm taking the wrong medication :confused: (have to check that)..... anyway, whats the go with the cucumber sandwiches ? Don't the slices go over me eyes, whilst getting a facial.....oh, I get it. Its after the facial that you stick em in the sandwiches ..

[ele__13]

:) songs that make jules cry well on angels wings ( the michael crawford version ) was played when a wonderful friend was drowned in an accident the steet where u live always reminds me of my dad , and the day the music died reminds me of my friend mat who died 2 young .... :(:(:(:(

[savage]

Has to be "Amazing Grace", played at my Dads funeral, and I like "Spirit in the Sky" (want that played at mine), if not same as Dads but played by a lone piper.

[Ashore]

Has to be "Amazing Grace", played at my Dads funeral, and I like "Spirit in the Sky" (want that played at mine), if not same as Dads but played by a lone piper.
Just a thought a forum member with a plane doing the the top of you coffin whistling it ..... could be the lone planer

[ss_11000]

i didnt no songs can make u cry......

[Termite]

i didnt no songs can make u cry......
Its usually the memories associated with the song that does it. May you never have a song do it to you. ;)

[Shedhand]

Albinoni's Adagio = 11 mins 27 secs of heart-rending art. I always get a painful lump in my throught when I listen to it. :o

[ss_11000]

Its usually the memories associated with the song that does it.

that makes sense...:cool:

[E. maculata]

Lightning crashes
A extremely close group of motorcycle mad blokes slowly fragmented and seperated after we buried the youngest, it was played at his funeral.............. 11 years ago this weekend he was killed, we drove past his body for 5 days before we found him.

[Bob38S]

"A Walk in the Light Green" better known under the title of "I Was Only 19" by Redgum

My marble didn't come out that month but for those who did ........

Bob

[black1]

any bag pipe music as me old man loved em(he died 1991)

[RufflyRustic]

Amazing Grace gets me every single time.

I tend to assign a particular song to a particular time in my life for example: one of Queen's instrumentals for when my Grandma passed away, another song for when I had my first fight with HWMBO.....

Nearly every song on Queen's Innuendo album will generate a real tear bender too.

[E.Maculata - no disrespect intended]

cheers
Wendy

[MathewA]

Amazing Grace gets me every single time.

I tend to assign a particular song to a particular time in my life for example: one of Queen's instrumentals for when my Grandma passed away, another song for when I had my first fight with HWMBO.....

Nearly every song on Queen's Innuendo album will generate a real tear bender too.

[E.Maculata - no disrespect intended]

cheers
Wendy


You can come over to my house and listen to 23 different versions of Amazing Grace if you'd like (you'll have to bring your own crate of tissues though). Some people collect tools I collect different renditions of Amazing Grace

[Pat]

When the war is over - Cold Chisel. Played at a mates funeral, he drowned surfing.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

"C'est la vie" from the Works(1) album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

First heard it during a particularly bad time when it described things to a tee... and still dredges up serious angst even now.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

You can come over to my house and listen to 23 different versions of Amazing Grace if you'd like (you'll have to bring your own crate of tissues though). Some people collect tools I collect different renditions of Amazing Grace

Best version I've ever heard is by the British Grenadier Guards (or was it the Coldstream Guards?) recorded at one of the Edinburgh Military Tattoos.

Who'd have thought that bagpipes could make such beautiful music as well as scare the pants(kilts?) off the enemy on the battlefiled? :D

[Lignum]

We are the Champions - It was being played as i was carying my brothers coffin

[silentC]

Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
1000 Times - Gomez
Pillar of Davidson - Live
Passenger - Powderfinger

All bring a tear to the eye. No reason, just the music not the words. Big sook :D

When I was a kid it was My Grandfather's Clock. :o

[dan_tom]

Beautiful Day by U2. I took a series of photos from the Changing Gears Harley Davidson bike ride (young women who have survived breast cancer) and presented them at a Cancer Survivors' conference in tune to this song and there wasn't a dry eye in the auditorium...

"It's a beautiful day, don't let it slip away" were the words that gave us all goosebumps.

Cheers
Dan

[TassieKiwi]

Kiri TeKanawa singing 'Po Karekare Ana' - ok, being a kiwi helps here
Johnathan Livingstone Seagull - Neil Diamond
Everybody Hurts - REM (esp after my wife's cousin killed herself)
Forever Young/Rod Stuart. See above
The Living Years - Mike & the Mechanics. Good message here.

Enough.

[doublejay]

This song is about the horses sent overseas during WW1 to serve in the various theatres of war. At the end of the war the Anzacs were ordered to get rid of their horses, the authorities did not want them returning to Australia and perhaps bringing in anthrax or TB or suchlike back into the country.


Most of the horses were sold or given away, but in Palestine the Light Horsemen refused to give or sell their horses to the Arab population of Palestine, and chose instead to shoot them all. Bogle based the song on an actual Light Horseman called Elijah Conn who had a horse in Palestine called Banjo. Elijah never forgot Banjo and for the rest of his life could not talk about him without tears coming to his eyes.

I can't even read it (let alone hear it being sung) without misting up.



AS IF HE KNOWS
It’s as if he knows
He’s standing close to me
His breath warm on my sleeve
His head hung low
It’s as if he knows
What the dawn will bring
The end of everything
For my old Banjo
And all along the picket lines beneath the desert sky
The Light Horsemen move amongst their mates to say one last goodbye
And the horses stand so quietly
Row on silent row
It’s as if they know


Time after time
We rode through shot and shell
We rode in and out of Hell
On their strong backs
Time after time
They brought us safely through
By their swift sure hooves
And their brave hearts
Tomorrow we will form up ranks and march down to the quay
And sail back to our loved ones in that dear land across the sea
While our loyal and true companions
Who asked so little and gave so much
Will lie dead in the dust.


For the orders came
No horses to return
We were to abandon them
To be slaves
After all we’d shared
And all that we’d been through
A Nation’s gratitude
Was a dusty grave
For we can’t leave them to the people here, we’d rather see them dead
So each man will take his best mate’s horse with a bullet through the head
For the people here are like their land
Wild and cruel and hard
So Banjo, here’s your reward.

Copyright Eric Bogle July 2001

[ele__13]

Beautiful Day by U2. I took a series of photos from the Changing Gears Harley Davidson bike ride (young women who have survived breast cancer) and presented them at a Cancer Survivors' conference in tune to this song and there wasn't a dry eye in the auditorium...

"It's a beautiful day, don't let it slip away" were the words that gave us all goosebumps.

Cheers
Dan

It worked brilliant pics Dan :p:D

[RufflyRustic]

You can come over to my house and listen to 23 different versions of Amazing Grace if you'd like (you'll have to bring your own crate of tissues though). Some people collect tools I collect different renditions of Amazing Grace

Wow! Very interesting item to collect - definitely unique.

Yep - totally agree on the crate of tissues, might be wise to make it pallet load instead
cheers
Wendy

[maglite]

Give my love to Rose - Johnny Cash

[stevebaby]

"The Living Years"..Mike and the Mechanics,I heard it on the radio as I was going to the hospital when my Dad died.It's guaranteed to wreck me,but it brings back a few happy memories too.
And because it's Anzac Day..."...and the Band Played Waltzing Matilda",Eric Bogle.The most moving song about war I've ever heard.
"The Flowers of the Forest",about the bodies of the dead warriors being taken home after the Battle of (I think) Bannockburn,but of universal relevance.A lone piper played it at my grandfather's funeral.The most haunting and sad bagpipe music of all,but also the most beautiful.
(Sniff,sniff...Waaaaah)

[stevebaby]

Kiri TeKanawa singing 'Po Karekare Ana' - ok, being a kiwi helps here
Johnathan Livingstone Seagull - Neil Diamond
Everybody Hurts - REM (esp after my wife's cousin killed herself)
Forever Young/Rod Stuart. See above
The Living Years - Mike & the Mechanics. Good message here.

Enough."Po Karekare Ana"...Lovely song.
"God Defend New Zealand"...brings a small tear to my eye because it usually prefaces a shellacking for the Wallabies.

[Wild Dingo]

Reguritating an old thread I know but hey Im in and out like a friggin yoyo so I catch em as I can :D

For me the biggest tear jerker is...

Sunshine by John Denver... first heard it as I sat holding a girlfriends hand as she passed away... we were heading to Perth from Carnarvon for a holiday she had taken her car I mine as she had to return to work before me, I was following her and as we went around a bend just after the Billabong roadhouse a semi trailers back trailer swerved across and collected her... we were on the side of the road late at night in the rain the cars totaled and shes broken but the radio plays bloody "Sunshine" as my girl faded and left me ... most terrible night of my life :( I still see her clear as day if I ever hear "Sunshine"... its been banned in my home ever since and still is. (her highness is cool with it although she loves the album... respect you know?)

Danny boy also does me in... First time I played it at a funeral was my granddads in Adelaide and although I managed to get through without falling apart when I played it at my mums funeral a couple of years ago my sisters and brother had to come up to help me finish it... ended up sounding okay and the fact that all her kids had sung it together was pretty cool she would have liked that

Years ago I used to play lead and some vocals in a band up north mostly funny songs beer songs old man emu guitar man out behind the shed fun stuff you know... we used to do a lot of Dr Hook for hysterics value... and there was one that was a sort of one of those "not done" songs called "One more year of lollipops" about a dad whos daughter has a year to live... I made it a song we wouldnt cover since I knew I would bawl my heart out as I always did when I heard it or tried to sing it... until the drummer and his girlfriend lost their little 8 year old son to Luekemia and I was asked to sing it both at the funeral and at the first gig after... man talk about a blubbering mess... but luckily the others picked me up and carried the song... I still cant sing it or hear it without crying for that gorgeous little fella gone so young :(

Your right its the memories and emotions that the words conjure in ones mind that sets the tears to flowing... I can listen to Amazing Grace without a murmur but put on any of those above and Im history

[Andy Mac]

Yep, certain songs can take you back, and albums too. I remember Dad bringing home Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge over troubled water" from Perth one time, I think after a trip to the hospital for leukemia treatment. I was about 11 or 12, and he died not long after. I haven't listened to it for years though.
I get a bit of lump in the throat from listening to the Indigo Girls doing a version of 'Romeo and Juliette', the Dire Straits song. They do it well, acoustic, with passion and pain writ large!

Cheers,

[Tonyz]

Very interesting Ive never read this thought before but tonight iam sitting here blubbing me eyes out cause daughter no1 has just had to put her 2 dogs down after a massive fight and with 2 little gandkids around.... well... you guys know it all. But to see that through all the tough provado hype of aussie men we still all have very soft hearts. I am PROUD to be part of you lot Tonto

[Lignum]

Sorry to hear that Tonto:( its gut wrenching loosing a family pet(s) and especialy in such horid curcumstances. Some years back i had to put my beloved dog Shaitan down and driving home from the vet i wasnt up to listening to dj crap on the radio so i put it onto ABC Clasical FM and Dawn Upshore was on and her version of Gorecki's 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. That has to be the most emotional peice i have ever heard. Even to this day i carnt help my self and have alot of tears when i hear it. A beautiful song:o

[Cliff Rogers]

http://www.zaxpax.com/exercise.htm :(

[Wongo]

Watching the Titanic and listening to Celine Dion’s singing endlessly makes me cry.

:D

[HappyHammer]

Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Amazing Grace - Gospel

And as you bought up movies Wongo, The Champ, Jon Voight.

HH.

[Iain]

Come ye Sons of Art, magnificent counter tenor piece.

[Pat]

Iron Maiden - The Clansman

[Rossluck]

This was aparently written after Eric's son was killed after falling out of a window. You can hear the pain when he sings it.



Tears In Heaven

by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?

I'll find my way
Through night and day,
'Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven.

Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.

Beyond the door,
There's peace I'm sure,
And I know there'll be no more
Tears in heaven.

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?

I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

[Ivan in Oz]

G'Day Ppl,

Quite a few Songs by Leonard Cohen:cool:
OK!!
I'm still playing 'Catch UP'

for some reason,
many Middle Eastern DOCTORS like his songs as well:confused:

My Heart Surgeon got me on to his music:o

[BrettC]

Yep, been listening to 'Walk in the Light Green' for the last few days - Must have been the Gin on the week-end...
You wouldn't let ya mates down until they had ya dusted off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw&mode=related&search=)

Saw Anzac Day parade in George St year before last - was unbelievable, never seen it in that light before.

[Article99]

Pub with no Beer.. :-

The concept of it all still gives me nightmares... :C

[tameriska]

The one song that makes me almost cry every time is Sunday Morning Coming Down, by Johnny Cash. This was one of my fathers favorite songs (other than the Purple People Eater) and the one that I had played at his funeral.

I have been a Johnny Cash fan for years was brought up on the "older" music, and the videoclip he made of Hurt is also hard to watch.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Anything by Cyndi Lauper... usually tears of angst and frustration, especially if I can't get to the on/off switch. :o

[joe greiner]

I get a bit misty over "Procession of the Sardar" by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. 'Twas my late Dad's favourite, and now one of mine. Very stirring march music; best played at maximum volume. Similar for "Amazing Grace" of course. A while back someone mentioned bagpipe music scaring the bejabbers out of the enemy; as I understand it, that's why they used it.

Joe

[Bleedin Thumb]

G'Day Ppl,

Quite a few Songs by Leonard Cohen:cool:
OK!!
I'm still playing 'Catch UP'

for some reason,
many Middle Eastern DOCTORS like his songs as well:confused:

My Heart Surgeon got me on to his music:o


I would have thought Mr Cohen would have apealled more to a shrink!
I must admit to being a LC fan as well.

For me its :

The Randall Knife by Guy Clark.

[silentC]

Bagpipes send a chill up the back of my neck. I'm listening to some right now as I type this (Under the Milkyway by The Church - have to learn it for a gig).

[Bob38S]

"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

Words by Eric Bogle but I prefer the version sung by Doug Ashdown - a very great, underrated and often forgotten Aussie singer

[Doughboy]

Anything by Celine Dion makes me cry


........... not because they are masterpeices but because I can not believe that some dumb-ass record exec thinks that her music is original and worthy. OMG:oo:

[Christopha]

Anything by Celine Dion makes me cry


........... not because they are masterpeices but because I can not believe that some dumb-ass record exec thinks that her music is original and worthy. OMG:oo:

AGREED!


ANY country noise (I refuse to call it music!) makes me cry because it makes me realise how many stoopid people are out there!
;)

"19" makes me misty and Harry Chapins' music makes me think....

[Doughboy]

Up here in Qld we play both sorts of music!! Country ..... and .............. western. Sad but true.

[Lignum]

The music of "Row row row" to the lyrics "Oh Where from..." Thats a half a Kleenex box every time i hear it:-

[mic-d]

pretty much any hym at the Dawn Service especially Abide with me. And the Last Post. Everyone should go to a dawn service once in their lives.
:C

Cheers
Michael

[JDarvall]

pretty much any hym at the Dawn Service especially Abide with me. And the Last Post. Everyone should go to a dawn service once in their lives.
:C

Cheers
Michael

definetly.

[glock40sw]

Anything from Neil Diamond makes me cry tears of blood.
That mongrel should have been thrown of a cliff before he learnt to sing.

My brother and I drove from Warren to Brisbane and the only tape in his ute was bloody Neil Diamond. I threw it it out the window by the time we hit Guyra.
He got the shitz and we drove the rest of the way with me singing Metallica's Enter Sandman and him constantly telling me to shut the fluck up.

Note to self: Must ring brother and give him the shitz.

[Gingermick]

drag up an old thread if I may?
I watched Watership Down when I was about 8 then heard 'Bright Eyes' by Art Garfunkel (from the movie) on the radio and cried.
More recently Queen 'Who wants to love forever' brought a tear after the missus left, she's back now though. And I didn't have to sell the house:)

[Clinton1]

try "Haunted" by Sinead O'Connor and Shane McGowan (from the Pogues)

[Shedgirl]

For me, it's 'We Are One', from the soundtrack of The Lion King 2. We played it at the funeral of our eldest child, Ben, who died of cancer when he was 4. It was his favourite, and very appropriate, and when the lion cub sang his part the whole room balled. I still put it on and cry when I miss him too much; always feel better for it.

'Tears in Heaven', because I can relate to it. It is such a perfect encapsulation of the feeling of losing a child ( and because it came on the radio on the second anniversary of Ben's death, as I was giving birth to his brother Abel, and made me weep and swear even more than I was already).

'Danny Boy', because it's a great old heartbreaker of a song, and because I used to sing "Benny Boy" to get my firstborn to sleep as a baby and it turned out to be a bit too close to the bone.

"Don't Ya (wish your girlfriend was Hot like Me)" because it's so damn awful, and my 7 year old daughter won't stop singing it!:oo:

[FXST01]

"You've done us proud" by Slim Dusty, one of my dads favourites, played at his funeral, geez i miss him.