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

[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

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

[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

[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

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

[Cliff Rogers]

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