# Anybody up for a good cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199 "2009-02-03T01:56:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/1 "2009-02-03T01:56:48Z")
First, listen to this recording of [Danny Boy.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egwMaRC9Psc). I want this played at my funeral. What is it about Danny Boy that brings tears even to the non-Irish? Then, read [this article](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008695378_apwadyingtogether.html) from the Seattle Times. Go on! I dare ya! šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/2 "2009-02-03T02:48:51Z")
Wow. That song always makes me cry. But I was getting by with only a lump in my throat, reading the articleā€¦ until the last line. _sniffle, sob_ Very beautiful and bittersweet story! ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/3 "2009-02-03T03:07:35Z")
I prefer [this rendition](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU) of Danny Boy šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/4 "2009-02-03T03:12:44Z")
**MacTech** , thatā€™s hysterical! I feel better now. šŸ™‚ **chanteuse** , wasnā€™t it sweet? 62 years married and they still liked each other. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/5 "2009-02-03T03:14:15Z")
I love the song, my favourite version is by Johnny Cash. It is so ubiquitous one forgets how beautiful the air, the words are. If you like that, you may like [this](http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=VgGP2ylvYPs). ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/6 "2009-02-03T03:26:17Z")
At my motherā€™s funeral a few months ago, after the Mass and at the graveside, my cousin Dennis sng Danny Boy. Heā€™s a wonderful tenor. But, like all the men in my motherā€™s family, he starts breaking up shortly after starting the song. SO you have about 40 people joining in on a beautiful fall day, singing Danny Boy in front of an open grave. It was memorable. StG ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/7 "2009-02-03T03:31:58Z")
I often wonder if my wifeā€™s parents will go like that. Theyā€™ve been married for 54 years, and despite the fact that senile dementia has reduced my mother-in-law to a hostile, hysterical, paranoid, and berating demon who canā€™t even remember events that occurred five minutes ago, her husband still loves her and holds her hand in bed every night. It would not surprise me in the least if they died simultaneously. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/8 "2009-02-03T04:40:15Z")
Sorry, Iā€™ve got a fair amount of Irish in me; Iā€™ve never liked that song. But hey, if itā€™s your song, more power to you. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/9 "2009-02-03T16:34:14Z")
Is it a common song to be played at funerals in the US? I donā€™t think it would be that common here for that purpose. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/10 "2009-02-03T17:01:07Z")
**An Gadai** , I donā€™t know if itā€™s a common funeral song, but I think it should be. My second choice is from Springsteen, the one with the lyric ā€œIf I should fall behind, wait for me.ā€ That one makes me cry too. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/11 "2009-02-03T17:05:22Z")
I donā€™t know if it is popular. I do know that when we requested that it be sung at my fatherā€™s Catholic funeral mass, the best they could do was play a very restrained music-only version on the church organ. It still made me weep. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/12 "2009-02-03T17:10:47Z")
**An Gadai** - It wasnā€™t sung because itā€™s common, it was sung because my mother used to call Dennis and make him sing it for her. My cousin Dennis is one of my Uncle Jimā€™s 9 kids. They all sing, but Dennis is the best. We asked him to sing it in remembrance. StG ---
**Author:** ![FarmerChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@FarmerChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FarmerChick)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-up-for-a-good-cry/484199/13 "2009-02-03T17:26:11Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **An Gadai** , I donā€™t know if itā€™s a common funeral song, but I think it should be. My second choice is from Springsteen, the one with the lyric ā€œIf I should fall behind, wait for me.ā€ That one makes me cry too. [Bruce](http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=qSAevK9__3k)