# Crying songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957 "2007-05-06T04:54:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/1 "2007-05-06T04:54:03Z")
Right now, my favorite song on the radio is Emerson Drive’s “Moments”. It’s so beautiful. I’m curious…what songs make you cry (or at least move you extemely). ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/2 "2007-05-06T05:02:04Z")
Dixie Chicks singing “Travellin’ Soldier”. Forrester Sisters’ “Letter Home”. I guess it’s the country ones that tear me up. ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/3 "2007-05-06T08:39:53Z")
_The Band Played Waltzing Matilda_. June Tabor’s version is about the best, closely followed by The Pogues’. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/4 "2007-05-06T11:41:57Z")
Totally kitchy, but I have to say Puff the Magic Dragon… Others include Both Sides Now (Jodi Mitchell), Separate Lives (Phil Collins) and The Blower’s Daughter (Damien Rice). ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/5 "2007-05-06T12:30:14Z")
Moved from IMHO to CS. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/6 "2007-05-06T15:37:13Z")
Rascall Flatts’ “Skin” can still make me cry. I agree about “Moments” although I didn’t really listen to the words at first and couldn’t figure out why the old guy was bragging in the last verse. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/7 "2007-05-06T15:45:26Z")
(Oingo) Boingo’s “Can’t See (Useless)” - relentlessly heartwrenching ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/8 "2007-05-06T15:49:36Z")
I always feel a little wrench in my heart when I hear a specific piece of _Guenevere_, from\*\* Camelot\*\*: \*In that dawn, in that gloom More than love met its doom In the dying candle’s gleam Came the sundown of a dream Guenevere, Guenevere In that dim, mournful year Saw the men she held most dear Go to war for Guenevere\* ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/9 "2007-05-06T15:57:12Z")
C’mon back truckers and talk to [“Teddy Bear”.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Sovine) ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/10 "2007-05-06T16:40:06Z")
Warren Zevon’s _Keep Me in your Heart for Awhile_ . ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/11 "2007-05-06T16:40:55Z")
I can’t stand to listen to _Where’d You Go_ by Fort Minor all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/12 "2007-05-06T17:31:26Z")
_In the Arms of the Angels_ It was popular when my son died 7 years ago. I still can’t listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/13 "2007-05-06T20:39:07Z")
[Rebecca Go Home](http://www.thelostdogs.com/lyrics/gifthorse/rebeccagohome.html) ---
**Author:** ![1point618](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/c57346/32.png) [@1point618](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1point618)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/14 "2007-05-06T21:09:48Z")
Jeff Buckley’s _Lover, You Should Have Come Over_. Pinback’s _Loro_. Regina Spektor’s _Better_. ---
**Author:** ![sasdaisy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sasdaisy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sasdaisy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/15 "2007-05-07T03:17:42Z")
Wish You Were Here - by some country artist (Mark Wills?) Last Kiss - by ??? not the re-done (Pearl Jam?) version, tho’ I don’t know artists, obviously ---
**Author:** ![Subterraneanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Subterraneanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subterraneanus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/16 "2007-05-07T03:28:31Z")
Lately it’s been this: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WHKHFpoFCZI/hqdefault.jpg "Joe Strummer "Redemption Song" Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHKHFpoFCZI) ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/17 "2007-05-07T03:30:26Z")
**Crying** by Roy Orbison always makes me… you know… wonder how he sang that high. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/18 "2007-05-07T06:46:49Z")
“Never Without You” by Ringo Starr, his tribute to George Harrison. Eric Clapton plays lead guitar on it in a style eerily reminiscent of George. It’s a bittersweet song, not that sad, but more like bringing back memories of the Fab Four. It has a definite Traveling Wilburys sound to it, also. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/19 "2007-05-07T07:06:45Z")
Whithout You by Nillson. Does it every time. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/20 "2007-05-07T07:14:13Z")
[Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nickcavethebadseeds/wheredowegonowbutnowhere.html) by Nick Cave. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957.md?page=2)