# Crying songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957>\
**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:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/41 "2007-05-09T03:42:48Z")

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“Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails makes me tear up. It’s so beautiful and sad. The Johnny Cash version tears me up a little more since he is at the end of his life and so the words have more meaning for me.

Hurt by NIN:

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSWRicWIy4)

Hurt by Johnny Cash:

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9dbmJ_2zU)

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/42 "2007-05-09T21:22:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Pochacco]  
Marianne Faithfull’s **Ballad of Lucy Jordan**  
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What a brilliant song. It makes me sad and angry and then happy that she’s free in some sense at the end.

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**Author:** ![UKCatGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@UKCatGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UKCatGirl)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/43 "2007-05-09T22:24:00Z")

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“[Top of the World](http://artists.letssingit.com/dixie-chicks-lyrics-top-of-the-world-p8751fm)” by the Dixie Chicks. It’s from the point of view of a man who realizes too late that he broke his wife’s spirit and the regret he feels about it.

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**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/44 "2007-05-09T22:38:29Z")

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I can’t believe no one thought of _Whiskey Lullaby_, a duet by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. I’m ashamed that I didn’t think of it earlier either.

Other Country songs I forgot to mention earlier are _He Stopped Loving Her Today_ by George Jones, _Holy Water_ by Big and Rich, _The Bed_ by Gretchen Wilson, and _If You Don’t Wanna Love Me_ by Cowboy Troy.

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**Author:** ![guppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7feea3/32.png) [@guppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guppy)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crying-songs/402957/45 "2007-05-09T22:58:11Z")

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In the country vein I’d say _There Stand’s the Glass_ by Webb Pierce.

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