# 'Fess up! What mawkishly sentimental song makes you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [October 6, 2023, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179 "2023-10-06T06:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/41 "2023-10-06T18:58:26Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Warren Zevon - “Keep Me In Your Heart” > (especially knowing it’s the last song he recorded before he died) I almost put this one down, but then thought it maybe deserves a separate category (along with Queen’s “These Are The Days Of Our Lives”) of songs that deserve their own category of “songs that make you weep because you know the singer knew that they were on death’s door when they sang/wrote it.” ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/42 "2023-10-06T19:18:34Z")
Helen Reddy “You and Me Against the World” And when one of us is gone And one of us is left to carry on Then remembering will have to do Our memories alone will get us through Think about the days of me and you You and me against the world I love you, mommy I love you too, baby ---
**Author:** ![Nyvaak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Nyvaak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nyvaak)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/43 "2023-10-06T19:18:56Z")
Heck, the song doesn’t even have to be that mawkish 'cause I’m a hugely oversentimental crybaby. But for true mawkishness and a flood of tears from yours truly, it would have to be _Killkenny, Ireland_. All the verses get to me, but I can never even manage to sing the final: _And it’s funny the way he kept talking about you,_ _He called for you in the end._ _Oh, why don’t you think about coming to visit,_ _We’d all love to see you again._ 'Scuse me. I have to go find Kleenex. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/44 "2023-10-06T19:38:49Z")
These two always choke me up: “The Punch and Judy Man” > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWTLfvhaNo&list=RDAKWTLfvhaNo&start\_radio=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKWTLfvhaNo&list=RDAKWTLfvhaNo&start_radio=1) “The Streets of London” > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKMlzBwISCM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKMlzBwISCM) ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/45 "2023-10-06T19:42:15Z")
Dang! Ninjaed! It’s a shame that this is on one of his “less popular” albums. I’ve heard him perform it live only once. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/46 "2023-10-06T19:51:23Z")
Unchained Melody (in the movie _Ghost_) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/47 "2023-10-06T20:03:15Z")
_Cat’s in the Cradle_ by Harry Chapin. When I first heard it I was in college, and starting a family was a very distant possibility that I spent no time thinking about, but I still thought that this was one of the saddest songs I’d ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/48 "2023-10-06T20:35:37Z")
Two Scottish dweebs break me up: > [@](#): > > When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be > I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next to you > When I go out, yeah, I know I’m gonna be > I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you > If I get drunk, well, I know I’m gonna be > I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you > And If I haver, hey, I know I’m gonna be > I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you > > But I would walk 500 miles > And I would walk 500 more > Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles > To fall down at your door ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/49 "2023-10-06T20:43:29Z")
[Little Green](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBT4MYbX4io) by Joni Mitchell. A song about her daughter that she put up for adoption. [Solitude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmV8niW5GXs) by Black Sabbath. A really sad & depressing song. I played it over and over after my mother died. (I love the bass line, and learned how to play it on my bass.) ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/50 "2023-10-06T20:46:00Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Two Scottish dweebs break me up: even more so, [“sunshine on Leith”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7NYX1TOgs) And another one related to Richard Thompson is [“who knows where the time goes”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOB57UcYk8) by Fairport Convention. Oh, and “[Superstar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmmaIGiGBg)” by the Carpenters. Oh, and [“It’s gonna be lonely”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH9Ww3PTOKE) by Prince. Now I think of it I reckon I must have a playlist jam-packed with weepies. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/51 "2023-10-06T21:01:09Z")
Another one that rips me apart is Melanie’s “[I Really Loved Harold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA-CzBKQrzM)” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/52 "2023-10-06T21:53:28Z")
The [Heart of the Matter](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRrT37ruAtE) by Don Henley Hey, you asked. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/53 "2023-10-06T22:05:19Z")
How much is not enough, how much is though? How long will I be getting over you? How much grief and sin, till the heart caves in? KD Lang ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/54 "2023-10-06T22:21:15Z")
If this is about any song that makes us cry, I have a long list! I just gave you the goofy one. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/55 "2023-10-06T23:01:53Z")
This… and When You Come Back to Me Again. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/56 "2023-10-06T23:06:55Z")
[Tank Park Salute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx-dtJ4Oovc) by Billy Bragg ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/57 "2023-10-06T23:12:15Z")
[The Wreck of the Carl D. Bradley](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsGnwkon1cI&list=FLkKiDfuotcMiliNjptWCnsg&index=19) “Nothing you can do said the captain to the crew The weather it was cold And the Bradley’s getting old and there’s nothing that you can do, Mr. Fleming” 33 sailors died that night, across the lake from where I lived then and still live now. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/58 "2023-10-06T23:45:19Z")
“Flora’s Secret” > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFYv2uopwkY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFYv2uopwkY) _Loving in the long grass_ _Close beside her_ _Whispering of love_ _And the way it leaves them_ _Lying in the long grass_ _In the sunlight_ _They believe it’s true love_ “A Summer Song” > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98QXArLBuE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c98QXArLBuE) _Trees swaying in the summer breeze_ _showing off their silver leaves_ _as we walked by._ _Soft kisses on a summer’s day_ _laughing all our cares away_ _just you and I._ _Sweet sleepy warmth of summer nights_ _gazing at the distant lights_ _in the starry sky._ Dedicated to Gina, Summer 1975. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/59 "2023-10-07T00:47:36Z")
A couple of songs come to mind–the don’t really make me cry, but they certainly trigger an overwhelming feeling of wistfulness: _“[The Boys Of Summer](https://youtu.be/6RUIeX6UCT8)”_ and _“[Hackensack](https://youtu.be/xfsjiMsRMtI)”_ ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/60 "2023-10-07T01:10:06Z")
Three that always do it for me, regardless of who’s singing: “Willy McBride” AKA “No Man’s Land” AKA “The Green Hills of France” “The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” “Killkelly, Ireland” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179.md?page=4)