# 'Fess up! What mawkishly sentimental song makes you cry?

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**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")
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### Author: ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2023, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fess-up-what-mawkishly-sentimental-song-makes-you-cry/991179/71 "2023-10-07T13:33:54Z")

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I started a similar thread 18 years ago.

> [@What songs make you cry?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347):
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> I was listening to A Prairie Home Companion this morning, a rebroadcast with Randy Newman. He sang [Marie](http://randy-newman.the-lyrics.com/marie-009247.html), a song I have heard many times before (although not for quite a while). I was eating my breakfast, and as Randy came to the chorus, I loved you the first time I saw you, And I always will love you, Marie, I just burst out in tears. I’m a 50-year old guy, not terribly sentimental, not depressed, not given to emotional outbursts, and, no, I’ve never been in love with someone named Marie. B…

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