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

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I added some thoughts on the song I mentioned in that OP in a later thread:

IMHO, "Your Song" is the greatest love song written to date.

(I thought of the following after the edit window closed.) The character singing Marie has some of the same awkwardness that the singer of Your Song has, although in a much darker vein. In the second verse he praises Marie with some rather unpoetical metaphors: You’re the song that the trees sing When the wind blows You’re a flower, you’re a river You’re a rainbow. No serious poet or lyricist would put these words down in a love song. I think of them as “dumb-guy poetry.” But in their unad…