To Sir With Love - Lulu
Because you loved me - Celine Dion
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics.
Pie Jésu from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem (don’t laugh).
Aw, damn. Y’all had to bring up country. “Tell Me I Was Dreaming” is about enough to put me in a sobbing fit. Yes, I’m a sap, I know.
And of course “Ghost In This House”.
Everybody Hurts by REM.
The song is sad enough, but it was playing when my friends and I were all heading out to the cemetery to bury my mom. I had finally gotten control of myself but as soon as the song came on I lost it again.
I’m getting teary eyed again just thinking about it, and it’s been a good eleven years now.
Amazing Grace, especially the bagpipes version, does the same thing to me. It’s a tradition to play it at our family funerals (unfortunately I’ve heard it too many times).
The VIDEO for Tell Me I’m Not Dreaming slays me every time. The song never got to me until I saw the video. Now, one verse and I’m biting my lip.
“By My Side” from GODSPELL (Jesus’s girl-disciples asking to go wherever He’s destined for, while Judas plots the betrayal)
and heard Monday night on 7th HEAVEN when everyone was visiting Sandy (the older Duff sister) & her new baby, Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” - I was sobbing like a whiny b*tch with a skinned knee.
Yeah, I should have clarified that. I remember the first time I saw it and being absolutely gobsmacked, staring at the TV.
Bastard Travis Tritt manipulatin’ my emotions like that… 
There are two songs that always choke me up. The first is Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide”, and the second is Luther Vandross’s “Dance with my Father”.
“All Good Gifts”, also from Godspell, makes me cry. And I’m not even a Christian!
The usual Suspects get me:
Vincent
Alone Again, Naturally
Same Auld Lang Syne by Dan Fogleberg (especially when the snow turns into rain)
My Father by Judy Collins (scroll down)
and the last two verses always put a tear to my eye when I hear
Die Erlkönig
The first one that came to mind is Ashokan Farewell from the PBS Civil War series.
How true. There’s one that I’ve heard Garrison Keillor do and I’m not sure of the real title, but it’s something like The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.
And I’d say that two out of three times I’ll tear up with Lightfoot’s Edmund Fitzgerald ballad.
Whoever pointed to Over the Rainbow reminded me of an event (wedding reception) where I heard that done with just a guitar and a sax. I cried like a child it was so haunting. No words, but the way they played made me think of every word in my own mind. That’s some heavy shit!
I Hope You Dance always makes my throat close up a little.
so many great songs already mentioned (“The Dutchman”, “And the Band played Waltzing Matilda”). so many reasons songs can make you cry - topic, personal associations, power of the music and/or words themselves, pathos or corniness…
These will make my eyes well up -
“Hey That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” - by Leonard Cohen
3 from Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” - “You’re gonna make me lonesome when you go”, “You’re a Big Girl Now” and “If You see Her Say Hello”
and “In Dreams” , from the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack.
Not really teary, but choked up. No really, just something in my eye, that’s all…
Written by Michael Smith. His Sister Clarissa always gets me, and I’m not Catholic.
You may want to listen to Mindy Smith’s version (I think it may be a hidden song). Also, One Moment More (also by Mindy Smith), about losing her mother.
Yep. With you on these. Townes is terrific.
Actually, I was surprised that stpauler hadn’t mentioned Patty first 
. I vote for Rain as the one that always gets me, with My Dear Old Friend and Top of the World tied for second.
Additional votes for Fire and Rain, and for Don’t Give Up.
Emmy Lou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
James Kealaghan - Cold Missouri Waters
Pete Morton/Sally Barker/The Poozies - Another Train
Victoria Williams/Pearl Jam - Crazy Mary
Dougie MacLean - Feel So Near (and a whole bunch more)
John Prine - Hello in There
Beth Nielsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Sandy Denny - Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
and Stardust by just about anyone
I liked that one so much I got the sheet music for the violin. I’ve memorized it now, at least the violin part, and I can still play it pretty well. Makes me want to pull it out from under my bed when I get home…
Yeah, I know what you mean. I just hated to see Annie die like that, after the way she and Travis were reconciled in the first half of the story (the video to Anymore)–now the song itself is enough to make me melancholy!
Any version of “I’ll Take You Home Again. Kathleen.” Especially when you think about the context: an Irish immigrant to America speaking to his dying wife 40 or 50 years after they fled as newly-weds the potato famine to settle in the New World, never again to see the Emerald Isle.
Fields of Gold by Sting. It’s a wistful, haunting song in itself, but the fact that someone I was with for a long time liked it so much doesn’t help me much when it plays. I suppose you could call it “our song.”
Steve Wariner’s Two Tears made my throat close up the first time I heard it at work when I was 17, but I haven’t thought of it much until more recently. The parallel stories of the blue-eyed bride and her brown-eyed ex who she left with “questions but not any answers” really strikes close to home. And even though I don’t particularly like country music, the girl who it reminds me of really did.
Dream on by Aerosmith. I watched our dog die in my mom’s arms in January of 2000. He had been sick and wasn’t very interested in his normal dry food, so my mom sent me to the grocery store to get him something from a can. The song was on the radio as I drove home, and it ended just as I pulled up to our house.
More generally, though, Bridge over Troubled Waters and The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkle tend to get me a little misty. I do have memories that go with these songs, but they’re both very moving to begin with. The Beatles’ Let it Be provides a quick emotional release too.
Lastly, Way to Fall by Starsailor. It’s great to listen to while depressed.
There it is. I don’t listen to that style of music generally, but that song chokes me up. Perhaps because I have daughters of my own, and I suppose that’s why Paul Simon’s *Father and Daughter * gets to me a bit as well.
Also,
The Waterboys - Spirit and Fisherman’s Blues
Rush - The Pass
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now