Yeah . . . I’m a woose.
My all time winner is “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Poor Hank.
I can’t listen to all of “Kilkelly, Ireland” sometimes, or “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”.
I refuse to allow “Breathe Me”, which played in the last episode of Six Feet Under, to play on my iPod. I used to love that song, but it’s too sad now.
The Johnny Cash/June Carter duet of “On the Far Side Banks of Jordan”.
Cheesy? Unbearably. But when June sings about going first but waiting for him on the bank, it gets me every dang time.
Pfft, I’m a guy, I don’t cry.
But if I was to cry, Janis Joplin’s Me and Bobby McGee would probably do it.
“Rebecca Go Home” (lyrics): Man saying his last goodbye to his wife on her deathbed. Just looking at the link so I can post it has me tearing up.
Add The Green Fields Of France and you’ve got yourself a Crio!
Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day. A very beautiful song about a teenage boy who loses his friend to cancer.
Lyrics.
“Teen For God” by Dar Williams always gets me.
Also, “Special” by Garbage, but that’s at least partially due to the video.
“Barbara Allen”
There’s a country song, “Baby”. I think it’s by Blake Shelton. I cant hear it without bawling.
Also, Verv Pipe’s “Freshman”.
*Wish you were here *- Pink Floyd
“Something in the Rain” by Tish Hinojosa. If you’re not from Texas you’ve probably never heard of her, or heard this aching song about Mexican field workers and children dying from airborne pesticides. Damn, I’m getting all misty just thinking about it.
It’s called “The Baby” and it is by Blake Shelton. It makes me cry too.
Another one that I can’t listen to without at least getting misty-eyed is “Lullaby for a Stormy Night” by Vienna Teng. I wish I could do a YouTube link, but YouTube is not cooperating with me right now.
“Never Without You,” Ringo Starr’s tribute to the late George Harrison. That would make me tear up every time I would play it. The beautiful guitar work in that song is by George’s good friend, Eric Clapton.
Dammit. This song still gets me, some 20+ years after I first heard it. I firmly believe that this is the saddest song ever written.
Number Two on the Mist-O-Meter.
Got a particular version in mind?
I don’t think I’ve ever cried listening to a song. I’m not bragging, but rather now I wonder if I’m missing something.
One of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard is Clapton’s Tears in Heaven, but that’s because of the back story as much as the song itself.
I don’t even like country but that Randy Travis song where he’s talking about his grandpa . . .
Traces… Dennis Yost and The Classics IV.
I can’t do a link here, sorry! Just don’t remember all the steps sometimes.
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