# Songs That Made / Make You Cry (audio) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490 "2009-03-31T20:25:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/1 "2009-03-31T20:25:09Z")
[**At Seventeen ~ Janis Ian**](http://homepage.mac.com/gaycouple/seventeen.html) Yeah . . . I’m a woose. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/2 "2009-03-31T20:32:28Z")
My all time winner is “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Poor Hank. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/3 "2009-03-31T20:38:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/4 "2009-03-31T20:42:57Z")
The Johnny Cash/June Carter duet of “On the Far Side Banks of Jordan”. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5BdIjeRcqxE/hqdefault.jpg "Johnny Cash Sings Far Side Banks Of Jordan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BdIjeRcqxE) Cheesy? Unbearably. But when June sings about going first but waiting for him on the bank, it gets me every dang time. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/5 "2009-03-31T21:00:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/6 "2009-03-31T21:08:17Z")
“[Rebecca Go Home](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN9osnrr_Io)” ([lyrics](http://www.thelostdogs.com/lyrics/gifthorse/rebeccagohome.html)): 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. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/7 "2009-03-31T21:33:36Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I can’t listen to all of “Kilkelly, Ireland” sometimes, or “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”. Add The Green Fields Of France and you’ve got yourself a Crio! ---
**Author:** ![ChadVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@ChadVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChadVader)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/8 "2009-03-31T21:40:47Z")
Sufjan Stevens – [Casimir Pulaski Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxMYqsvgX8c). A very beautiful song about a teenage boy who loses his friend to cancer. [Lyrics](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858541824/). ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/9 "2009-03-31T21:56:58Z")
“Teen For God” by Dar Williams always gets me. Also, “Special” by Garbage, but that’s at least partially due to the video. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/10 "2009-03-31T22:29:12Z")
“Barbara Allen” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adxXdhKYob4) ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/11 "2009-03-31T22:37:36Z")
There’s a country song, “Baby”. I think it’s by Blake Shelton. I cant hear it without bawling. Also, Verv Pipe’s “Freshman”. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/12 "2009-03-31T22:42:50Z")
\*Wish you were here \*- Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/13 "2009-03-31T22:48:39Z")
_“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. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/14 "2009-04-01T05:18:47Z")
> [@Pammipoo](#): > > There’s a country song, “Baby”. I think it’s by Blake Shelton. I cant hear it without bawling. 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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/15 "2009-04-01T05:50:12Z")
[“Never Without You,”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz6Y_cO3yBg) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/16 "2009-04-01T06:00:20Z")
> [@Jettboy](#): > > _“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. [This?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuaR03lgOQI) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/17 "2009-04-01T06:01:34Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > I can’t listen to all of “Kilkelly, Ireland” sometimes, … Dammit. [This song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsOA-5H_L2g) still gets me, some 20+ years after I first heard it. I firmly believe that this is the saddest song ever written. > [@](#): > > 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. [Number Two](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdYMuo3_B4&feature=related) on the Mist-O-Meter. > [@](#): > > Waltzing Matilda. Got a particular version in mind? ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/18 "2009-04-01T06:26:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/19 "2009-04-01T06:35:31Z")
I don’t even like country but that Randy Travis song where he’s talking about his grandpa . . . ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/20 "2009-04-01T07:27:11Z")
Traces… Dennis Yost and The Classics IV. I can’t do a link here, sorry! Just don’t remember all the steps sometimes.☹ Q [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490.md?page=2)