# 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:** 2
**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, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/21 "2009-04-01T07:29:01Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > [**At Seventeen ~ Janis Ian**](http://homepage.mac.com/gaycouple/seventeen.html) > > Yeah . . . I’m a woose. > 😛 Are ya now? Well that may be, but you’re **our** woose!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/22 "2009-04-01T07:37:51Z")
[Nur zu besuch - Die Toten Hosen](http://artrock2006.blogspot.com/2008/11/nur-zu-besuch.html). ---
**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, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/23 "2009-04-01T07:41:33Z")
Es spielt nicht? Noch mal versuchen, bitte? Quasi ---
**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, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/24 "2009-04-01T07:50:27Z")
Ich habe es endlich empfangen! Danke Dir! Wundershönes Lied! Der Bill ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/25 "2009-04-01T08:08:48Z")
There are far too many songs for me to list, for I am very emotional. I have been known to tear up during certain commercials. However the one that gets me every time is Randy Travis’ _Three Wooden Crosses_. Heathen that I am, I cannot listen to it without blubbering like a baby. ---
**Author:** ![Bi-Polar\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c4cdca/32.png) [@Bi-Polar\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bi-Polar_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/26 "2009-04-01T08:49:57Z")
" What I did for love" from Chorus Line and “Explain it to my heart” from Chicago. Both reminders of an extremely painful and completely incomprehensible breakup (dropped at about the average speed of an F-14). Been years, but hearing either one makes me want to go into a dark room, assume the fetal position and cry until I’m officially diagnosed as medically dehydrated. ---
**Author:** ![longPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bb73d2/32.png) [@longPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longPath)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/27 "2009-04-01T09:41:55Z")
A little known song bt Stan Rogers. “The Last Watch”. [Lyrics](http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/r/rogersstan15735/thewatch424994.html) ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/28 "2009-04-01T10:16:42Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Got a particular version in mind? The song in question is “[And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda](http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RumSodomy/Waltzing.html)”. Not “Waltzing Matilda”. Another Australian contribution [“Wrinkles”](http://www.malleeboy.com/music/wrinkles.html). Sentimental mush, but a fair tearjerker. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/29 "2009-04-01T11:43:34Z")
Danny Boy Alone Again, Naturally Amazing Grace (on the pipes) several of those already mentioned Over the Rainbow (not every version, but one I heard the Wooten Brothers do at a wedding reception) and every now and then When You Wish Upon a Star – reminds me of how hopeful I was as a child. I cry for that lost innocence. ---
**Author:** ![BigShooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f07891/32.png) [@BigShooter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigShooter)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/30 "2009-04-01T17:13:38Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Amazing Grace (on the pipes) Without a doubt. I don’t know if any of you Dopers attended the University of Arizona in the early 90’s, but there used to be this guy who would practice his bagpipes in the evening on the Mall area in the middle of campus. Something about hearing that song on the pipes, ringing throughout the Mall which was bathed in the erie yellow light of street lamps at night… really sad… Also, I teared up a little when I first heard Ray Lamontagne’s **“Burn”** : [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaeatKAPpU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsaeatKAPpU) ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/31 "2009-04-01T17:18:17Z")
I’ll Think Of Something - Mark Chesnutt ---
**Author:** ![apollonia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2bfe46/32.png) [@apollonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apollonia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/32 "2009-04-01T19:20:10Z")
[Beloved Wife](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PtB5_eEpLs) as performed by Natalie Merchant is just gut-wrenchingly sad. In another vein, although I can’t find a good recording of it, (you can listen to a bit of it at [last.fm here)](http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Folds/_/Gracie), Gracie by Ben Folds. Weeping. Every single time. ---
**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:** [April 1, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/33 "2009-04-01T19:27:40Z")
> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#): > > However the one that gets me every time is Randy Travis’ _Three Wooden Crosses_. Heathen that I am, I cannot listen to it without blubbering like a baby. I’m embarrassed to admit that this song gets me too, makes me bawl like an atheist baby. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/34 "2009-04-01T23:33:40Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > 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. That wasn’t so sad. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I seem to have something in my eye ☹ ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/35 "2009-04-01T23:55:56Z")
The Fureys - The Old Man Can’t listen to it … won’t listen to it [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JCSaBYY-wQk/hqdefault.jpg "The Fureys - The Old Man (Live)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSaBYY-wQk) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/36 "2009-04-02T01:21:40Z")
Marianne Faithfull’s [The Ballad of Lucy Jordan](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KV-PTK0UZ4). ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/37 "2009-04-02T01:26:55Z")
Aria de Mezzo Carattere - Final Fantasy 3a VIj Opera Scene. I’m not going to link to the game video, because if you haven’t played the game, then the ancient sprites and music won’t make sense. But I bawl every time I get to that scene in the game. Here is an orchestra rendition of it: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NC45S948ss&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NC45S948ss&feature=related) . ---
**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:** [April 2, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/38 "2009-04-02T01:55:14Z")
This is my favorite rendition of “The Old Man.” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cw1yorwijY) Here’s another gut-wrenching song . . . “Christmas 1915” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QiULHn9tc) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/39 "2009-04-02T02:07:15Z")
> [@Cajun Man](#): > > Here’s another gut-wrenching song . . . “Christmas 1915” > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QiULHn9tc](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QiULHn9tc) Lovely song, I do believe it’s full title is A Silent Night (Christmas 1915) and I think I prefer [the original version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0ysO58KXE). My dad loved the song, but it really should have been Christmas 1914 surely? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490/40 "2009-04-02T03:27:40Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [“Never Without You,”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz6Y_cO3yBg) Ringo Starr’s tribute to the late George Harrison. For related reasons: “Photograph”, by Ringo Starr. He did it at the “Concert for George”, and the words took on a new meaning. I can’t hear it now without thinking of that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-made-make-you-cry-audio/491490.md?page=3)