# Songs that make you cry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208 "2005-09-05T15:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/21 "2005-09-05T20:13:00Z")
“Keep Me In Your Heat For A While”, Warren Zevon. Also his cover of “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door”. ``` Cassandra Wilson's cover of "Shelter From the Storm". I just bought "The Essential Yo Yo Ma", and it brings me to tears because it's just so beautiful, and because my dad, who died last year, loved Yo Yo Ma. ``` ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/22 "2005-09-05T20:14:18Z")
:smack: Keep Me In Your HEART For A While. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/23 "2005-09-05T20:26:40Z")
Ian Tyson (of “Ian and Sylvia”) wrote a song called “Barney,” about a man’s grief after he euthanizes an old farm horse. I am not particularly fond of horses, but I can’t hear this song without bursting into tears. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/24 "2005-09-05T20:29:47Z")
> [@robardin](#): > > "“Star Wars Cantina” by **Weird Al Yankovic** (tears of laughter for this sendup of Barry Manilow’s _Copacabana_) Not a Weird Al song, though. (BTW, Weird Al gets pretty frustrated at how people seem to think he’s the only parody songwriter out there.) ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/25 "2005-09-05T20:34:41Z")
“Love is Stronger Than Death” - The The “Dance With My Father” - Luther Vandross ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/26 "2005-09-05T20:39:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I don’t remember the name of the singer, but it’s a country song titled > > _If You Get There Before I Do_ The title is “Love, Me” and it’s sung by Collin Raye. That one does me in, as well. Also: “Shannon” by Henry Gross (about a runaway dog) “Me and Little Andy” by Dolly Parton “Luckenbach, Texas” by Waylon and Willie I’m sure there are others. But I have something in my eye just now. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/27 "2005-09-05T20:43:06Z")
Oh, and: “Independence Day” by Martina McBride “Arlington” by Trace Adkins “Run, Joey, Run” by David Geddes (apologies for the double post) ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/28 "2005-09-05T20:51:21Z")
_Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning_ by **Alan Jackson**. Usually, after that, I have to pop in _Brought to You Courtesy of the Red White and Blue_ by **Toby Keith** to get me out of my funk. Oh, and even though it might make some of you gag, _Butterfly Kisses_ by **Bob Carlisle**. My father is not very demonstrative, and I know he gave me that song to tell me what he couldn’t tell me himself. ---
**Author:** ![MizGrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cdc98d/32.png) [@MizGrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MizGrand)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/29 "2005-09-05T21:02:08Z")
I second the Mike & the Mechnics song. Esp part about father dying and baby’s newborn cry. _sniffle_. How about “100 years” Five for Fighting ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/30 "2005-09-05T21:16:55Z")
**Kiss From a Rose Don’t Cry** both by Seal **Don’t Give Up In Your Eyes** Peter Gabriel **King Cotton Chirstmas 1914** Mike Harding ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/31 "2005-09-05T21:17:38Z")
“Let it Be” - the Beatles “Un bel di” - _Madama Butterfly_, Puccini “Somewhere over the Rainbow” - when sung by Israel Kamakawiwo’ole ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/32 "2005-09-05T21:21:15Z")
An old country song - I don’t know who sang it - **Country Bumpkin** **Amazing Grace** ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/33 "2005-09-05T21:25:02Z")
> [@Snakescatlady](#): > > An old country song - I don’t know who sang it - **Country Bumpkin** > > **Amazing Grace** Cal Smith sang “Country Bumpkin.” ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/34 "2005-09-05T21:31:49Z")
Ever since the first time I heard “Travelin’ Soldier,” I cannot get past the first verse without dissolving into a big puddle of tears. I also cry over “Independence Day.” > [@ivylass](#): > > Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning by Alan Jackson. > > Usually, after that, I have to pop in Brought to You Courtesy of the Red White and Blue by Toby Keith to get me out of my funk. Exactly. Country music has that effect on me, I guess. I also cry over “Please Remember Me” by Tim McGraw, “There Will Come a Day” by Faith Hill (I’ve soured on her recently, but this is one of the few songs of hers I still love), and “Wish You Were Here” by Mark Wills. In non-country, “The Lover After Me” by Savage Garden really does me in. I’ve been on a Savage Garden kick the past few days, and this song brings back a feeling I don’t want to revisit. I still love the song though. ---
**Author:** ![gfloyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d2c977/32.png) [@gfloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gfloyd)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/35 "2005-09-05T21:38:07Z")
I’m listening to “100 Years” right now. It definately can make me tear up. “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day makes me want to cry always. I listened to it on repeat for a long while when I first started dating my boyfriend, which wasn’t supposed to last. Yeah, life is something unpredictable. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/36 "2005-09-05T21:48:00Z")
“You Don’t Even Know Who I Am” by Patty Loveless- a beautiful song, but once while singing it out at karaoke, I choked right up on the words and by the time it was finished, there was nary a dry eye in the place. I don’t know what hit me so hard that time, but now I can’t hear it without wanting to cry. "She left the car in the driveway She left the key in the door She left the kids at her mama’s And the laundry piled up on the floor She left her ring on the pillow Right where it wouldn’t be missed She left a note in the kitchen Next to the grocery list It said, you don’t even know who I am You left me a long time ago You don’t even know who I am So what do you care if I go" ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/37 "2005-09-05T21:58:23Z")
Woopsie, I forgot about the Cafe Society…yes, _forgot_. “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley makes me cry. Also a lot of other things, but since I have a mind like a sieve nothing’s exactly bringing itself up at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/38 "2005-09-05T22:08:48Z")
“Feed Jake”, Pirates of the Mississippi [“Annachie Gordon”](http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/lm/lorecd34.html), Loreena McKennitt. Sung so beautifully, so sadly, and when the father says “Jeannie, you are trying the tricks of a whore…” I well up. Country music has few others that do it for me, and the part in Madame Butterfly… heck, most of Madame Butterfly. It’s so _sad._ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/39 "2005-09-05T22:14:39Z")
> [@Feydeau](#): > > The title is “Love, Me” and it’s sung by Collin Raye. > That one does me in, as well. Thanks for the info! I used to hear the song on a country station at the place I was working, and guess I never knew its real name. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208/40 "2005-09-05T22:41:34Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > “Feed Jake”, Pirates of the Mississippi Savannah , I thought I was the only one that remembered the Pirates !!! And yes , “Feed Jake” makes me cry . So does “Streetman Named Desire” “Shannon” by Henry Gross “Run For The Roses” by Dan Fogleburg - right after the great race horse Secretariat died , one of the sports shows used that song to make a video of his life , and I see it in my mind everytime I hear it now . And yes , I cry. “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay” by Otis Redding (Michael Bolton will do , too), I think it is the lonliest sounding song I have ever heard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/320208.md?page=3)