# Songs that make you cry
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 31, 1999, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870 "1999-08-31T02:44:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/1 "1999-08-31T02:44:00Z")
Along a similar line of threads like “movies that make you cry” and “favorite songs”, are there any SONGS that make you cry?? I have three in particular…
Country Songs
“Don’t Take The Girl” (don’t know who sings it)
“I Think His Name Was John” Reba McIntire (this one made me about hysterical crying…very moving)
“Heaven” (about a guy dying on a trip and his wife gets a postcard that just says “Heaven” and wish you were here, etc…)
Anyone else?? You must have at least one…
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/2 "1999-08-31T03:12:00Z")
Old Testament Seminary class in high school had an album of songs, and one of them never fails to move me. It’s called “Zion Theme.”
Collin Rey’s recent hit (is it “Love, Me”?) is a tearjerker, as long as I don’t hear it twice or more in one day. Anne Murray’s “You Needed Me” used to get me teary, but for some reason (overplay?) it doesn’t any more.
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### Author:  [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/3 "1999-08-31T03:17:00Z")
I have a few, most because they’re associated with something…
“Tears In Heaven” - Eric Clapton
“So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” - Boys II Men (Both were played at a teacher’s funeral. A teacher that I adored. Can’t listen to either one anymore without sobbing)
And the religious one… “Be Not Afraid.” Had to sing this one (solo) at the memorial service for a freshman hallmate. God only knows how I finished it without crying.
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### Author:  [@Wicked\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wicked_Blue)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/4 "1999-08-31T03:33:00Z")
As much as I hate to admit it, Last Kiss by Pearl Jam gets to me. I don’t cry every time I hear it now, but I did when it first came out. Foolish Games by Jewel breaks my heart as well. One Headlight by the Wallflowers makes me cry too, although I haven’t heard it for a while
Blue.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/5 "1999-08-31T03:54:00Z")
Daddy’s Hands by Holly Dunn and The Greatest Man I Never Knew by Reba McIntyre. Also Wish You Were Here (Zette’s Heaven song) by Mark Wills. And, of course, He Stopped Loving Her Today, George Jones.
Don’t Take the Girl is Tim McGraw.
Snark: Love, Me is Collin Raye. Are you thinking of the song with the letter from the grandmother to the grandfather?
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/6 "1999-08-31T04:10:00Z")
This one just came on the radio:
_That’s My Job_.
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### Author:  [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/7 "1999-08-31T04:50:00Z")
John Michael Montgomery’s “Holes in the Floor of Heaven” – though it is a bit theologically peculiar. Chad Brock’s “Ordinary Life,” for some reason. Tim McGraw’s “Remember Me,” and the Hank Williams heart-ripper classic, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”
Outside country – the Beatles’ “For No One” (“you think she needs you …”)
Catrandom
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### Author:  [@EnigmaOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnigmaOne)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/8 "1999-08-31T05:00:00Z")
Mike and The Mechanics
In The Living Years
“I wasn’t there that morning, when my father passed away…”
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– **Kalél**
_Common ¢ for all ages…_
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/9 "1999-08-31T05:41:00Z")
**He Stopped Loving Her Today**
George Jones
**Happy Christmas(War is Over)**
John Lennon
**Tears of a Clown**
Smokey Robinson
**You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling**
The Righteous Brothers
**Crazy**
Patsy Cline
**Neither One of Us Wants To Be The First to Say Goodbye**
Gladys Knight
**Cry Baby**
Janis Joplin
**Mr. Bojangles**
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
**Long Gone Lonesome Blues**
Hank Williams
**Bridge Over Troubled Water**
Simon & Garfunkle
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### Author:  [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/10 "1999-08-31T05:45:00Z")
The Pianosaurus rendition of Chuck Berry’s Memphis always makes me emotional, when they say “Marie is only six years old.”
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### Author:  [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/11 "1999-08-31T07:16:00Z")
Several by John Prine:
“Hello in There”
“Angel From Montgomery”
“Sam Stone”
“The Great Compromise”
“Souvenirs”
“Mexican Home”
“Six O’clock News”
If some of you Cecil Fans have not listened to John Prine, I suggest you run out and buy “John Prine” or “John Prine Live” - he’s your kinda guy.
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### Author:  [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/12 "1999-08-31T14:50:00Z")
Milles Regrets by Josquin Deprez, Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, If My Complaints Could Passions Move by John Dowland all make me cry. Pop songs are too superficial to illicit any real emotions.
SC
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### Author:  [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/13 "1999-08-31T14:59:00Z")
Yesterday I was driving to work and “Mother” by Pink Floyd came on. My mom died when I was 10 (I’m 23 now). When the following part came on, I started bawling
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Mother do you think she’s good enough
Mother do you think she’s dangerous
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Mother will she break my heart?
Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.
Mama’s gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.
Mama’s gonna wait up until you get in.
Mama will always find out where you’ve been.
Mama’s gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,
You’ll always be baby to me.\*\*
My sister is getting married soon, and I guess I just realised that my mom never met any of my girlfriends, and that I have never been able to look for her advice on the women in my life, and that I never will be able to in the future.
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### Author:  [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/14 "1999-08-31T15:03:00Z")
this whole thread is making me want to cry…
ps
tears in heaven is so sad- didnt he write it when his son died?
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### Author:  [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/15 "1999-08-31T15:10:00Z")
kelli -
Yep, he did. Which is why it’s a very sad song to begin with, and then (for me), I had it also associated with another death. ☹ Which is sort of a shame, because I really love the song.
dhanson -
John Prine is awesome! Got into him after hearing Dave Matthews redo “Angel From Montgomery.”
And I thought of one more - “Kid Fears,” by the Indigo Girls. Reminds me of a good friend who I don’t see anymore - we used to sing it together all the time. _sigh_
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/16 "1999-08-31T15:22:00Z")
**dhanson** is right: **John Prine** is a superb poet. I guess I didn’t mention his songs because he is quick to make you laugh right after he makes you cry. The fellow is a genius.
I gotta shake myself and wonder
Why she even bothers me
For if heartaches were commercials
We’d all be on T.V.
from **Come Back To Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard** by John Prine
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/17 "1999-08-31T15:34:00Z")
Father of Mine - Everclear
The Last Time - Danny Elfman
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### Author:  [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/18 "1999-08-31T15:43:00Z")
“Winter” by Tori Amos. About a girl and her father.
“You say, 'when you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as much as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
‘Cause things are gonna change, so fast…’”
“You say you wanted me to be proud of you;
I always wanted that myself…”
My da died 5 years back. That song can really make me bawl.
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“Eppur, si muove!” - Galileo Galilei
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### Author:  [@corvidae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corvidae)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/19 "1999-08-31T20:36:00Z")
“I will remember you” by Sarah McLachlan.
This sone usually doesn’t do a thing for me, but I was just listening to the radio when this little girl requested the song in memory of her hamster that had just died. I know, I’m a total sap!
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### Author:  [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)
#### Post date: [August 31, 1999, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-cry/7870/20 "1999-08-31T22:27:00Z")
“Never The Same” by echolyn.
Rips me to shreds every time I hear it…
“after the song is over, the dance goes on, so dance away. remember what’s been given, not taken away. remember every night that we shared every day, there’s never endings, and I’ll never be the same…”
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