# Songs that make you embarrassingly weepy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187 "2008-09-12T00:11:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/61 "2008-09-12T20:43:57Z")
Empty Garden by Elton John. It’s about the death of John Lennon but it makes me think about my brother’s death. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/62 "2008-09-13T00:26:48Z")
> [@Arglefraster](#): > > A Boy and his Frog by Tom Smith is the saddest song in the world. Ever. You can listen to it on his website here: > > [http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff.htm](http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff.htm) > > It’s the third mp3 in the list. He can’t even get all the way through singing it without choking up. At Jim Henson’s funeral, they also sang “Sing” and every time I hear that song now, I choke up a little too. ---
**Author:** ![PeacePlease](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@PeacePlease](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PeacePlease)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/63 "2008-09-13T00:49:36Z")
What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong The Show Must Go On, Queen Silent Night, sung as a group on Christmas (this says the atheist…brings back fond childhood memories) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/64 "2008-09-13T03:32:15Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > The first time I heard Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt it seemed like he was singing it from experience. It got to me for some reason. S’truth. The first time I heard it I didn’t know it _was_ a cover. It fit him so well the thought it might be never crossed my mind. I don’t know the artist or even the name of the song because I only heard it a couple times, but it was a country-western song of a father talking to his son on the phone, saying he’s sorry can’t come home because he’s got something to do. Sounds like your typical divorce song until you slowly realize he’s on United flight 93. I had to pull the car over and stop for about five minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/65 "2008-09-13T03:43:14Z")
> [@bufftabby](#): > > I’ll have to echo _Amazing Grace_, but with bagpipes. Indeed. No competition. ☹ …maybe **Taps** on trumpet though. ---
**Author:** ![sinusoidal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@sinusoidal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinusoidal)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/66 "2008-09-13T05:03:01Z")
I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie. I seriously can’t think about the lyrics too much or I will cry, no matter what the situation. ---
**Author:** ![Myglaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Myglaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myglaren)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/67 "2008-09-13T08:25:52Z")
Mylène Farmer, [_Pas Le Temps De Vivre_](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hjdl6NOnAsk&feature=related). You don’t need to speak French for it to get to you. Just watch her. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/68 "2008-09-13T10:19:18Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > “By My Side” from Godspell- the girls assure Jesus that whatever is to come, they’ll be with him, comparing it to walking with a pebble in the shoe, and having no idea what’s going to go down… and in the meantime, Judas makes his deal with the High Priest. The song’s story, and the composition, make it a diamond among other gems. That entire musical is gorgeous, but that song seems like the writer just woke up one day with unexpected inspiration and wrote that piece. The rap remix of “Every Breath You Take” ([- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QJse82M6BM&feature=related)), memorializing the Notorious B.I.G. I’ve never been one for rap, but it don’t matter. “Silence is Golden” hit me hard before it was the first song I heard after my friend Blake had died. Now it’s permanently associated with him. So much of _Evanescence_’s stuff sounds the same that pretty much any song by that group gets me because one of their songs, “My Immortal,” was the first one that played after I found out **Persephone** had died. Any music from _Schindler’s List_. _Hey Jude_, if for no other reason than “The movement you need is on your shoulder.” Real Time’s version of “Loch Lomond,” which has apparently been taken off YouTube, got me every time. I’m confident there are more, but as is always the case with these things, once you’re asked to think of them, they hide. ---
**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:** [September 13, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/69 "2008-09-13T13:46:18Z")
[Light One Cancle](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/peter,+paul+&+mary/light+one+candle_20107723.html). It makes me think of 9/11 Light one candle for the pain they endured When their right to exist was denied ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/70 "2008-09-13T14:02:35Z")
\*\*Baby Mine \*\*from \*Dumbo \*has already been mentioned. It makes me so teary that I don’t watch Dumbo if I’m feeling at all melancholy. Also a song from my childhood called **Scarlet Ribbons**. I cry every time. It’s about a parent trying to find ribbons for her child, but all the stores are closed, and then the ribbons show up by miracle. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/71 "2008-09-13T17:22:54Z")
“Hallelujah”–Jeff Buckley’s version. “Breathe Me” by Sia. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/72 "2008-09-13T18:01:43Z")
> [@sinusoidal](#): > > I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie. I seriously can’t think about the lyrics too much or I will cry, no matter what the situation. Word! Also, “Danny Boy,” sung by any pure-voiced Irish tenor. ---
**Author:** ![AT\_Love](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@AT\_Love](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AT_Love)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/73 "2008-09-13T19:24:49Z")
Baby Mine gets me too. I can’t even make it through the beginning banjo of “Rainbow Connection”. It kills me. I’m crying right now-its ridiculous but its the saddest song i’ve ever heard. Have yourself a merry little christmas done by Judy Garland gets me too because it reminds me of the first few christmases after my dad died when I was twelve and how miserable they were. ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/74 "2008-09-13T20:48:28Z")
My brother sometimes hand me a big bunch of songs I import to my iPod, but don’t tell the police. The good thing is I listen to a lot of music I wouldn’t listen to otherwise and one day on the train home there was \*Mockingbird \*by **Eminem** ---
**Author:** ![Mitijea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mitijea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mitijea)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/75 "2008-09-13T22:23:29Z")
DooWahDiddy: “I defy any grown man to listen to “Cat’s in the Cradle” without tearing up.” This song has meant so many things to me over the years, but always, always brings the tears. I love it and hate it, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. But one thing this song doesn’t make me, and that is embarrassed. I have no shame about how I react to this song. I see it as a testament to how important art can be in someones life. I’m not sure I’d be who I was today if it wasn’t for this song. Even typing about it is hard, as I try to focus through the blur of fresh tears. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/76 "2008-09-14T10:31:33Z")
“The Promise” by Tracy Chapman ---
**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:** [September 14, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/77 "2008-09-14T10:48:57Z")
We’ve done this before and people have pointed and laughed at me, but I cry whenever _Three Wooden Crosses_ plays, and I’m a heathen who’s dead inside and has no soul. Go figger. There was a song by Conway Twitty some years ago called _Don’t Cry Joni_, that made my eyes water. Creepy, since it evokes a pedophilial tendency. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Jenkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Brown\_Jenkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Jenkin)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/78 "2008-09-14T11:16:52Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Mine is “Puff the Magic Dragon”. What of it, got something to say, wanna take it outside?😃 That makes two of us in the world. I learned all the words for the first time when my little girl decided she liked a recorded version of it, and for the first few (dozen) times blubbed at the last verse. A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys… For anyone who needs a cure for Danny Boy, I give you the Leprechaun Brothers, yeeeeayyyy: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA\_D3KU](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU). ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/79 "2008-09-14T11:34:01Z")
> [@Cosmopolitan](#): > > _Hallelujah_ - the Jeff Buckley version - always gets me. I think it might have something to do with the fact that he died so young combined with the fact that the lyrics are just so beautiful and brilliant. It was also played in ‘The West Wing’ over the scene where C.J. Cregg (played by Allison Jeney) learns her Secret Service bodyguard has just been murdered. As for ‘Desperadoes waiting for a train’ by the Highwaymen, it reminds me of talking to my Dad just before he died. (But those tears doesn’t embarrass me.) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187/80 "2008-09-14T14:42:23Z")
The Star Spangled Banner. Seriously. Instantly, every frickin’ time. Seeing that I coach, and my kids are involved in all sorts of sports, it’s embarrassing to be standing there, tears starting, wiping my eyes. There are plenty of other songs that make me tear up on occasion, but the anthem is the kicker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-embarrassingly-weepy/463187.md?page=5)