That is, because they’re sentimental or sad, and you break down trying.
“In the Garden”
He walks with me and he talks with me
…or any other line.
“I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now”
I barely got to the second verse.
“El Paso”
(The last line)
Other examples please? (with lyrics)
Da Do Ron Ron. Specifically:
Yes, she looked so fine
Yes, I’ll make her mine
And when I walked her home
da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron
Yeah, yeah, yeah
da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron ron… (repeat & fade)
::sobs::
Mariah Carey, Whenever You Call. Chokes me up everytime.
Well, I can’t sing much of anything so you’d recognize it, but when it comes to listening, many tracks on the Dixie Chicks’ Home album choke me up. Lots of regret buttons. Top of the World seems to be a fair portrait of clinical depression (as I understand it). Lyrics like:
One night they called me for supper
But I didn’t get up
I stayed right there, in my chair
Not much when you read it, but maybe you get it if you’ve been there. And that’s just a lyric I feel OK about typing. There’s a lot to the way they sing it, too.
WPA, For a short time
Country music is chock full of highly emotional (ok, sometimes a taaaad bit overly dramatic) lyrics. Two that come right to mind are “Skin” by Rascal Flatts, which I cannot sing all the way through; and “Allysa Lied” I think is what it is called.
I still love my country music. 
“In My Life” by Lennon/McCartney
and many on Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” album.
I try to sing em and then it’s crying time again.
“Ama” is the farthest I’ve ever gotten when trying to sing Amazing Grace, even though I’m a irritable atheist. It was at the funeral of a person I disliked intensely.
At funerals for decent human beings, I can’t make it to the organs second note, or even halfway through the first note when played on bagpipes. 
I’ve never heard it on bagpipes–well, I did on radio station KMPC in the early 1970s.
In 1986 and 1997 I attended the funerals for the father and the mother of a girl from high school (graduated in 1967) I have had a crush on since the first time I saw her. Never mind that she has never been my girlfriend–I’ve been close to the family, driving the mother around in the early 1990s as her health faded. And the services were in a small community Episcopalian church and I am most certainly not Episcopalian. I picked up a hymnal too–I felt I owed this much to the family. And I cried hard afterward.
Obviously some things transcend religious denomination, or even the absence thereof.
On the other hand, my brother’s wife startled me once by singing “Rock of Ages” to their baby, when I assumed it was a “funeral song”; I’d never heard of it in any other setting.
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” I was going to have it played at my father’s funeral, but I knew I couldn’t handle it.
“How Can I Help You To Say Goodbye” will get me every time. I can make it all the way to the line:
“She said, ‘I have to go now, my time here is over,’
And with her final words she tried to help me understand.”
Then it’s all over but the cryin’!
Try to sing that song without thinking of 9/11
I get choked up listening to the song “You Must Love Me” on the Evita soundtrack. It’s my favorite song in the musical, and I get teary every time I hear it. If I try to sing along, I’ll have tears streaming down my face within minutes.
I want it played at my wedding.
Rock of Ages is a good lullabye. The meaning of the words don’t matter to a baby, it’s all about rhythm and continuity, and the singer staying calm because he/she knows all the words to at least one verse. Although, the little ones I’ve sang to sleep didn’t mind “something soooomethingsomething” in the middle of Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth, probably because I didn’t. Rock of Ages wouldn’t have worked for me, because it is a funeral song to me, too. Or, for that matter, Freebird, since that’s an annoying funeral song in my world. 
Amazing Grace on bagpipes is especially moving. Something about the haunting, intensely mournful sound of the pipes works well for funerals and wars.
Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”
sniff
I’m sentimental, so it’s a long list
Tom Jones - Green Green Grass of Home
“cause there’s a guard and theres a sad old padre, arm in arm we’ll walk at daybreak
and again I’ll touch the green, green grass of home”
Rolf Harris - Two Little Boys
“Do ya think I would leave you dying…”
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler
“and somewhere in the darkness, the gambler he broke even…”
Si
Yep. Also, “How Great Thou Art”. Apparently these were my grandfather’s favorite hymns. Although I don’t remember the guy being much of a churchgoer, whenever somebody sings one of these songs, my mom and grandma slowly well up and then lose it, so naturally that causes me to bawl along.
For me it’s Coven’s One Tin Soldier. If I sing it straight, I sometimes can’t get out, “Peace on Earth/is all it said”. So I have to make some word changes to make it more comical. These are usually spur of the moment, along the lines of “Came an answer from the kingdom/ with our brothers we will share/ all the secrets of our mountain/ all the garbage buried there” or “Fooled you guys/ is all it said”.
I do the same with Wildfire, during that beautiful piano at the end, “Dead horse, dead horse, dead horse…” Of course, by then the song was already sad, but singing “dead horse” cheers the kids right up.
I’m ok with that in english. Try it in maori, and I’m gone
Whakaaria mai
Tōu rīpeka ki au
Tiaho mai
Ra roto i te pō
Hei kona au
Titiro atu ai.
Ora, mate,
Hei au koe noho ai
I guess I always hear Sir Howard Morrison (one of NZs great entertainers) singing these words.
Si
Danny Boy
“We’ll Meet Again”
“We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again, some sunny day”
Yeah. Right. Sniff.