# What Songs Make You Cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889 "2003-07-12T03:00:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/21 "2003-07-12T22:57:02Z")
**Moonlapse Vertigo** and **Face of Melinda** by Opeth (played in that order) can bring a tear to my eye. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/22 "2003-07-13T00:07:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by finette6 \* > > **Love is Blue** - I’m not sure about the artist, but it is an instrumental and French > **The Night Chicago Died** - Again, I don’t know the artist, and maybe that’s not even the title [Paul Mauriat](http://www.buy.com/retail/music/product.asp?sku=60211115) performed the former tune; [Paper Lace](http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1974/461974.html), the latter. ---
**Author:** ![penny\_dreadful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@penny\_dreadful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penny_dreadful)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/23 "2003-07-13T00:15:56Z")
Another vote for “And the Band Played Waltzing Mathilda”, Pogues version. “The Painters” from Jewel’s first album used to make me tear up too. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/24 "2003-07-13T00:28:37Z")
“You Gotta Be” by Des’ree and “Prayer for the Dying” by Seal – but only when I’m in a maudlin mood, remembering an evening when both songs were played in the company of several people who are no longer here. “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” and “Hallelujah” by Jeff Buckley. Why he’s dead when so many people are alive boggles my mind. “Sentimental Journey” by Rosemary Clooney, but only live versions recorded later in her life. Clair de Lune, played by anyone ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/25 "2003-07-13T02:36:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hebesphenomegacorona \* > \*\*I’m not sure if I’m supposed to snicker at that… \*\* You may snicker to your hearts content. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/26 "2003-07-13T02:50:56Z")
In no particular order: Vincent – Don McClean Auld Lang Sine - Dan Fogleberg For No One - The Beatles Another vote for Gilbert O’Sullivan, Alone Again (Naturally) America - Paul Simon Another Vote for “Try to Remember” Blue and Gray – Folksong ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/27 "2003-07-13T02:57:42Z")
In no particular order: Vincent – Don McClean Auld Lang Sine - Dan Fogleberg For No One - The Beatles Another vote for Gilbert O’Sullivan, Alone Again (Naturally) America - Paul Simon Another Vote for “Try to Remember” Blue and Gray – Folksong ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/28 "2003-07-13T03:07:08Z")
Stella Blue, When I Paint My Masterpiece, Brokedown Palace, We Bid You Goodnight, Morning Dew, and Peggy-O. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/29 "2003-07-13T03:35:55Z")
I have no idea why that double-posted, I only sent it once. ---
**Author:** ![Kobaltblu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@Kobaltblu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobaltblu)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/30 "2003-07-13T03:42:13Z")
Vincent–Don McLean Twinkle–Tori Amos Nessun Dorma–Andrea Bocelli Angel–Sarah MacLachlan Gymnopedies–Erik Satie This Woman’s Work–Kate Bush Lose Again–Karla Bonoff Sand and Water–Beth Nielsen Chapman La Wally–Wilma Fernandez Hand over Head–Heidi Berry Calling all Angels–Jane Siberry Lover Man–Billie Holliday My Funny Valentine–Chet Baker Ne Me Quitte Pas–Nina Simone ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/31 "2003-07-13T03:46:58Z")
**Waiting for a Girl Like You** by Foreigner. That’s the absolute only one and I guess I should be grateful for an 80s revival, huh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/32 "2003-07-13T03:53:43Z")
I don’t know how I forgot this: Winter - Tori Amos La Columbe: The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love/We are not here to sing/We’re here to kill the dove. The song is by Jaques Brel and the recording I have is by Judy Collins and while I’m at it: My Father – Judy Collins ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/33 "2003-07-13T04:03:08Z")
“Teddy Bear” by Red Sovine. It’s a cheap tearjerker that just works for me somehow. “Cat Carol” by Merin Caddel. It’s a cheap tearjerker by somebody who knew they were doing one and did it well. Cats and mice making friends, Santa Claus, death, and a bunch of other stuff that should make me punch the radio because it’s so stupid. Instead, it makes me pull over to the side of the road because I can’t see through the tears. I’m not happy about it, but it happens. “The Mary Ellen Carter” by Stan Rogers. Just listen to it, and you won’t need any explanation. Between that, “Field Behind the Plow”, “Northwest Passage”, and “Barrett’s Privateers” the man described my country perfectly. “The Green Fields of France”, as performed by The Men They Couldn’t Hang. I think that one was written by an Aussie or a Kiwi, and it has resonance across a greater part of the world than “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda” does. I get that one, but it doesn’t make me cry. I once heard “In Flanders Fields” sung by a children’s chorus. That one would be the only answer if I had heard it first. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/34 "2003-07-13T04:27:43Z")
Sorry, I feel so strongly about this song I had to post the lyrics: La Colombe Why all these bugles crying for squads of young men drilled To kill and to be killed and waiting by this train Why the orders loud and hoarse, why the engine’s groaning cough As it strains to drag us off into the holocaust Why crowds who sing and cry and shout and fling us flowers And trade their right for ours to murder and to die The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love We are not here to sing, we’re here to kill the dove Why has this moment come when childhood has to die When hope shrinks to a sigh and speech into a drum Why are they pale and still, young boys trained overnight Conscripts forced to fight and dressed in grey to kill These rain clouds massing tight, this trainload battle bound This moving burial ground sent thundering toward the night The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love We are not here to sing, we’re here to kill the dove Why statues towering brave above the last defeat Old word and lies repeat across the new made grave Why the same still birth that victory always brought These hoards of glory bought by men with mouths of earth Dead ash without a spark where cities glittered bright For guns probe every light and crush it in the dark The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love We are not here to sing, we’re here to kill the dove And why your face undone with jagged lines of tears That gave in those first years all peace I ever won Your body in the gloom, the platform fading back Your shadow on the track, a flower on a tomb And why these days ahead when I must let you cry And live prepared to die as if our love were dead The dove has torn her wings so no more songs of love We are not here to sing, we’re here to kill the dove by Alasdair Clayre recorded by Judy Collins ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/35 "2003-07-13T04:49:27Z")
Sting: **Why Should I Cry for You** **Russians** – brings back an era…_how can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?_ but most of all: **They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)** – reminds me of getting a tour of Buenos Aires from Universidad de Buenos Aires students including Plaza de Mayo when I spent some time in Argentina Also, Peter Gabriel: **Mercy Street Don’t Give Up** (with Kate Bush) **Gollum’s Song** - Emiliana Torrini (_Where once was light, now darkness falls. Where once was love, love is no more. Don’t say goodbye. Don’t say I didn’t try._) **Arrival** - ABBA (I know, you’re thinking: ABBA? But if anyone else knows this song, does it make you sad? Or is it just my personal associations?) ---
**Author:** ![Kobaltblu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/77aa72/32.png) [@Kobaltblu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobaltblu)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/36 "2003-07-13T06:55:58Z")
Sorry. Thought of more… Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World–Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole This Street, That Man, This Life–Cowboy Junkies The Man that Got Away–Audra MacDonald Skeletons–Rickie Lee Jones ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/37 "2003-07-13T07:30:16Z")
Tom Waits: Train Song Lyle Lovett: She’s Already Made Up Her Mind This Mortal Coil: Song To The Siren Crosby Stills Nash and Young: Suite Judy Blue Eyes ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/38 "2003-07-13T07:42:11Z")
_I’m So Lonesom I Could Cry_. The whole song is said but this line _Like me he’s lost the will to live, I’m so lonesome I could cry_ gets me everytime. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/39 "2003-07-13T07:45:44Z")
[**Don’t Take the Girl** by Tim McGraw](http://www.lyricstime.com/lyrics/13436.html) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889/40 "2003-07-13T09:38:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kobaltblu \* > \*\*Sorry. Thought of more… > > Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World–Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole > \*\* That medley just makes ME want to grin like a loon. I LOVE it…but not for wristslashing reasons. (Ey-yuh-uh ah, ooh Oooh, ooh, ooh etc) 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/187889.md?page=3)