In order for a Many of the songs already listed can bring a tear to my eye - What A Wonderful World, Amazing Grace, Crazy…
Here are some songs that haven’t been listed yet:
Wonderful - Everclear
Break Your Heart - Barenaked Ladies
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
You Are My Sunshine - as sung by my Mom
Stereophonics, a Welsh group, has a cover version of a song called ‘first time ever I saw your face’ and ‘How’ which is by John Lennon, I think. The two of those get me, not really because of lyrics, but because someone I know died the weekend I got it and had been listening to it.
Another one is Superman by Five for Fighting
Dont Dream its Over by Sixpence none the Richer (another cover)
& Two Bed and a Coffee Machine by Savage Garden
None of them make me cry, exactly, but there are a handful just on my current playlist that choke me up a little.
X-Japan’s Crucify My Love
Melodies of Life from FF IX
Tori Amos’s Crucify
A handful of the music from the Planescape: Torment soundtrack makes me choke up, but that may just be because the end of the game made me cry. Yeah, I’m a dork.
My vote would be for 10,000 miles by Mary Chapin Carpenter (the song that plays in Fly Away Home as the little girl’s mother dies - that should tell you something)
Plus just about anything by Sarah McLachlan.
The Rainbow Connection utterly kills me whenever I hear it. They played the song at my fourth grade teacher’s funeral, and she was one of the most utterly amazing people I’ve ever met.
Let Joy and Innocence Prevail is so uselessly hopeful it makes me cry.
Tomorrow Wendy
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda – I was utterly unprepared for this when I first heard it, and I started to bawl. Unusual for me…
Amazing Grace and O Holy Night can do it for me too, depending on the singer.
Bright Eyes- Padriac My Prince
Very sad song, although it never made me cry per se.
Lots of interesting choices here. My additions -
Streets of London by Ralph McTell
In My LIfe - the Beatles. esp as sung by Judy Collins
From films:
In Chariots of Fire at the end there are snatches of a hymn generally known as “Jerusalem”. Played with a big organ, it sure can make me cry. Some of the lyrics go “and we will build Jerusalem in England’s green and pleasant land”… anyway, with music it’s moving.
Also, “In Dreams” from Fellowship of the Ring can get me teary if I’m in the right mood.
Hymns: a modern hymn called - I think - “I am the Bread of Life”
and don’t forget the Hallelujah Chorus, which can leave me in tears.
Fields Of Gold as sung by Eva Cassidey.
Non Nobis [Sp?] from the end of Agincourt in Branagh’s Henry V.
A song my old church would sing to families who where moving away called “God Standing by your side”. The lyrics I remember as "God Standing by your side / God’s hand over your head / God be with you / Till we meet again / Till then my friend, goodbye. " My church-going habits are almost nonexistant these days, but that song still gets me. An excellent funeral song too.
Satisfied Mind as dong by Jeff Buckley.
catch the wind - donovan
and
angel flying too close to the ground - willy nelson
both great songs, both unbelievably sad due to personal associations (can’t even bring myself to type why)
Ode to Joy When they knocked down the Berlin wall, they planned to perform this at the Brandenburg Gate. Then someone found an alternate version titled Ode to Freedom. I have the CD, and the thought of those two cities, united at last, and that anthem ringing out over that square…Every time I hear that now, I think of that moment.
Yep…that’s another one that sends my tear ducts going haywire. I’d forgotten about it because it’s been sooooooo many years since I heard it. Thanks for the memories nickannan.
The Promise, by Tracy Chapman. There is a sad quality to the music and her voice that makes me cry every time. The lyrics are beautiful and sad as well.
I can see how that song can make you tear up, dbydawdcapn. 
Is that the national anthem?
“Call Me” by the Seatbelts from the Cowboy BeBop episode “Hard Luck Woman” but probably because I know what’s gonna happen in the last episode.
There’s actually a lot of stuff that can make me cry – I seem to be getting weepier in my old age – but I can never remember it offhand. That said, a few examples…
Oh, me too… sniffle
I can listen to “Amazing Grace” without crying, but I have a hard time singing it. Also, there was a song we did in choir a few years back called “Mary Speaks” – it was a text by Madeleine L’Engle, from the point of view of the Virgin Mary as she holds her son, just taken down from the cross:
May I be faithful to this final test
In this last time I hold my child, my son,
his body close enfolded to my breast:
the holder held, the bearer borne,
Mourning to joy, darkness to morn…
It’s terribly unprofessional to weep onstage but…
Also, the last movement of Britten’s War Requiem absolutely slays me. Well, the whole piece does, but especially the final movement, with its setting of “Strange Meeting,” and especially when the two soloists sing “Let us sleep now…” and the choir answers with “In paradisum dedicant te Angeli…”
Let me make clear that I detest most opera, but this piece is special.
“Va Pensiero” is a choral piece written by Verdi for “Nabucco”, and basically is about the slaves of Israel or some such. The Italians were so taken with the lyrics and powerful music that it was adopted as a de facto national anthem. Verdi specified that no music be played at his funeral. When he died, the people of Florence lined the streets and sang this outrageously gorgeous piece as his procession passed by.
Put it on your stereo, crank it up to about 140 dB, and let it transport you.
Don’t Give Up - Kate Bush & Peter Gabriel
Cherry Popsicle - Jann Arden
I Grieve - Peter Gabriel (from City of Angels soundtrack)
and another vote for “I Can’t Make You Love Me” - Bonnie Raitt
I just have to post again to second “Call Me” from Cowboy Bebop… even if you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s just such a haunting song.
Also “I Don’t Like Mondays” from the Boomtown Rats. Just knowing what the song is about, and some of the lines. “Daddy doesn’t understand it/he always said that she was good as gold.”
And “Wish you Were Here” by Pink Floyd will get to me forever, if only because it makes me think of high school.
Me and Bobby McGee (the Janice Joplin version) gets me pretty much every time. I’m usually ok until it gets to:
I’d trade all my tomorrows
for one single yesterday,
holdin’ Bobby’s body next to mine.
And then I can’t sing along any more.
For years I couldn’t listen to Your Wildest Dreams by the Moody Blues without choking up, mostly because of some personal history associated with it.
I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserable hits me hard too.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
The Rose Bette Midler
Let It Be The Beatles
Night Moves Bob Seger
Will the Circle Be Unbroken the live version from the Circle II album performed by Johnny Cash and pretty much everybody else who sang on the album. A great album overall.
Country music has so many examples, mainly because of that great country tradition, the surprise twist at the end of the songs. (I’m convinced O’Henry was a closet country singer.) It’s hard to pick one, but a recent one is “One Last Time” by Dusty Drake. Lyrics here
Also, “Somewhere Out There” (as sung by Fievel the mouse) makes me cry because it makes me miss my little sister.
“Beth” by Kiss made me cry when I was a kid.
Honorable mention, as a song that does not actually make me cry, but does squeeze my heart somethin’ fierce: “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel.
Last but not least, “Grow Old Along With Me” sung by either John Lennon or Mary Chapin Carpenter.