# What songs make you cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347 "2005-03-13T17:25:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/61 "2005-03-16T04:38:34Z")
> [@MagicEyes](#): > > …Another one from way back is a song about a mine disaster (I think it was the Cumberland mine, somewhere in Nova Scotia). Very sad song. > > There’s blood on the coal, and miners lie > in roads that never saw sun nor sky, > roads that never saw sun nor sky. > ( That would be Ballad Of Spring Hill (Spring Hill Disaster). Happened in Spring Hill, Nova Scotia. It was written by Peggy Seeger, but also performed by Peter, Paul & Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Sample\_the\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@Sample\_the\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sample_the_Dog)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/62 "2005-03-16T04:41:41Z")
LifeOnWry, you just put me in mind of **Mining for Gold** , another one that can do it for me. It has family associations for me. Can’t you feel the rock dust in your lungs? It’ll cut down a miner when he is still young. Two years in the silicosis takes hold. And I feel like I’m dying from mining for gold. I feel like I’m dying from mining for gold. **TB Sheets** , by Van Morrison, can affect me for much the same reason. The part where he’s making excuses to leave his dying lover’s room… just tears me up. After tending to dying family, knowing what that’s like, and the crushing, overwhelming, unrelieved regret that comes to you unbidden, thinking, “I could have done more… I should have done more… it would have been such a little thing to do… why didn’t I do more?” ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/63 "2005-03-16T04:42:47Z")
> [@Skellington](#): > > Better Than Chocolate by Sarah McLachlan gets me because it is played at the end of the movie Better Than Chocolate and it has a happy end. I think you’re refering to “Ice Cream” by Sarah Mclachlan (Your love is better than chocolate is one of the lines in the song, however). ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/64 "2005-03-16T08:43:14Z")
> [@Indygrrl](#): > > It’s weird, but _Wild, Wild Life_, by the Talking Heads always makes me tear up. It’s a really happy song, but for some reason it always gets me. It has the same effect on me, for pretty much the same reason. Louis Armstrong’s _What a Wonderful World_ gets me, probably because of the kind of movies I usually see it featured in. Warren Zevon’s _Please Stay_ is probably the worst for me, though. It’s in the same category with _Tears in Heaven_ as songs I wouldn’t even think twice about if I didn’t know the story behind why they were written. It reminds me a lot of some of the feelings I was having when I was waiting to hear my prognosis, and also of how different his was from mine. ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/65 "2005-03-16T08:50:09Z")
**Seasons in the Son** and the mentioned **Cats in the Cradle**. ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/66 "2005-03-16T08:52:59Z")
> [@joazito](#): > > **Seasons in the Son** Well that was almost spelled right… I’ll add some lyrics while I’m at it: **Seasons in the Sun** by Terry Jacks: Goodbye to you, my trusted friend. We’ve known each other since we’re nine or ten. Together we climbed hills or trees. Learned of love and ABC’s, skinned our hearts and skinned our knees. Goodbye my friend, it’s hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky, Now that the spring is in the air. Pretty girls are everywhere. When you see them I’ll be there. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun. But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time. ---
**Author:** ![Skellington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Skellington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skellington)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347/67 "2005-03-16T10:24:05Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > I think you’re refering to “Ice Cream” by Sarah Mclachlan (Your love is better than chocolate is one of the lines in the song, however). I think you’d be right on this one. 🙂 I heard it in the movie then used a keyword search and downloaded it. That’s just what the file was called, I never really though hard about the title. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/294347.md?page=3)