# What Songs Make You Cry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652 "2008-01-23T10:28:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652/1 "2008-01-23T10:28:48Z")
To complete the trilogy… _Virginia Woolf_, the Indigo Girls _Seasons of Love_, from _Rent_ (aka 525,600 Minutes) _And I Am Telling You_, by Jennifer Holliday (performed live on _Great Performances_) and of course _Puff the Magic Dragon_, Peter Paul and Mary ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652/2 "2008-01-23T10:45:49Z")
[Ghost](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lleQPaALSLo) [Town](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYMzYan0VN4) by **Huns and Dr. Beeker** (About Chernobyl) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652/3 "2008-01-23T10:49:12Z")
I’m an English bloke, so I don’t do crying. However if I did it would be: [A Minute’s Noise for John](http://www.mitchbenn.org/aminutesnoiseforjohn.htm) by Mitch Benn. Written for a Radio 4 comedy show of all things. Anyone British will supply some context if required. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652/4 "2008-01-23T14:19:30Z")
[QUOTE=Small Clanger] I’m an English bloke, so I don’t do crying. However if I did it would be: [A Minute’s Noise for John](http://www.mitchbenn.org/aminutesnoiseforjohn.htm) by Mitch Benn. Written for a Radio 4 comedy show of all things. Anyone British will supply some context if required. [/QUOTE] Those are lovely lyrics. Poor auld John. My nomination is _Down There By The Train_ by **Tom Waits**. Waits has dozens of weepy songs but this one, a spiritual hits me harder than any of the others. He wrote it for Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652/5 "2008-01-23T14:23:18Z")
[_Killkelly_](http://ameba.lpt.fi/~zaphod/lyrics/kilkelly) by Peter Jones. The first time I heard it was at an Irish fest in Chicago. When the song ended, half the audience was bawling. I played it for my 15 year old son and he said that if he played it for any of the emo kids at his school that they would slash their wrists on the spot. [\* I Would Die for That\*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqfGqOx2iDQ) by Kellie Coffey. It really hits home for anybody who has desperately wanted a child. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-make-you-cry/434652/6 "2008-01-23T14:49:47Z")
Willie Nelson, “You Were Always on My Mind.” So poignant.