As long as we're doing songs today, got one that just tears up the eyes?

My dear late father used to play Bobby Burns songs and Sea Shanties on the stereo. One in particular, stands in my memory above all others.



"A-Rovin" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000JPC1

I cannot listen to that song without seeing my father's face, and tears in my eyes. If I've had a drink or two, I'm for a good cry.

Miss that man.

But I like ducks. so did Dad.

We played it at her funeral.

:cry:

:hug:

It must have a really deep meaning for you, my friend.

:cry: :cry:
:hi:

:hug:

Never sang above a loud whisper.

:hug:

:hug:

Nice to see you.

:hug:

Nice to see you too.

this one is almost too much for me right now.

we've had a week of rain/overcast weather. my sister sent me a dvd of old home movies, from when I was a kid and from when my kids were kids. I've been a mess ever since I watched that dvd.

:)

1. It's the song that plays while Heather is dying in Highlander. I can't watch that part without crying like a little girl and it reminds me of that scene.

2. Freddie knew he was sick when he recorded it.

Context makes a difference.

I haven't seen the movie in a while.

The one on the album is even better but this gives you an idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbwWiffSRRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq-ZmAYLeB8

*sigh*

"I'll Be Seeing You" - Billie Holiday
"Yesterday" - The Beatles
"Without You" - Harry Nilsson
"Back to Black" - Amy Winehouse
"Happy Birthday to You" - Patty Hill & Mildred J. Hill

her voice is so beautiful and she died so young and her talent wasn't really discovered and appreciated until after she died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs

Has personal meaning to me.....

5am
Friday morning
Thursday night
Far from sleep
I'm still up and driving
Can't go home
obviously
So I'll just change direction
Cause they'll soon konw where I live
And I wanna live

Got a full tank and some chips
It was me and a gun
And a man on my back
And I sang "holy holy" as he buttoned down his pants
You can laugh
It's kind of funny things you think
at times like these
Like I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this

Yes I wore a slinky red thing
Does that mean I should spread
For you, your friends your father, Mr. Ed

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this
Yes I wore a slinky red thing
Does that mean I should spread
For you, your friends your father, Mr. Ed
And I know what this means
Me and Jesus a few years back
Used to hang and he said
"It's your choice babe just remember
I don't think you'll be back in 3 days time
So you choose well"
Tell me what's right
Is it my right to be on my stomach
on Fred's Seville

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this

And do you know Carolina
Where the biscuits are soft and sweet
These things go through you head
When there's a man on your back
And you're pushed flat on your stomach
It's not a classic cadillac

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this



Khash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cLjIJuaMjU

That one will turn me into a blubbering mess if I watch it.

A Christmas song by Alabama. When I left for bootcamp in October 1972 my Mom put a Christmas Candle (Electric) in my bedroom window so I could find my way home. Mom and Dad are gone but that candle is still in my bedroom window. And to make matters worse the song is almost scripted to this story. I very seldom listen to that song anymore.

"They're tryin' to wash us away..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekw29yNgQJE

Tearjerking power increased by several orders of magnitude on 8/29/05. :(

by Tracy Chapman. :cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

And one of the few Beatles covers I actually liked, 'Across the Universe', covered by Rufus Wainwright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H71Fv3PcQQY

It came out right around the time that my Mom died and I spent a lot of time trying to find a reason to go on. I took it really hard and this song reminds me of those times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XM4oQGp6uw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z28yAI2okuM

"Look I find some of what you teach suspect, because I'm used to relying on intellect, but I try to open up to what I don't know, because reason says I should have died three years ago..."

Of course, most of "Rent" is likely to make me laugh hysterically or sob like a broken child, so...

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But only the version by S&G, not the Yes one.

Here are Simon & Garfunkel at their Central Park reunion concert, 1981.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vCbOEZ8c8dM

When they sing "And the moon rose over an open field," I just bust out crying. "America" may be the closest Paul Simon has ever come to pure poetry.

it gets to me, it's his poetry I suppose, everything he sings sounds so sweet to me :cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTkt_ZRMxg

:cry: :cry: :cry:

right after my brother died of AIDS

this is one song that WISH I could hate

and not listen to.....


but it always pulls me in....


:hug:



lost

I wasn't going to watch
I wasn't going to listen......

damn

:cry:

Johnny Cash, "In My Life" (The Beatles' song is appropriate for a later-in-life wedding. The Cash version, a funeral.)
Gary Jules, "Mad World" (and yet the original was my ringtone for awhile).

always reminds me of my Dad and how much I still miss him and wish he was still here, even after 20 years.:cry:

aunt skeeter. probably the kindest person ive ever known. "the end of the world" by skeeter davis. RIP aunt skeeter. you are terribly missed.

Gets me everytime......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC-9QTpuvuo

Thank for posting!

I've never watched this video, it's his voice gets me :cry:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAQTwc8Oas

"I passed you up when the USS Indianapolis sunk, but not now sailor boy!" chrunch, "m-m-m-m-m"

Pippin's song from LOTR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPkz-CQa6Ts

The Riders of Rohan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTVHAIHDRcg

The theme for the Lorien elves always gives me chills too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtI3RtI2pPw&feature=related

And the passing of the Wood elves is another beauty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzx2KQ7VM5E&feature=related

But for me, I think the Rohan theme in that part really stuck in my head just 'cause I'm a string player. :)

because of it's Celtic flavor. I tried really hard to find a clip of the music when the remaining fellowship first approaches the castle (when the flag blows away in the breeze). The theme there is striking and the set was gorgeous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVVWDSFFhc&feature=related



because it's beautiful
and it means LOTR was over.....
I could go for one a year......


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lost

:)

If you've seen the extras on the extended DVD and you see the part about the kid who was the inspiration for that song you won't be able to NOT cry every time you hear that song again.

my DVDs


its an addiction



lost

but I've got the soundtracks going right now. :) Right now it's on Gollum's song.


Where once was light
now darkness falls
where once was love
love is no more...

her daughter.

This version is by Harry Belafonte(? I think it's actually Ed Ames), and it was an early 60s commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBWVWjdNWC0

I read somewhere that Malvina Reynolds claimed her daughter turned out well mostly due to Reynolds husband, who was the stay-at-home parent.

Thanks!

:hi:

It's about a child being abandoned by his father. It makes me sad even though I don't really relate to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8be5pmO_G_M

About wanting to stop the clock, so that the time to say goodbye never arrives.

Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim. We aren't doing enough and probably will never be able to. And that's the saddest part of all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tluogv9EGTQ

Beach Boys - Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder). You gotta wonder if a higher power went through Big Bri while writing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gedC4rOeMkI

Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) - Father and Son. It's even more heart-wrenching seeing his older self sing this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48EkBy-SUc&feature=related

Greg Lake - Father Christmas. One of my favorite carols of all time, even if it does lift a little from Prokofiev.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqOfXumI18A

I think I like the more recent version too.

by Ennio Morricone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s0-wbXC3pQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dipFMJckZOM

Starry
starry night
paint your palette blue and grey
look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils
catch the breeze and the winter chills
in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how
perhaps they'll listen now.
Starry
starry night
flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze
swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain
weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight on that starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.
Starry
starry night
portraits hung in empty halls
frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met
the ragged men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me
how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not
list'ning still
perhaps they never will

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg5V_iwa1Pk


subject matter is awesome to


lost

:)

The Pogues version, for preference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPFjToKuZQM

Harry Chapin's 'A Better Place'.

And thinking about it, Bonnie Tyler's 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'

Such a powerful and emotional song. I think anyone who has ever loved someone and lost them can identify with the song.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE