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The three songs which never fail to make me blub are Sailing by Rod Stewart, Nice To See You by the SA group Mango Groove and either or both versions of Candle In The Wind by Sir Elton John.

When I read the subject line, I thought you were talking about songs that made you pee the bed.  Now I'm disappointed.

Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O' Sullivan.

If this one dosen't make you cry, you're already dead and noone's been nice enough to tell you  :buggedout:

Silent Lucidity by Queensryche, its the innocence of children sleeping and counting on their parents to chase the bad dreams away theme that gets me.  With three kids, its impossible for me not to react that way to it.

When Somebody Loved Me by Sarah McLaughlin simply because it reminds me of Jessie's story in Toy Story 2.  Very sad indeed.  Hearing my four year old sing it brings it on worse.

Thank God For Kids by The Oak Ridge Boys, once again childhood innocence.  

Your Song by Elton John, it just kind of reminds me of my life with my wife and family.

Lady In Red by Chris Deburg, I find it to be one of the most beautiful songs about loving someone.

Through The Years By Kenny Rogers, I dance with my mother to this song at my wedding. 

Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks. 

It was about a terminally ill man saying goodbye to his friends and family.

"We had joy, we had fun
we had seasons in the sun
but the hills that we climbed
were just seasons out of time."

That line always gets me for some reason.


Also, there was some song in the mid 90's the title of which escapes me.

Part of the lyrics went:

"Somebody's daughter...lies under the water"

The song was about a girl who committed suicide by jumping into the ocean, if I remember right.  It was good for a few tears.

While it dosen't get me really crying, I always feel a slight of emptiness when I hear Baby Be Good by The Smithereens.  It's a sad song about trust and the fear of betrayal, and I know that all of us guys at one time or another felt this way whenever we were away from that one lady we all loved so much.  Give it a whirl here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMNpcY6TezY

Hurt by Johnny Cash gets me every time i hear it. The day he died, they played it on the local new rock station. When it was over the d.j came on and was crying as he announced he had passed away.

Yeah, Johnny Cash was THE rebel. Always dressed in black and each of his songs a story about his life. He was one hard livin' S.O.B. too-he HAD to be, serving time at both Folsom and San Quentin prisons. 

Every line on his face had a story to tell about hard-learned lessons, When it came to hard assed good old boys, they didn't get any tougher than Johnny Cash. He was the real deal.

This is the only song that ever made my eyes tear up. It's just beautiful and true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuq7RYQ8Wa0

If somebody mentions Charlene - I've Never Been To Me I'm gonna puke  :bouncegiggle:

I've never cried listening to a song, but I was emotionally moved listening to The Cross by Prince for the first time.

"Lightning Crashes" by Live gets to me almost every time I hear it.

"Down in a Hole" by Alice In Chains, especially the Unplugged version - wow, seeing that was one of Layne Staly's last performances and the emotion he puts into it...

"Caroline" by Concrete Blonde

"Carry Me Across the Mountain" by Dan Tyminski

Quite a few others, actually.  Music gets "inside" me sometimes, especially when I am already feeling emotional.

"Georgia Lee" by Tom Waits.  It's about the real life murder of a 12 year old girl.

"Why wasn't God watching?
Why wasn't God listening?
Why wasn't God there for Georgia Lee?"

How about MULL OF KINTYRE:

"Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the time of the Mull of Kintyre"

And those bagpipes just get to me every time . . .

Another Smithereens song, House We Used To Live In from the 1987 album, "Green Thoughts."

It's very special to me on a semtimental level, for good reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZz2vLUt1Ek&nofeather=True

I was wondering when someone was going to mention that song.  :buggedout: :buggedout: :buggedout:

Another song that makes me misty-eyed is I'll Be Missing You by PDiddy and Faith Evans: the version that PD performed at The Concert For Diana in 2007 floored me emotionally. Come to think of it, there's another rap song that is also very emotional ~ I think it's called See You When You Get There.

Two others are GOING HOME by Dire Straits and LIVE IS LIFE by Opus. Those always hit my emotional centre hard.

Roses For Mama, a 1978 song by C.W. McCall, who also had a huge hit with the song "Convoy" in the earlier 70's.  It was around 1974 or '5 if I remember right. 

I'm not a country music fan, but I remember hearing it a LOT on mainstream radio back in the day, as I guess it was one of those songs that had that sort of transcendency.  Also based on a true story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ELWgMp5Ik

Growing up in Germany back in the day I learned to hate Live is Life by Opus with great passion. It was such a huge hit here and especially popular during beer fests in those huge beer tents. People would go NUTS over the song, climbing on tables, stomping their feet while clapping hands like those wind-up monkey dolls with cymbals.

Then there was the time we went camping and across the lake somebody would BLAST that song, looped, a couple of hours every night. Worst torture ever  :bluesad:

Sorry about that but I rate Live is Life as one of the worst songs from the 80s, right next to Don't Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin  :wink:

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Why did I only see this post now?  :teddyr:

I just discovered, after watching footage of the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg where South Africa won that the song The World In Union as sung by Ladysmith Black Mambadzo and P J Powers makes me blub big time. I do blub but on that day, South Africa was united as never before or since.  :teddyr:

How about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fqJkTeDNU

 :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr: :teddyr:

BLESS THE WINGS THAT BRING YOU BACK by The Moody Blues also makes me a bit misty-eyed: the song makes me think of Princess Diana for some reason.

Dont Forget The Hard Times by Jim Stafford is sorta a combo song im embarassed to like/brings on the waterworks kinda doohickey :tongueout:

Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks (1974).  This song made me cry as a kid.  When I heard the lyrics "goodbye Michelle, it's hard to die, when all the birds are singing in the sky" I would just fall apart.  Mainly because my name is Michelle and also because I never felt loved by my family when I was a child and here is this guy feeling sad that he's departing the world and leaving Michelle behind.......well it just had me sobbing until I couldn't breathe.  It still chokes me up even now, although I haven't heard the song in God alone knows how long.

These days it would have to be "One" by U2.  That song leaves me in a dribbly emotional mess, even though I love it so.

I agree about that song KB: very sad indeed and it is quite possible that Jacques Brel was dying when he wrote it as Le moribund. Terry Jacks' If You Go Away is also very sad.

You're not the only only one, Killer Bees. 

I was 10 in 1974 when this one played on the radio,  and as one who was just beginning to learn about life and death in those tender years, I also cried when I came to fully understand the meaning of the song.

And yes, it hurts to listen to it even now.   

I too felt unloved as a kid-I couldn't talk to or with my father about anything.
Any little interruption, and little thing I or my mom needed him for, always met with a sea of verbal abuse and condescension.  My mother did everything to placate him, and swam in a sea of complacency for fear of upsetting him, until she finally saw the light in 1980 and filed for divorce out of being plain sick and tired of the whole thing. She woke up.

Anyway, this is mainly about the song, and not about us, but just to let you know you weren't the only one who felt unloved. I too know how much it hurts. [[HUGS]]  :smile:

There was another song which made me sad when I was a kid but I haven't heard it in ages: Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast.

A bit newer, but both the original and the reprise of I'll Cover You from RENT.  This is probably one of the only times I have cried at a song or a movie.  It's just so sad....  I mean, just watch the normal one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Qq3gJhuE4) and then watch the reprise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAaXD9PscQs).  How can you not cry?!?!

This song sums up the life of Mister Rogers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-mz0CSeWg

It's Not You by Halestorm.  There's probably a lot of guys tearing their hearts out by playing this one over and over again after they found out their girlfriends put them on top of the trash heap.  It also makes me sad because I remember the first time one of my old GF's told me I no longer had a sapce on her hard drive anymore...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGgC3wfOfos

The reason I like Live Is Life is because freedom for Eastern Europe seemed to follow in its' wake and that was nothing bad. :thumbup:

The Smithereens had a song called House We Used To Live In that always gets me a tear or two.  From the time I was was born to the time I was around 7, we lived in this lovely one-floor modular in old Lebanon, NJ.

I loved that house so much...What makes me sad is the way the singer sees the ghost images of his memories as he goes thru the house and sees his family in the kitchen and such.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZz2vLUt1Ek&playnext=1&list=PL14FA89167E4DE3C0&index=39