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Location: Atlanta, GA. | I seem to recall an interview with Elvis where he said that Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I could Cry" was the saddest song he had ever heard.
I can think of several that are much sadder to me. Perhaps because they involve kids...
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
Don't Cry Daddy - Mac Davis
How 'bout y'all? Anything really move you? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | This is one of my favorite artists. I truly appreciate traditional Irish folk music.Brendan Nolan wrote this years ago, and it's one of those timeless haunting songs because of the truth in it.
Go here and scroll down to "Far From Their Home, A Song of Grosse Isle."
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=52094
Here's the story behind the song from the liner notes:
About "Far From Their Home (A Song of Grosse Isle)":
Over a million people left Ireland during the so-called famine. Many left one hell only to have it substituted for another. The island of Grosse Isle in the St. Laurence near Quebec city was a quarantine station which saw its resources stretched to the limit during the years of 1846 and '47. To the thousands who are buried there, R.I.P.
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Patch, That is awesome! |
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Location: GA USA | I went to a funeral a couple of years ago, where they played a recording or Johnny Cash's version of Hurt. Sad enough song. Sadder that someone would play it at a funeral. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | My personal sad song is "If" by Bread - not because the song itself is sad, but because of a time of my life that should have happeneded differently. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | "99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall"
Just hate the way that ends. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | At my Great Uncle's Funeral (he was really the only "grandfather" I ever had) they played a "Call and Answer" Taps (he was a WWII vet).
For those who are not familiar with it, one bugle player plays a phrase next to the casket and then another bugler somewhere, way off in the distance and unseen, answers the first player. As they near the end they soften their playing and the Player in the distance gradually fades out until he is no longer heard and no longer answers.
I was overwhelmed by sadness when I heard that distant bugle... taken completely by surprise by the force of that unexpected, sudden and profound sadness. |
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Location: Central Florida | Clapton's "Tears in Heaven." When it first came out, I couldn't listen to it without tearing up just thinking about the unspeakable sorrow from which the song came. |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | For me, there is a Trace Adkins song called "Dreamin' Out Loud" that pretty much rips me a new one when I hear it.....probably because it's a true story.....I know the guy it happened to. :eek: :cool: :confused: |
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Location: ranson,wva | there is a few songs that get me but the most recent one is hate me by blue october...tears in heaven is another one...jason |
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Location: NJ | lou reed from the Berlin LP the song is called "the kids" it is about a heroin addicted mother who turns tricks instead of taking care of her kids and how the authorities are "taking her children away". At the end of the tune the kids start to cry "mommy...mommy...mommy" never a dry eye in the house after that one! |
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Location: NJ | "The Shortest Story" by Harry Chapin |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My wife has spent a lifetime singing professionally. Hearing her sing the Lord's Prayer at her father's funeral tore everybody up. We have no idea how she did it because for the rest of the service, both before and after her singing, she was pretty shaken herself. |
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Location: Atlanta GA | Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done |
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Location: Atlanta GA | That's why I don't post very much, I mentioned Neil Young Needle and the Damage Done and then read the preavious post from ProfessorBB about his wife singing at her father's funeral and immeadiatly wished I had kept my mouth shut and let everybody wonder if I was stupid instead of opening it and removing any doubt. |
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Location: Reno, NV | The saddest songs are the ones that remind you of someone you miss. It really doesn't matter what the song is about. |
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Location: Colorado | A new country artist by the name of Jason Michael Carroll does a song called "Alyssa Lies". The song talks about a girl that comes home from school everyday and tells her father that this girl at school, Alyssa, gets asked by the teacher and kids about the bruises and other marks on her body and that Alyssa lies about how she got them. One night the father realizes that he needs to stand up for Alyssa. But the morning he shows up at school to talk to someone about it, it's too late. Now Alyssa don't lie anymore...
I heard it in the car with the wife and our 5 and almost 3 year old sons. I almost had to pull over. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Public radio has a segment titles "In the driveway". Its songs or accounts that make you want to pull over or just sit in your driveway and finish before going in. Always touching content. |
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Location: SoCal | Amazing Grace played on bagpipes. I'm having it played at my funeral.... it's the only way I'll get people to cry there.
Jimmy Webb's I Keep It Hid. It described something in my life from 30 years ago.
But I also have songs that describe the love for my wife today that can make me just spill over with emotion... not all tears are a sadness...... |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Obviously Weaser is using sarcasm and humor in an attempt to block out and
suppress his more sensitive side. Avoiding those manly tears is not the
answer! Let it out son, let it out! :D
Island of Maui, top deck of Cheeseburger in Paradise. The setting sun has
painted the sky with more colors than crayola ever thought of. The breeze
off the water kisses your face as the welcome coolness takes the day. All of
us are wearing lovely aloha clothes, well picked so as not to look too
Touristy but still wanting to get the full vacation effect!
I drop into that quiet place, listening to family and friends in discussion,
soaking in the conversations and atmosphere.
The "Band", a solo guitar player with various helper effects starts doing
that Bonnie Raitt song "I can't make you love me". I look over and watch my now ex Wife.
There in the most perfect place on the planet I realize that no matter what I do, where we go or how hard I push this marriage isn't going to work. I think of my Daughters and the dreams and goals that will have to change. In a few moments I go from denial to depression and start that slow climb toward acceptance and change. I start to prepare for the inevitable.
Now when I hear it, its a song of passage and arrival. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Woody - wow! You certainly do have a way of painting a picture. I've been to that place a few times (and I don't mean Maui!). I somehow always seem to turn away from the inevitable. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Originally posted by Yak:
The saddest songs are the ones that remind you of someone you miss. It really doesn't matter what the song is about. so true ...
there's a song called "What Might Have Been" by a group called Little Texas, which reminded me of a girl I was once engaged to. I learned to play the song and sang it tirelessly, with almost, weeping results in the early to mid-1990s. Although I was responsible for burning the bridge and walking away without looking back, it took me over three years to get over her.
Fourteen years later, it's a different story now -- I finished grad school and established my career, met someone who was even more special [who is now my lovely wife], got a house and settled in L.I. -- but every now and then, as the song goes, I still "think about her" and it's also better not to "think about what might have been."
Reconciling our broken relationship is unlikely, but I can only wish her the best -- wherever she is... |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Lots of depressing choices. I'm working on "What Might Have Been" this week. Finally figured out Powertab. My blubbering song is "Photographs and Memories." Not just because I'm a Croce fan, but because it's the background to his concert dvd I bought a couple years ago. It plays when they show clips of Jim and his baby boy. I can't watch it without getting choked up about how Croce died shortly after that and his son doesn't really remember him. |
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Location: CT | You wanna sad song? I got plenty. Just pick any song you like. Even a happy one. Then listen to me play it. Now that's sad! Not a dry eye in the house! ..er... uh...everyone left... |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | "Four Strong Winds" is a sad one given the right context. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Cat's In The Cradle has always seemed to be the sad sad song that most can relate to at one time or another. There have been times (for me) that it is just a good song and other times that it just tears me up.
I had a great relationship with my dad but it could have been better.....same with my kids....good but could be much better. |
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Location: Waurika OK | Moody, you are right about Amazing Grace on bagpipes. 16 years ago we were in Kentucky at Cane Ridge. An entire bagpipe band played it. I teared up all the way through the song. A close second for that is the time the grandson of a man whom I had known for many years played Amazing Grace on his fiddle/violin at the grave side.
Another one for me is "Old Shep".
Also Matt Smith has one about a young woman he met on the streets of New York City, sorry I can't remember the name (don't have the CD here). It is so true to life for way too many of our young people in this nation. |
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Location: Colorado | Good call Stephen. I heard "Cat's In The Cradle" on the way to work yesterday and thought alot about my dad and the good relationship we have. We didn't used to have that though. But I'm sure I don't call enough or email enough pics of the kids to he and my mom. Being 1000 miles away just makes it tough to see them on a semi-regular basis. I also thought about my boys and how I don't deny my own agenda enough for them. I think that's a difficult one for any of us to admit.
Another song that gets me every time is "Cowboy Bill" by Garth Brooks.
I'm surprised though. No one has mentioned "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks!! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Call me an opportunist, but on a blind date in 1967, I took a chance and stuck a tape of Bobby Goldsboro singing "Honey" into the 8-track. It broke the ice but quick! I'll never forget that song and what followed in my '57 Ford that evening.
On another note, GC ended his concert last month with an encore of Amazing Grace played on his electric bagpipes. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | "Get it While You Can" by Janis Joplin.
Both JJ and the recently departed Ms. Smith had self destructive personalities which ultimately led to their demise. Janis however had real talent. The emotion that she put into this song makes one wonder if she knew that the end was near and she was just doing what she says in the title. I feel that emotion every time I hear the song. |
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Location: big island | i gotta agree with the professor about the sadness of Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey".
then there's "Watch the Lamb" by Ray Boltz
the song that chokes me up nowadays is "Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | "Walkin' Her Home" by Mark Schultz. Tears and commuting are definitely not a good combination.
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Location: Colorado | "Holes In The Floor Of Heaven" by Steve Wariner.
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill. |
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Location: south east Michigan | When I was in 3rd grade....
Puff The Magic Dragon |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Seeing Moody play anything longer than 12 frets to the body.
What an incredible waste of fretboard... |
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Location: Athens, GA & Gnashville | Originally posted by MWoody:
Seeing Moody play anything longer than 12 frets to the body.
What an incredible waste of fretboard... There ain't no money past the 5th fret anyway! |
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Location: SoCal | Ha! So there! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Unfortunately, there ain't much money available at the first 5 either... |
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Location: big island | now that makes for a sad song if i ever heard one. |
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Location: Australia | "Till I Die" - Brian Wilson
....also a song by an Aussie Paul Kelly about a guy in prison at Christmas with the curious title
"How To Make Gravy"
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | "Debbie Gibson is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child"--Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper always got me all emotional. |
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Location: Michigan | "" Red Sovine "" Greatest Hits""
I double dare anyone to download these two songs.
Roses for Mama
Teddy Bear
If anyone can keep a dry eye on these two songs I will quit trucking & sell my CB radio .
You must not be part of the human race !!! Oh crap I keep forgeting , this is the OFC ,, we are not part of the human race.
Theres just something about those truckin songs that just tears me up inside. GWB |
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Location: Tennessee | There always seem to be songs that come along that hit me hard ... in addition to many of the above, "Luka" by Suzanne Vega was a tough one, and also "Tomorrow I'll Be Nine" by E. Most recently, the closing track to Warren Zevon's "The Wind" album -- "Keep Me In Your Heart" really got to me. |
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Location: Parkersburg, WV | You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor
Mad World - from the Donnie Darko Soundtrack
Patsbro |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by Todd G.:
"Holes In The Floor Of Heaven" by Steve Wariner.
"Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill. I agree Todd.
Here a few more that'll tug at your heartstrings and make you hold your wife a little closer.....
"Love Me" by Collin Raye
"Where've You Been" by Kathy Mattea
"One More Day" and "I Believe" by Diamond Rio |
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Location: North Carolina | I saw Billy Joel in 1984. When he did "Goodnight Saigon" it opened with a rotor wash track that made you think there were really choppers overhead. When he got to the chorus, the lights came up on what had to be roadies, techies etc who sang with him. It tore your heart out, whether or not you were a vet. |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | In the Arms of an Angel by Sarah McLaughlin because I associate it with a funeral.
Jeff W's bugle and answer would certainly provide closure |
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Location: Taiwan | I made fun of it as a kid, when my mom teared up. Now, If other people are in the room, I sometimes fast forward it so they don't see me tear up. Does that mean I'm grown up now? I doubt it.
Joan Baez - Prison Trilogy |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | "Season's in the Sun"
"Tell Laura I Love Her" |
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Location: closely held secret | No, Jeff.
Saddest like, "that's the saddest song I've ever heard.".
Not like, "that's the saddest excuse for a song I've ever heard.". |
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Location: big island | ...that jeff w., ya just can't take him anywhere! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Life Without You - SRV, which will forever be tied to one of the saddest moments in Lady Weaser's, and therefore my, life. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
No, Jeff.
Saddest like, "that's the saddest song I've ever heard.".
Not like, "that's the saddest excuse for a song I've ever heard.". Oh. Thanks for the clarification. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Strange Kind Of Woman by Deep Purple always gets me. |
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Location: Parrish, FL | Miles,
Are you sure?
Me? I'd say the hymn Amazing Grace, not because it is so sad, but because of the memories it envokes. It actually is a glorious song. I wanted to play it at my Mom's funeral....Couldn't pull myself together long enough to pull it off.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Blues,
Got to play the Todd Agnew version of Amazing Grace at a "Life Celebration" acoustically a few months back. Its an off shoot that contains the jist of the song with some updates to tempo and technique.
Try a variation to get through it. |
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Location: big island | Blues,
have you checked out the version of "Amazing Grace" i posted on the YouTube thread a couple weeks ago?
it's on page 19 of the thread. |
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Location: big island | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK8Ev1l1hA
excellent sad song by michael kelly blanchard:
"Daddy Cut My Hair" |
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| The saddest song is "Mull of Kyntire" - this is a guy who wrote Eleanor Rigby and Yesterday and is reduced to the worst drivel ever put on vinyl.
So, so sad. And we won't go near "Just another silly love song" and the frog thing. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | XTC - Hold Me My Daddy |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Patches - Jimmy Isle:
Patches, I'm dependin on you son,
I tried to do my best,
It's up to you to do the rest... |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Speaking of "Amazing Grace",
I once heard a guy sing it to the tune of "Ghost Riders in the Sky"...
Still don't know why.
Well, there was alcohol involved! |
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Location: big island | i have sung "amazing grace" to the tune of "house of the rising sun". it works well actually! |
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Location: Westchester, NY | I always thought torch songs were amoung the saddest, like;
"Sylvia's Mother" by Dr. Hook
"Seperate ways" by Journey
"Total eclipse of the heart" by Bonnie Tyler
Also the ones which make life pointless like;
"Dust in the Wind" by Kansas, amazing song but read the lyric |
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