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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.
What a powerful piece of music! |
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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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| "In The Ghetto" -Elvis |
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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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