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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.
--Karen |
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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: Phoenix AZ | Ballad Of The Green Barets |
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