Puff the Magic Dragon makes me cry

Yes, Puff makes me sad too. I heard it when I was quite little and it made me howl! My teacher was concerned because every story I wrote had a little dying boy and a dragon in it.

That's very sad, Janerowena! Young children do take things so literally though and it's understandable that you'd think the boy had died rather than just grown out of believing in dragons.

I keep having to remind DH that our GC don't always 'get' his jokey responses to their perfectly reasonable questions...

He's training them up well though!

I've always felt the same about Puff MamaCaz it used to be played a lot on all the request shows in the 60's

I love Scarlet Ribbons too.

My "weepies" are:

From a Distance - Bette Midler
Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
Blackbird - Paul Macartney
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
Witchita Linesman - Glenn Campbell
It Was a Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
Mucky Kid - Cilla Black

I think the words to The Day Before You Came by Abba are so clever, especially the way the almost mundane account builds up to the last few line

The Lark Ascending

I am also tearful when I watch on YouTube 'On a clear day' by Barbara Steisand. I think it reminds me of my youth and how things used to be.

Andrew Gold 'Lonely Boy' is another weepie. He wrote 'Thank you for being a friend' and some other classics.

Eloethan I am going to listen to your choice with a box of tissues at my side.

I love 'The Day Before You Came' too Eloethan and have never met anyone else who 'got it'.

I also well up at 'I will always love you' particularly by Dolly Patton.

Lots of country songs are very moving. And a Meatloaf one, the title of which has just 'gone'.

DH and I are like Jack Spratt and his wife in our musical rastes - he likes the music while I love the words!

The BBC theme tune for the London Marathon coverage always brings a tear to my eye, but I don't realy know why!

In case anyone was worried - the Meatloaf song is called 'Is nothing sacred' -phew!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has been driving along in the car with tears pouring down my face because of a record that's come on the radio!!!
Unlike Puff, which sets me off just thinking of the words, the culprits on the radio have come right out of the blue with no obvious reason for my reaction other than pure nostalgia.
(Does my last sentence even make sense? I'm not sure, but hopefully you know what I'm trying to say!)

Oh, definitely. I just thought of 'Annie's Song' and as I have just dropped my son off at the coach station to return to his Uni city, I was a bit weepy. Then that song came into my head and I was off! Still, a good blub is very cathartic. Although 'I'm leaving on a National Express Coach' doesn't have quite the same ring as 'I'm Leaving on a Jetplane'.

Are you sure you've got the right song, janerowena?

There's nothing about leaving on any form of transport in Annie's Song!

No, no transport, just came into my mind and that was it! I was off!

I just remembered why it would set me off - a boyfriend bought it for me as a teen just before he and his parents moved away.

Wichita lineman by Glen Campbell always brings a tear to my eye.Brings back happy and sad memories from my teen years.So sorry to hear he has Alzheimer's disease

That's a very haunting one, how sad.

This one, Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler on the Roof.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLLEBAQLZ3Q

Where the parents wonder how their children became old enough to marry and move away.

That is SO lovely!

Portuna, the Glen Campbell tape was played endlessly on car journeys when DC were young (partly because we loved it and partly because we couldn't afford to buy many tapes at the time!).

We used to sing this in the car when we were on family holidays Sometimes I would like to go back. (We weren't actually in America. More likely the Yorkshire Dales )

My nine year old DGD plays Annie's Song so beautifully on the flute I well up at the first few notes.

Most of Gilbert o'Sullivan's songs bring a tear to my eye.

He wrote some achingly poignant stuff.

including this one

Oh! I can imagine that Merlot. It must sound lovely on a flute, especially when played by a grandchild.

Such meaningful and emotive comments.
I love these sorts of threads.
For me it has to be the ones that my dad sang to me when I was little: "Magic Moments", "Que sera sera" and "Tiptoe through the Tulips" as he worked long shifts as a foreman at Siemens and I treasured the moments I spent with him.
The Moody Blues: "Go now," affects me deeply and just sums up the atmosphere of the 60s.
But the most powerful is Loreena McKennett's "The Lady of Shallot" which sends a shiver down my spine just recalling the title.

They just don't make them like they used to do they?

Will they say the same in 50 years' time about One Direction?

It's 'Those were the Days' that does it for me!

I actually used to have a local called the Tavern, when I was a student.....