Puff the Magic Dragon makes me cry

hilda "Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning .." is the first line of "Slipping Through My Fingers".

Oh yes, but it can also make them want to grow their hair when their Mum wants them to have a nice, neat bob!

Actually I enjoyed it very much when I went with DGD1 and her other Granny.

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It is one way of persuading DGD2 to keep her hair in a neat plait - 'are you Anna today?'

Yes, don't they just love the songs from Frozen...(my GDs even do the speaking bits as well). I haven't seen the film and don't really think I'll ever want to now!

Who mentioned Morningtown Ride by the Seekers I haven't been able to get it out of my head since I read about it on here! Found it on Youtube, played it and sang it to DGD2 but not sure how impressed she was - she asked if we could look for Frozen on the computer please when I finished.

What's that Abba song which begins, "schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning, that always makes me weep. Sunrise, sunset does it for me too. I phoned my pen pal who was visiting from NZ. I was in Cumbria, she was in London. The phone box needed 4d. It was handy being just opposite our house. We never got to meet. I wonder where she is now. I've no idea how to find out.

'Honey' definitely has that effect on me!

As does 'Grandad'.

Oh dear, better get off the thread.

Oooh! Sorry.

It's OK jngl
I feel like that about a lot of the songs on this thread, but wouldn't have gone so far as to actually say so...

Tell Laura I Love Her by Ricky Valance and Terry by Twinkle used to make me blubb when I was a teenager. They wouldn't now though.

sorry Ana.

I hate that sodding song!

[fingerdownthroat]

Whilst 'Seasons in the Sun' leaves me cold, if 'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro comes on the radio I just can't stop my eyes from welling up when he gets to the bit

'One day when I was not at home
While she was there and all alone,
The angels came...'

Silly, I know, because it's such a mawkish song!

Oh yes, 'Seasons in the Sun' is so sad.

AlieOxon: "Those were the days" does it for me too! Now that you've reminded me of it, I think it is the most recent song that had me blubbing when I was driving the car one day!

Merlotgran: Yes, some Gilbert O'Sullivan songs can get me now.

Another that gets me is "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks..

I love Puff,Scarlet Ribbons and lots of songs my mum used to sing but particularly Moon River.

for Fairydoll2030

Sigh!

We had a phone for a couple of years from 1962 because we lived in a Working Men's Club. It lived in its own little enclosed booth in the club entrance and I can only remember it ringing once, when someone was letting my mum know that her brother had died. We all gathered round and stared at it for ages in alarm before my dad eventually stepped up to answer it. We never rang anyone because we didn't know anybody else with a phone!

Oh yes! I love that one too. So sad.

The Shadow Of Your Smile ( think recorded by various artists). It was the theme tune to The Sandpiper, a lovely but sad film with Richard Burton and Liz Taylor from the 60's. Ah, brings back so many memories for me....

Theme tune to champion the wonder horse

I feel even older now as I was well past 20 (but not yet 30).

We had to make arrangements for nights out in advance, no changing them at the last minute.

I had one friend who had a telephone - the rest of us had to use public ones. The complications trying to arrange a night out! We would each have to phone her, she would tell us what everyone else had suggested, we would tell her what we thought and then we would all have to phone again to see what the final decision was. All this depended on finding a phone that worked of course

sorry childhood