Songs which make you cry

Honey is guaranteed to make me cry :-(

We turned on the tv on Christmas day as a young solo choirboy in a huge cathedral sang Once in Royal Davids City, and I wept buckets.
Was all of a dither after that- nearly burned the turkey!

I go through phases - sometimes I remain entirely unaffected, and then in the (right?) phase even TV ads will have me welling up!

Toni Braxton's Unbreak my Heart always does it to me.

When I was a child I used to get upset hearing Puff The Magic Dragon because I thought it was so sad, years later it can still reduce me to tears as proven when I went to listen to a children's chior last year & this was one of the songs they sang- I had to pretend I had a cold!

Came across this by accident the other day - Annie Lennox singing 'Every time we say goodbye' so movingly. I defy anyone to read what it's about and listen without blubbing - I cried buckets.
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By the way if I ever attend a church service I cannot get past the start of the second verse of the first hymn without bursting into tears. I know what it's about (it dates from 4 yrs old) - does anyone else have a 'place marker' response like this that is independent of the music itself?

I once conducted a choir of 250 singing You Raise me Up - not a dry eye in the house!

Everthing I Own written by David Gates from Bread for his late father. Listening to the lovely words reminds me of everyone I have loved and lost, and sweet memories.

Leo Sayer 'when I need you'. It was a hit when my father was dying and I had a new born baby. I cry at the thought of it. I have told the children to play it at my funeral. They don't know why.

I said I'd be back.

Celine Dion singing the Titanic song I can't stand her!

I will always love you by Dolly Parton - Whitney Huston is ok but I prefer Dolly!

And loads of stuff by Kris Kristofferson, oh, and June Carter.

Check out Dillie Keane's 'Look Mummy, No Hands'. Have seen it performed live at Fascinating Aida live shows. Very emotional and strikes many chords.

I too am moved by so many songs but three times as much, perhaps, because I have been trilingual since childhood. Two that really set me off are both by the French-Italian singer/actor, Serge Reggiani. One is sung in both French( L'Italien)) and Italian( Il Francese). It tells the story of an immigrany who left his native land as a youth, returns as a successful man but finds no one there to welcome him back. It does sum up so much. The other, "A ma fille" ( to my daughter) is a poignant taking leave of a daughter " whose heart has changed country". Listen if you are interested. So beautiful. Please forgive my long post. This is my first!

"immigrant"-- sorry!

NOT Space Oddity for sure- listen to Ashes to Ashes- Major Tom was a junkie imagining it all. That should cure you from now on.

With me it's Danny Boy- I have 2 sons & 4 grandsons. uckily you don't hear this very often or I'd be a soggy mess.

Also years ago a Shredded Wheat advert on TV did it every time- 'When they're up to Shredded Wheat, they're growing up'. My boys were about 7 & 10 & I was feeling it.

Theme from ET gets me going too. I cried all the way home from the cinema when I first saw the film.

I think a good cry does you good sometimes.

For me, these are the worst offenders:

Puff the Magic Dragon

Seasons in the Sun, by Terry Jacks

Those were the Days, by Mary Hopkins

None of them affected me when I was younger, so I guess that in my case a large part of it is a nostalgia thing.

I have tears in my eyes now just from thinking about them. Actually, maybe I should do this more often, as it has provided instant relief from my persistent dry eyes problem!

Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) singing "Songbird".
Jesse Norman singing the Leibstodt from Tristan and Isolde.
May Morning Dew by the Cheiftains.

'Will you love me tomorrow?' and many more!

The song "the rose. "always sets me off.It was sung unaccompanied by my wonderfull friend Eirlys ,at my sisters funeral.Over her final months she had been telling various people that Eirlys would be singing this at her funeral.We had hoped it would never happen,sadly it did,and there wasn't a dry eye after her rendition of the Bette Midler song.Also Shane Wards version of "Over the Rainbow " !

I also think Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" is very sad.

I had Radio 2 on in the background this morning while I was decorating and Ken Bruce played Gilbert O Sullivan's 'Alone Again, Naturally'

That did it! The memories came flooding back. My father had just died, we moved to Suffolk from the Isle of Wight and I was missing my family and friends, DH was working long hours and I was living in the middle of nowhere with two children under two.

I did love Suffolk though

Songs which tear at my heart strings are usually classical and choral, so Allegri's Miserere, Verdi's Requiem - which I play at full volume in the car and Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. Plus a lot of the 'old' hymns, not the new happy clappy ones!

Me & Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin's version - popular when my first marriage was breaking up, and I played it all the time (freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...)

That's one for the lyrics - in terms of music alone I'm reduced to tears by opera - La Traviata - Butterfly - The Valkyrie...

"Little Things Mean a Lot" from the AXA advert, every time the advert comes on always makes me cry! I feel quite emotional. Doesn't normally happen with music, films are different!

My husband of 41 years passed away in September 7 years ago and EVERY shop I went in that Christmas was playing 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' and I still turn it off now. Lost count of how many shops I walked out of

Kathleen Ferrier's glorious version of,"What is life to me without thee" and Maddy Prior's,"Somewhere along the road"-both ideal for funerals so maybe that's why the tears.

"O Mein Papa" for my beloved Dad, the original German says "was a wonderful clown"- so appropriate
Not however,"Smoke gets in your eyes" which stoopid Auntie had played at Uncle's funeral in the Crem,"because he asked us to play it" He was joking: as you may guess, he was Dad's clown brother!

Keep weeping girls,"the more you cry the less you wee" or so Gran reckoned!

Yes, I can relate to that, which is why I make a point of never listening to music when I feel down, as it makes it worse.