Songs which make you cry

We had' Dance with my father' at my father's funeral recently , so the next time I hear it, hope I'm alone Hankies at the ready!
'I'm nobody's child' brings a lump to my throat.

All of the above plus Harry Nillson Without You and Bread Everything I Own

One piece if music that sets me off is the theme to the film Schindler's List.

Oh, me too, Gaggi3, even though I hated the half hour of ruddy Mamma Mia that I saw before switching off. And so many of the others mentioned have me blubbing too.

dollyjo and hugs.

"Slipping through my Fingers", from "Mamma Mia", always makes me sad.

Thanks to everyone for sharing. For me it's classical and mostly orchestral pieces that open the floodgates these days. Also 'We have all the time in the world' (sob!) which I think was the last recording by Louis Armstrong.

Tallis 40 part motet, Procul Harem 'whiter shade of pale.' Simon and Garfunkel ' I am a rock'

A bit OTT I know but my partner used to sing Love Me Tender to our old cat. She used to go weak at the paws and roll on her back. Now that she's no longer with us I feel quite tearful when I hear it.

Dance With My Father is my no. 1 weepie. Mine died when I was 12, but I still remember him dancing with me in his arms. Also The Living Years, I Hope You'll Dance,and Boz Scaggs singing High Sierra. I love Fields Of Gold and Waterloo Sunset, but luckily they don't make me cry, though children singing almost anything do. Abide With Me reduces me to a quivering wreck.

Leonora47, I feel for you as the song that always makes me cry is in a similar context.
It is 'Softly as I leave you,'by Matt Monroe.
When I was 9yrs old and my brother was almost 2yrs old, my mother left my brother sleeping in his cot and walked away from him to take her own life.
I only have to hear 'Softly as I leave long before you wake' and I think of the dreadful state she must have been in as she left her sleeping child in his cot.
I am now in my 70's and my brother in his 60's but it still hurts. I'm crying now as I have never got over losing her.
Then Matt Monroe also took his own life. If both Matt Monroe and my Mum had only pulled through they would have been so very much loved.

The Ballard of Lucy Jordan does it for me, said a lot about my life when I first heard it

Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper - floods!!!

Time to say goodbye Sarah Brightman does it for me. beautiful and sad.

As a two-year old, I was fostered.
My mother visited me from time to time and, on her last visit, taught me to sing, " You are my Sunshine."

The last line, " Please don't take my Sunshine away from me." still makes me cry, because it gives me hope that she loved me at least a little bit.

I never saw her again.

Your song by Elton John and the rose by Bette middler

Johnny Mathis singing "When a Child is Born", always gets to me, but not for any specific reason, it just does.
Then there`s "Bright Eyes", by Art Garfunkel, it came on the radio the morning after my beloved 12 year old cat, Patch, died. It was back in 1981, but it still starts me off every time I hear it. By any other artist it doesn`t affect me, just Art Garfunkel.

Johnny Mathis singing "When a Child is Born", always gets to me, but not for any specific reason, it just does.
Then there`s "Bright Eyes", by Art Garfunkel, it came on the radio the morning after my beloved 12 year old cat, Patch, died. It was back in 1981, but it still starts me off every time I hear it. By any other artist it doesn`t affect me, just Art Garfunkel.

So many! - But for me, the ultimate tear-jerker probably has to be Eva Cassidy's "I know you by heart". (And any children singing "Away in a Manger".....)

Lara's theme from Dr. Zhivago, '' Somewhere my love'' has me dissolving into tears. And Richard Strauss ''Four last songs'' - I love them all equally, and that wonderful 'Variations of a theme of Thomas Tallis'' by vaughan Williams. Oh dear, could go on and on! May come back later.

Scarlet ribbons

17 by Janis Ian

Going back by Dusty

Excerpt from a teenage opera (Grocer Jack)

Waterloo sunset

....... and so many more!

Roberta Flack , The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face .....

The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics and Dance with my Father by Luther Van Dros as they both remind me of my Dad. Also anything from Les Miserables.

The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics and Dance with my Father by Luther Van Dros as they both remind me of my Dad. Also anything from Les Miserables.

Sorry I've just remembered Carly Simon singing "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - gorgeous and sad and and brings back some memories.

With a nod to forthcoming Remembrance Day, Bryn Terfel singing Arthur Somervell's "The lads in their hundreds". The words come from A Shropshire Lad and are very moving. There is a line "...and carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man..." which I always find very moving.