Songs which make you cry

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

"Everything I Own" by Bread. Have always loved this song but since my mum died three months ago, find it impossible to listen to without weeping.

It's just the tunes that get me feeilng emotional not the words at all.

Ave Marie every time

For the Good Times still makes me cry after being divorced for 31 years. So does Slipping through my Fingers (and if you go way back, The Special Years)
About 3 months ago a busker in Durham who was also a good guitar player, sang Mr Tambourine Man and I cried for what is long gone.

" Abide With Me" and "Danny Boy" always bring a lump to my throat and a tear to my eye.... so do some Christmas carols. My dad passed away two days before Christmas 1993 and the evening before he died he played a new cd of carols he`d got as he wanted to get into the festive mood as he wrapped the presents he`d bought for his new great grandson... I still find it hard to hear O Come All Ye Faithful ...

Vincent by Don McClean always sets me off and anything by a Welsh Male Voice choir. (I'm a Welsh exile) and, of course, the Welsh National Anthem at the start of the rugby

Just thought of a few more - Mary Hopkin singing Those were the days and Charles Aznavour singing La Boheme, which are both on the theme of good times long gone. Faure's Requiem I Paradisum never fails to make me weep because it's so beautiful. I would like it played at my funeral (not too soon, I hope!)

tears in heaven fanstastic

Scarlet Ribbons by Jim Reeves or Val Doonican comes to mind immediately because my Dad sang it to me as a little girl. So many others too though and it can depend on my mood.

Thanks everyone for reminding me of so much music I have loved - even Billy Fury, my first 'pash' !

So much music resorts me to tears but 4 Last Songs by Strauss, O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen and In the Bleak Mid Winter take top places. I couldn't listen to any of my favourite music for at least 2 years after DH died; I was a complete mess if I did.

Oh yes graninthemist Boz Scaggs High Sierra always has me in floods of tears too. I have it marked as my funeral song. The words are so beautiful.

Get your hankies out.

This is a song that Mindy Smith wrote after her mother died. If you don't know Mindy Smith, you have a treat in store............
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu3Ihyq50c

Her other really wonderful song is Angel Doves.

Bridge over troubled waters. For my funeral

Yep Living Years Mike n the Mechanics. Can't say any more

Almost anything by Karen carpenter, Whitney Huston , love letters straight from my heart can't remember her name but beautiful voice x

In my secret life by Leonard Cohen and In dreams by Roy Orbison and Piano Man by Billy Joel make me feel tearful!

So much music moves me to tears. Children singing especially. I heard a version of Panis Angelicus with a children's choir and Russell Watson which had me in bits a few years ago. In fact he gives me goosebumps just listening to his voice, never mind what he sings!

downtoearth walking through town the other day I heard 'Fields of Gold' and disintegrated when I saw the music was coming from a charity stall for childhood cancer.

loopylou I had Eva Cassidy's 'Somewhere over the Rainbow' down for my funeral but in May listened to it during a good friend's funeral and I honestly don't know how I held it together!

It seems so many of us have music which brings back memories of our dads. Mine is 'Wishing you were somehow here again' from Phantom of the Opera. I'm crying now.

I like the Harry Belafonte version of Scarlet Ribbons and how could I have firgotten Sometimes when we touch!