Songs which make you cry

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

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.
youtu.be/q_efac2Ajkc
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?

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!

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.

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!

Honey is guaranteed to make me cry :-(

It's Dance with my father for me too. My lovely dad was badly hurt during the war, yet her would swirl me round the lounge when some music came on the radio.

My dad was a Glenn Campbell fan when I was a child and he used to play a particular song that always had me in floods of tears. I believe it was written by Sony Bono but I much prefer this version.

I was always afraid that one day he might sit my sister and I down and say the exact same thing. It still makes me cry today.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRSsbw1951s

Quite a lot.

Anything bagpipes (as long as played properly) because my father who was not a great Dad but was a brilliant piper.

Bui-Doi from Miss Saigon because it is so true

Ebony Eyes by the Everley Brothers because it is so emotional

I don't want to think about any more as I am feeling sad and have enough sadness in my life right now.

I find Zadok the Priest very emotive

Also some 'pop' songs that bring back memories of unrequited teenage love -

Halfway to paradise and Last night was made for love but where were you - both by Billy Fury
When you walk in the room - The Searchers
Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes

Just remembered the first time I was moved to tears by 'Away in a Manger' - my first Christmas teaching, Camberwell, 1960, caught unawares by reception class in the Nativity play.
Since a grandson was a choirboy, then in time grew out of it, the King's College Carol Service has touched me even more than before.

Lots of songs make me cry, sometimes, - but the one which always does, because it brings back such overwhelming memories is Brian Adams
"Everything I do, I do it for You."... gulp...

Jomarie Yes Catch the Wind is another one - it was played at my sister-in-law's funeral

Anniebach Not Sospan Fach then?
Which I can still remember from Welsh lessons during two years in Cardiff in the 1970s .

I think it's interesting that some of us are moved by music and some by the lyrics. Lyrics are my thing but DH's preference is the music - preferably (very!) modern jazz which I can appreciate but I need a story!

On your point, Jane, we are trying to get some group singing for dementia sufferers started in the library. I notice if there is music and singing going on when I visit mum most of the residents join in automatically. There are of course the one or two who yell 'Shut the f**k up!'

It's interesting that so many of us have a deep emotional attachment to music. I read that music is being actively used with dementia patients to calm them and improve cognitive function by using personal
Playlists of music that patients have loved all their lives, so perhaps these songs will help us in years to come!
Another one - Kathy's song, Simon and Garfunkel.
And Smile, Nat King Cole. My American DGD sang this to me in perfect tune at the age of two and I was in tears at the end. I do miss her.

James Blunt's "Goodbye My Lover".

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVyggTKDcOE

Still reduces me to tears just thinking about it.

Lots of country music but especially Hurt by Johnny Cash, Little Sparrow by Dolly Parton and I wasn't expecting that as mentioned on another thread.

I'll be back later with more.

I like a lot of the ones already mentioned, and also

From a Distance Bette Midler
Beautiful Boy John Lennon
Vincent Don McClean
The Lark Ascending Vaughan Williams
Going Back Dusty Springfield
Blackbird Paul McCartney
Macarthur Park Richard Harris
I think it's going to rain today Jack Jones
Empty Chairs and Empty Tables Les Miserables
It was a very good year Frank Sinatra
Easy Terms Blood Brothers

..... and dozens more

Just about anything played by a pipe band, "Highland Cathedral"," the Flo'ers o' the Forest" in particular. Mozart's Requiem, Ave Maria. Most of the anthems preceding World Cup/six nations matches, "away in a manger" sung by tiny children and apparently when I was a child, "O mein Papa" would have me in floods of tears!!

Nelliemoser , it is a magical song, been the lullaby in my family for five generations ,

That is beautiful....

I have many songs which make me cry or at the least have a lump in my throat but just the thought of "I'll take you home again Kathleen" let alone the singing of it does it for me. 'Catch the wind' by Donovan is another one (played at my little sister's funeral) - there are loads. Just a sentimental old fool, that's me.

This is another one! Bizet's Carmen with Placido Domingo.

It is essentially the exact same story line as in Myfanwy.
unrequited love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHnl29pnSuc

More tissues.

For all you Welsh male voice choir fans cop this. It's what jerks my tears every time

Myfanwy, every time.

These are the English words but it really needs to be sung in Welsh.

Get your tissues ready.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsJmLHpJ2lI

Why so the anger, Oh Myfanwy,
That fills your [hollow] darkened eyes?
Your gentle cheek now, Oh Myfanwy,
No longer blush beholding me?
Where now, the smile that shone your beauty
Which fuelled this fool's devoted love?
Where now the sound, of your sweet utterance,
That left my heart behind you, in your wake?

What have I done now, Oh Myfanwy,
To earn the scald of your sweet burning cheek?
Was it sport for you now, Oh Myfanwy,
This poet's burning flame for you?
You belong to me, through rightful promise,
Too much for you to keep your word?
I long no more, your hand, Myfanwy,
Unless it offers too your heart.

Myfanwy, may your life entire
Bathe in the midday sunshine's glow,
And on your cheeks, may blushing roses
Dance to your health a hundred years.
I free you from your words of promise
Made to the one who loved you well,
Give me your hand, my sweet Myfanwy,
But one last time, to say "farewell".

I looked up "Always There" Galen - a lovely song.