Songs that make the tears flow

A modern hymn called "On eagle's wings" which I heard for the first time in 1989 in Canada at my father's funeral. He had been a Lancaster bomber pilot in 1944.
I chose this hymn for my brother's funeral as he had been a keen private pilot for many years.

Green Fields of France or The band played Waltzing Matilda are two Remembrance Day anthems that can make me teary.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM
www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/RumSodomy/Waltzing.html

O mio bambinno caro (sometimes) Away in a Manger - sung by 5 year olds or younger (always these days)

Babbino

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight

anya I want it played at my funeral too. Hopefully not for a good few years yet

Seasons in the Sun, sung by Terry Jacks. Just thinking about it sets me off, worse than ever now that my dad is terminally ill. Strangely, I thought of it as a feel good song when it was first a hit!
The Living Years reduces me to tears too.

I want Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin at my funeral.

I love Seasons in the Sun too MamaCaz and Honey by Bobby Goldsboro .

.....and honey I miss you, and I'm being good
And I'd love to be with you, if only I could.......

My dad has asked for "Roll me up and smoke me when I die" by Willie Nelson to be played at his funeral Wobblybits he's always had a strange sense of humour .

Have just returned home from the 25th anniversary screening of Miss Saigon and yet again wept buckets at Bui Doi - The Dust of Life about the children 'left behind' by the American GIs.
All the more poignant as I clearly remember news reports from the 70's and the many people who wanted to adopt from Vietnam just as we were going through the adoption process for my own girls.

WB I was listening to Desert Island Discs on my way to the shops on Friday and the castaway had Stairway to Heaven as one of his choices. There was me singing away as I negotiated the roundabout. A great song.

The way we where Barbra Streisand and fields of gold Eva cassidy..played at my daughters funeral....The way we where is nostalgic for the times when my husband and children and I where all together...

'Song for Athene' by John Taverner It was played as Princess Diana's coffin was being carried out. Such a haunting and moving piece of music! Makes me weepy every time I hear it.

Also 'Finlandia' played at my father's funeral.

I never used to be so emotional, but I find as I get older that I weep much more easily than in the past. There are many songs that can bring a tear to my eye, but usually when I'm caught unawares - or at certain times of the year that mark anniversaries etc. And there are some songs now that I no longer choose to listen to because they always reduce me to a wreck. Dance with my father is one of those songs, but also there are quite a few songs that are associated with unhappy times in the past that trigger an emotional response in me.

I like a lot of the songs already mentioned, particularly When I was your man and Softly.

Other favourites are: Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell), Bedshaped (Keane - even though I'm not quite sure what the lyrics mean), Fast Car (Tracey Chapman), The Water Sustains Me (Johnny Flynn & Laura Marling), Beautiful Boy (John Lennon), Blackbird (Paul McCartney), Cat's in the Cradle (Harry Chapin)

'Dedicated to the One I Love' by the Mammas and Papas To a lost love!!!

When You Are Old by Gretchen Peters

Also....Someone Like You by Adele

But sometimes just any song that brings back memories, both happy and sad and particularly from the 70s, and I'm teary!

Softly I will leave you - Matt Monroe, When you come to a storm, It's a beautiful world.

Always on my Mind - Elvis Pressley ( was played at husbands funeral)

Ye Banks and Braes.
(I tug to my homeland and the departed)

Dance with my father

Silent Night

Ave Maria

Barcelona - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe
Without You - Harry Nilsson
Dedicated to the One I Love - Mamas and Papas
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves - from Verdi's Nabucco

The last one was my mother's favourite and we had it played as the coffin was carried in for her funeral. The pallbearers started swaying in time with the beat and so did the coffin. I was sure it was going to fall

Oh mein Papa by Eddie Calvert. I don't know how to add the link, but I just listened to it on YouTube and it had me in tears yet again !

Forever Autumn by Justin Haywood always brings a tear to my eye

sorry meant Justin Hayward, not Haywood