Puff the Magic Dragon makes me cry

Probably not. It doesn't do much for me though.Maybe it's a sad song and you are feeling very down?

It does for me too! I think I read that it was drug related though. I still see it as a sad friendly dragon!

I think the idea that the song contains references to drug-taking is an urban myth - the writers deny it, anyway, sayng it's simply about the loss of childhood innocence. It doesn't make me cry.

I feel very nostalgic about this song. Was it on the radio when we were little ? I was born in 1953 so perhaps it was popular in the 60's. It makes me feel a little weepy too, but I love it. My long deceased mother you to sing 'mona Lisa' ( Mona Lisa Mona Lisa they have named you) fist thing in the morning I used to feel like throwing something at her. A few years ago I heard it on the radio on my way to an important day at work and found myself sobbing driving up the motorway. I arrived all red eyed & snotty and had to explain why to a senior colleague I'd never met before. She was very kind though. I think music, songs & nursery rhymes can awaken long lost memories.

It used to make me sad. But not anymore. I'm a tough old boot these days.

Its Morningtown Ride for me - used to sing my grandson to sleep with that one and now he is to big for that.

I didn't even know the verses in question until relatively recently, so I don't think it's memories of the song that upset me. It's definitely something in those lyrics that sets me off.

My little grandchildren absolutely love the song, but every time I try to sing it with/for them, I get choked up on that bit!

I guess I need to man up, as the youngsters would say

When I was a child I used to really worry about Puff My mother used to sing Scarlet Ribbons. I heard it recently for the first time in years. It brought a tear to my eye.

When I visit mum in her nursing home I play compilation CDs I've made for her and we sing along to her favourites. I find some of them very hard to get through like, 'I Have Dreamed' from The King and I, 'Younger Than Springtime' from South Pacific and Matt Monro's 'On Days Like These'

I have a Kleenex at the ready and blame Hay fever.

Oh, merlot why did you mention 'Scarlet Ribbons'?

MamaCaz I recently started a similar thread when "You Raise Me Up" made me cry. I think music can stir something deep inside of us.

I had completely forgotten about "Morningtown Ride" - will have a listen now tissues at the ready!

... and that has led me on to "I'll Never Find Another You". Lucky I'm alone in the house at the moment!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqMZePE7SQk <sob>

That was me kitty

I used to sing this to my reception class. One little boy used to ask to be excused to stand in the cloakroom as it made him cry. (The song, not my singing - I think.)

I loved The Seekers. They are touring again, with the same line-up.

Well, Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris always brought the tears to my eyes. But not any more.

I don't think Puff made me cry, I just used to sing it very loudly. (I may still have an LP under the stairs!)

KatyK - the Real Seekers? I loved them!

Yes rose - the original line up. Judith Durham looks more or less the same. Unfortunately I have just looked at their website and the tour finished on 3 June. I tried to get DH to go but he wasn't having any of it. They have an up to date photo on their website if you want to take a peek.

Thanks KatyK.

Now I have Morningtown Ride on my mind! Must sing it to DGD2 tomorrow (or attempt to). Perhaps I will play it on Youtube for her instead.

My dad used to sing Scarlet Ribbons to me and I remember my mum singing Che Sera Sera. Happy memories that can make me well up. I tried Morningtown Ride out on one of my DGS recently - he wasn't too impressed.

DGD2 may enjoy it but will probably prefer something from Frozen or Sleeping Beauty (at least the Sleeping Beauty Waltz is an introduction to Tchaikowsky).

Oh, my two sing those songs from Frozen relentlessly...it's OK for the first few times, but...

Rosequartz I agree about 'Two little boys' but now it has been ruined for me and many others.

I always used to get my children to sleep singing Morningtown Ride to them [it's not sad BTW] it's cheerful. I also used to sing it to DGS1 when he stayed overnight with us, it's too babyish for him now [he says] he is 9 so I sing Lemon Tree [very pretty] and Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree[with anyone else but me] and also Yellow Bird [up high In Banana Tree] because he likes trees.
My teenage crush on Matt Monroe means I can't hear On Days Like These without a blush . It's a great song though, and the film The Italian Job opens with this song [ the mafia waiting to blow up the man in the sports car as he drives through the idyllic mountain roads.]