Friday Night Is Music Night: songs that make you cry

[wafter]

Lots of great suggestions; I love a lot of the older stuff as I think the extra dollop of nolstalgia adds poigniency and and self-reflection; ramping up the meloncholy an notch or two!

Usually the only stuff capable of moving me to tears is stuff I associate with dead mates.. this is about as close as any song gets me in isolation though:

 

[Davos87]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUFJJNQGwhk

The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home

Don't even get me started on the video...

That video. Much too close to home for me at the moment. Heart wrenching.....

 

[Davos87]

View: https://youtu.be/8mQyD1eSw0E

This will get you.

 

[Bazzer]

Oh, and this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPlyqsbCADo

 

[Davos87]

View: https://youtu.be/O51StLHCTrU


Billy twanging our heartstrings............for all dads.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

One Friday night I dumped someone out of the blue as I'd met another girl. She took it very badly and I felt like shite. The very next afternoon I was listening to Capital Radio when I heard this for the first time -

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es1uCh48TNY

Did I go on one serious and tearful guilt trip

It's a corker of a song

Dwight Yoakham wrote/recorded his own derivative of it, which is also damned fine!!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuULf-u6hgk

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

If you want saccharin-sweet, try Red Sovine………..

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iOiVh0kuaQ

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQOjxA8rrks

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

So sad a story, but wonderfully told by Dolly

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkAPjMNivfo



Pretty as an angel from the day that she was born
Skin as fair as Lily's hair, as golden as the corn
They knew that she was special from the moment she first cried
She was a mountain angel certified
She was her momma's baby, she was her daddy's pride
Good at home, at church and school, at everything she tried
Everybody's darlin' led a charmed and peaceful life
The perfect mountain angel 'til he arrived
And ohh, she fell so deeply
Ooh, she couldn't stop
She gave herself to him, milled it completely
He lifted her so high he let her drop

She gave up everything for him that mattered in her life
All the others that had loved her and she vowed to be his wife
She dreamed of bearing children in an ivy-covered house
The mountain angel's sunshine turned to clouds
The wicked handsome stranger left the way he came
Broke her heart and broke her mind
She never was the same
They say he was the devil
That had come to steal her soul
She never loved another it was told
They say she had a baby
Some say that it had died
They it's just as well
As it had been the devil's child
They say good conquers evil
But here, evil won the prize
So the mountain angel took to the wild

And ooh, she couldn't take it
Years passed and she had long since lost her mind
She waited for him as her beauty faded
Her parents died from grief before their time

She tried to gather pieces of her life, they wouldn't fit
Beside the tiny grave deep in the woods is where she'd sit
Talking to the child, herself, to him, who knew for sure
Possessed they say by satan's insane lure
High a'top the mountain, for years they say she's seen
Looking down upon the town where she had once been queen
She'd sneak around the playground, watch the little children play
They'd see the crazy lady then run away
They say she roamed these hills for years, wearing not a stitch
The lovely mountain angel now thought to be a witch
She made those wailing mournful sounds
That you could hear for miles
Long after she laid down upon her baby's grave and died

And ooh, her ghost is callin'
She's waiting for the ones that she adored
Through spring and summer, fall when snow is fallin'
Her spirit roams these hills forever more
The mountain angel's voices ever more

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

And Dolly again, with the magnificent story of her childhood

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lBDk81FodY


Back through the years
I go wonderin' once again
Back to the seasons of my youth
I recall a box of rags that someone gave us
And how my momma put the rags to use
There were rags of many colors
Every piece was small
And I didn't have a coat
And it was way down in the fall
Momma sewed the rags together
Sewin' every piece with love
She made my coat of many colors
That I was so proud of
As she sewed, she told a story
From the bible, she had read
About a coat of many colors
Joseph wore and then she said
Perhaps this coat will bring you
Good luck and happiness
And I just couldn't wait to wear it
And momma blessed it with a kiss

My coat of many colors
That my momma made for me
Made only from rags
But I wore it so proudly
Although we had no money
I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me

So with patches on my britches
Holes in both my shoes
In my coat of many colors
I hurried off to school
Just to find the others laughing
And making fun of me
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me

And oh I couldn't understand it
For I felt I was rich
And I told them of the love
My momma sewed in every stitch
And I told 'em all the story
Momma told me while she sewed
And how my coat of many colors
Was worth more than all their clothes

But they didn't understand it
And I tried to make them see
That one is only poor
Only if they choose to be
Now I know we had no money
But I was rich as I could be
In my coat of many colors
My momma made for me
Made just for me


How wonderful, all the philanthropic gifts that she's given the area she grew up in

Scholarships, awards, grants. etc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollywood_Foundation

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Absolutely wonderful

Longing, memories, the desire for all to stay the same

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9IUj1mDENg

My eyes are feeling 'prickly' as I watch this........................

And you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Up the street beside that red neon light,
That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night.
He was the tender and I ordered a beer,
It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here.

But you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss.
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist.
Over there is where I bought my first car.
It turned over once but then it never went far.

And I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa.
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall.
I bring them flowers about every day,
but I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say.

If they could see how the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly.
But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes.
I'm leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go.
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul.

But I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye,
But I'll hold to my lover,
'Cause my heart's 'bout to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town.
I can see the sun has gone down on my town, on my town,
Goodnight.
Goodnight.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

As much as I like Jim Reeves original, this is good!!
And as for the 2 last verses...........'shiver in the spine' (with her voice too)


Dan get up your ornery cuss or you'll be the death of us
I'm so weary but I'll help you if I can
All right Dan perhaps it's best that we'll just stop awhile and rest
For it's still a hundred yards to Mary Anne it's still a hundred yards to Mary Anne

Late that night the storm was gone and they found him there at dawn
He had made it but he couldn't leave ol' Dan
Yes they found him there on the plains his hands froze to the reins
He was just a hundred yards from Mary Anne

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEyLj-Gf8Ng

 

[Yellow Fang]

It doesn't really make me cry, but it would do if I was more sensitive.

 

[iateyoubutler]

This

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X79Jko9bBI


This

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Ro7baEa6w


And this

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0cPnOilHs


A few for starters

 

[postman]

View: https://youtu.be/6ElC4UwYVuA