'Wet Eye' Songs

[Richard A Thackeray]

Those that, for some reason, 'bring that speck of dust into your eyes', & make them moist....
Y'know, that same reaction that you get in 'The Railway Children', when Jenny Agutter (as Bobbi) runs down the platform, shouting "Daddy!, My Daddy!
(I bet it's not just me that scene gets that reaction from!?)

I was out in the car this morning, & my first 3 additions were played via 'Spotify'

Same old boy, same sweet girl
Five years down the road
There's gonna be a little one and she
Says, "It's time to go"
Doctor says, "The baby's fine
But you'll have to leave
'Cause his momma's fadin' fast" and
Johnny hit his knees
And there he prayed
Take the very breath you gave me
Take the heart from my chest
I'll gladly take her place if you'll let me
Make this my last request
Take me out of this world
God, please, don't take the girl


Tim McGraw
Don't Take The Girl

View: https://youtu.be/-vn6QdqxK3g?si=CwEwnMNagNsx1Q0O

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

His attempt, at writing something to equal George Jones He Stopped Loving Her Today

Sissy Thompson said she'd seen him
Late that night on Shelby Road
About a mile from there they found him
Seems he died out in the snow
I hear'd the preacher at the service
Say from love he's finally free
But I say love it knows no season
It haunts the soul eternally


Dwight Yoakam
Johnsons Love


View: https://youtu.be/I8Z_UVy_2HQ?si=y6-B1-P76ul9D15S

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The film is a big factor in it for me


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

Iris Dement
Our Town


View: https://youtu.be/b9IUj1mDENg?si=ZVH83qD9Q0EHNink

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Hits hard, have a listen

Jumbo Johnson banks the plane,
Goes in low and drops his payload,
Turns to join the pack again.
And people are dying there beneath the bomber's moon,
The city's a raging hell beneath the bomber's moon,
And the planes head out towards the northern sea:
Young men coming home from victory

Over Belgium came the fighters,
Flying high against the night;
Curly Thompson saw them coming,
Closing in before he died.
And the young men shot them down beneath the bomber's moon,
Shot them down in flames beneath the bomber's moon;
Young men sending young men to their graves
Saw them down into the North Sea waves.


Mike Harding
Bombers Moon


View: https://youtu.be/U0AfwsMDd44?si=ueHQFKCn0YvQ3ZMa

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

The first time l heard this, & it got to these lines, it felt like the hair on my arms stood on end

One Friday night
At a football game
The Lord's Prayer said
And the Anthem sang,
A man said,
"Folks, would you bow your heads,
For a list of local Vietnam dead.”

Cryin' all alone
Under the stands
Was a piccolo player
In the marchin' band
One name read and
Nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl
With a bow in her hair.

Dixie Chicks
Travellin Soldier



View: https://youtu.be/AbfgxznPmZM?si=Sq6P1Bi5YtuKraQi

 

[Drago]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt7zM1BrU&list=RDeVxt7zM1BrU&index=3&pp=8AUB

 

[I like Skol]

Cats in the cradle. Thread can be closed now.

 

[raleighnut]

Never Any Good- Martin Simpson

I'd post a link if I could but 'ho hum'

If you've never heard the song (or of Martin Simpson) give it a listen

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I guess Red Sovine had a bit of a monopoly on these?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

From the excellent CD shown

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


Dolly Parton
Mountain Angel


View: https://youtu.be/iR5UfWi-jsE?feature=shared

 

[markemark]

Anything by Coldplay brings tears to my eyes…mostly because I’m trying to saw my ears off.

 

[PeteXXX]

Almost anything by Nick Drake..

 

[Gunk]

This always brings a tear to my eye


View: https://youtu.be/Jl5vi9ir49g?si=jHguElZd2MiGZPbV

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not wet eyes, but certainly a bit of a shiver towards the end
(as excellent as the Jim Reeves original is, I prefer this)

Camera Obscura
The Blizzard


View: https://youtu.be/pEyLj-Gf8Ng?si=ZpeSwaMmwZIJZr1Y

 

[Pinno718]

I started to write a C&W song with the opening lyric "It's been kinda lonesome in the saddle since my horse died" but i'm struggling to finish it off.