What's your #1 cry-like-a-baby song?

[Bossy Monkey]

Mine is "Valentine's Day" by Steve Earle. For personal reasons that may become obvious when you read the lyrics, I've been known to bawl like a baby while hollering this song at top volume.

Do admins a favor and don't print lyrics here as it's a copyright infringement and could get DU in trouble. Instead, try linking, like this: http://www.steveearle.net/lyrics/ly-ifeel.php#ValentinesDay

Yours?

[steve2470]

1. I don't want to miss a thing - Aerosmith

I don't cry any more when I hear it. I finally got over the old girlfriend.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/a/aerosmith/4490.html

[Left Is Write]

2. I can't really think of one.

Maybe something someone says here will trigger a response for me.

[KyndCulture]

3. Mad world....

[GalleryGod]

4. Oldie and Corny, for a guy...BUT, Theme from Brian's Song.

33 years now...I still tear up!:cry:

[B Calm]

5. Teddy Bear / Red Sovine Breaker one nine is anyone there?

Come on truckers talk to Teddy Bear.

[TNDemo]

6. If I Could.

I know it by Regina Belle but apparently Celine Dion has done it.

http://www.letrascanciones.org/celine-dion/miracle/if-i-could.php

[kiraboo]

30. Also done by Ray Charles. Fantastic song n/t

[derby378]

7. TIME - The Alan Parsons Project

[SamanthaJones]

8. Hail to the Chief

Gets me every time.:cry:

[ret5hd]

9. The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues...

about the battle of galipoli, an australian battle of WWI, an utter and complete debacle ( the troops landed on a beach head, were supposed to attain a goal by 7 days, were still on the beach head 7 months later)

it reminds me of this fruitless war we are in now.

[GalleryGod]

11. A young Mel Gibson was in the movie!

Excellent Anti-War movie!

[ret5hd]

13. i've never seen it...what is the name?

[Bossy Monkey]

16. Gallipoli n/t

[regnaD kciN]

23. Gallipoli

The song isn't in the film, by the way.

And others have complained that the (Australian) film plays fast and loose with the facts to make it seem as if the British high command consciously chose to send thousands of Aussie troops to certain death so that their own British soldiers could land without risk. In fact, the operation was a total SNAFU that did not discriminate based on nationality -- all forces involved sustained horrific casualties.

[regnaD kciN]

17. Actually written by Eric Bogle...

...it's pretty much a folk-song classic. He also wrote No Man's Land, about a Scottish victim of WWI.

[GalleryGod]

10. BTW: Steve rocks!

Saw him at Philly's Electric Factory in October!:yourock: WoW!
My wife's a big fan..I of course was a Newbie!:shrug:

[Cooley Hurd]

12. "Shiny Happy People" by REM

It makes me cry to think this is the same band who made Life's Rich Pagaent...

Alhough any song with Kate Pierson is great, IMHO...

[FARAFIELD]

14. ONLY A DREAM by Mary-Chapin Carpenter

[Freebird12004]

15. Beautiful Goodbye by Jennifer Hanson

I haven't stopped crying, yet. Something tells me ~ this time the tears aren't ever going be totally gone.

[Ladyhawk]

18. Lately? "This Is Not America" by David Bowie. n/t

[nytemare]

20. Is that a newer song from him?

I might have to check that out.

[Bossy Monkey]

21. 20 years old, with the Pat Metheny Group

Lyrics here: http://www.top40db.org/Songs/ID_85190.shtml

[nytemare]

22. Thank you!

:)

[regnaD kciN]

25. Not a bad song...

...but any wished-for political reading of it must be balanced against the fact that it was written for a motion picture, The Falcon and the Snowman, about a couple of college kids who become KGB spies.

[Ladyhawk]

37. Oh, I understand it was written for a movie.

But the lyrics seem to make sense for these times. Just my opinion.

[Ladyhawk]

36. Nope, it's an oldie from a movie. PM me for details. :) n/t

[Hissyspit]

44. "Falcon and the Snowman" w/ Sean Penn

[nytemare]

19. "Traveling Soldier" ~Dixie Chicks

That song gets me every time I hear it.

[Bzzzz]

24. Love that song...

and 'Godspeed(Sweet Dreams)'...everytime I hear it, I think of my little 1 year old grandson. I hope to sing and record it for him. He's my little man. :) I surprised my daughter on her wedding day and sang 'Where Are You Going, My Little One, Little One' and everyone was bawling when she walked into the room. I've always been partial to that song, since I was a little girl and my Mom sang it to me.

[nytemare]

34. How sweet!

I am going to have to do "Travelin' Soldier" next time I do karaoke.
"Angel" by Sarah Mclachlan is another sad one.

[July]

27. One of very few songs that gets to me. nt

[nytemare]

35. This one gets me about every time, too.

Maybe because I was in the Army, I dunno. :shrug:

[Maine Mary]

26. Almost gave you Don McClean, but due to current circumstances I chose...

SUZANNE VEGA

Don McClean's "American Pie" makes me cry for what was, but Vega makes me cry for what is.

"Tired Of Sleeping"

Oh Mom, the dreams are not so bad
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping

Oh Mom, the old man is telling me something
His eyes are wide and his mouth is thin
And I just can't hear what he's saying

Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping

Oh Mom, the kids are playing in pennies
They're up to their knees in money
In the dirt of the churchyard steps

Oh Mom, that man he ripped out his lining
He tore out a piece of his body
To show us his "clean quilted heart"

Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping

Oh Mom, the bird on the string is hanging
Her bones are twisting and dancing
She's fighting for her small life

Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping

Oh Mom, I wonder when I'll be waking
It's just that there's so much to do
And I'm tired of sleeping

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/suzannevega/tiredofsleeping.html

I'm just emerging from the worst Depression of my life. Either she, or whoever writes her songs has been to the same depths of hell as I have. Here is another...


"Solitude Standing"

Solitude stands by the window
She turns her head as I walk in the room
I can see by her eyes she's been waiting
Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we've met

And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
And she says "I've come to lighten this dark heart"
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

I turn to the crowd as they're watching
They're sitting all together in the dark in the warm
I wanted to be in there among them
I see how their eyes are gathered into one

And then she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
And she says"l've come to lighten this dark heart"
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we've met

And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/suzannevega/solitudestanding.html

[Jessica]

28. Get Together - The Youngbloods

Chokes me up everytime.

Love is but the song we sing,
And fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Know the dove is on the wing
And you need not know why

C'mon people now,
Smile on your brother
Ev'rybody get together
Try and love one another right now

[Bossy Monkey]

32. Actually, this has always been one of my top grin-like-an-idiot numbers

though there may be a little tear in there, too.:)

[Merope215]

29. "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

because it's so hopeful, and nothing changed.

[Elidor]

31. Probably Aaron Neville's Ave Maria

Beautiful. A good rendition of the 1812 Overture can usually bring tears as well.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. Abraham, Martin and John, which just came on the radio

as we type

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

40. That's mine too

Also get sad at Toto's "I Won't Hold You Back" because it was out at the time my dad died, and I always associate it with that time in my life.

[benny05]

38. Traditional USA and then some others

I know most of you may think these are freeper songs now, but I don't. I think they are just good songs, if sung with appropriateness:

1) Over the Rainbow, sung by Judy Garland (in the Wizard of Oz and in 1962)

2) Star Spangled Banner, if not sung Roseanne Barr.. (I still cry if the tenor is right to remember all of us, and not just freeper types) and Whitney did a good job at 2002 Super Bowl (sorry she went all to heck after hat)

3) America, the Beautiful (by Ray Charles or Willie Nelson)

4) God Bless America (I sung this in grade school)..."from the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, white with foam"...

5)Stars and Stripes Forever (done after the 1812 overture (T) at the Boston Pops 4th of July celebration on the Chas River)

[sakabatou]

39. Only Time by Enya

[Magrittes Pipe]

41. "Cry like a Baby" by the Box Tops.

:shrug:

[guinivere]

42. Over The Rainbow by Judy Garland

and Angel by Sarah McL:cry:

[Hissyspit]

43. "Don't Worry Baby" by The Beach Boys

...except for the whole dumb car-race thing, but I don't think Brian was really writing about car racing, anyway.

[elshiva]

45. Go by the Indigo Girls

[AmandaRuth]

46. "See How We Are" X n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

49. That's one of my screaming cold fury numbers, along with their

"Country At War," and pretty much the rest of their songbook. Kudos for mentioning X, though!

[Theres-a]

50. YES! And 4th of July by X makes me cry,too

[babylonsister]

47. Righteous Brothers, "Uchained Melody" has

inspired memories. And I will be checking out VDay and Steve Earle.

[WindRavenX]

48. #1? "Such Great Heights" (Iron and Wine version)

If I even hear the opening rift, I lose it. Hard core. :cry:
Other mentions:
-"All I Want Is You" U2
-"Green Eyes" Coldplay
-"Downbound Train" Springsteen

[Theres-a]

51. Imagine.Eva's version