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What songs make you cry?

Fess up, all you macho dudes & dudettes. Certain songs and music can turn on your waterworks. Here's some that seldom fail to make me mist-up...

-The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Peter, Paul & Mary)
-Sounds of Silence (S&G, non-rock version)
-Born to the Breed (Judy Collins)
-Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
-Sparrow (Simon & Garfunkle again)
Not a song, but what the heck: the "Yes, Virginia" editorial about Santa Claus
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jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
Country & Western, Opera, Rap, and Hip Hop. Makes me cry, my skin crawl, hair fall out, my ears and nose bleed, and I break out in a hideous rash
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estrnad OP
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Craig-- Yeah, Roberta Flack's version of "First Time Ever" is good, but as mentioned in first post I really like the gentler version of Mary Travers, and the ambiguity she wraps the ending in... she thought it would last 'til the end of time (it didn't, did it?).

I sense a bit of denial in the jokier responses... if you're not getting emotionally involved with the music, maybe you're just a hardware junkie, hmmmm??
camadeco
133 posts
 
Anything with John Lennon singing. From "Twist and Shout" to "Watching the Wheels". I miss his presence on the planet.
paulwp
585 posts
 
Well, that's interesting. Off topic I think, but I'll admit that anything by Nicolette Larson brings tears to my eyes because of her untimely passing. My favorite song of hers is Leon Russell's "Say You Will," which isnt on the recent greatest hits cd, but the tearjerker from the same lp is Andrew Gold's "Still You Linger On."

To be perfectly honest, the mention of her name reduces me to tears.
fpeel
446 posts
 
"Let It Rain" - Patricia Barber
"The Dance" - Dave Koz

Of course, there's LOTS of music that gets me misty eyed. Just a sentimental old fool...
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