We've compiled a list of songs that make our eyes well up with tears. What songs pull your heart strings? Tell us your favorite tear-jerker tunes.
Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
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Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 10:43 AM EST
- BostonDotCom
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Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 11:03 AM EST
- MattyScornD
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The Sappy McSchmaltz playlist...
...with no sense of irony and a few indie gems thrown in for geek cred. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 11:12 AM EST
- jesseyeric
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Only because of a personal experience, the song Fly to the Angels by Slaughter does cause me to take a deep breath. Although the song was written as a tribute to Amelia Earhart, the lyrics and tone of the song hit hard when I lost someone to gun violence back in the 90's.
Two other songs also cause me to pause as they both have a very close connection to my late father and now that so many years have passed, they also allow me to reflect back on my life; Both accomplishments ad regrets and the fact that I never was graced with children:
Old Man - Neil Young
It Was a Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 11:48 AM EST
- ronj
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Downbound Train by Springsteen...
"I work down at the car wash
Where all it ever does is rain...." -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 11:50 AM EST
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"TAXI" - Harry Chapin. Saddest song I've ever heard. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 11:50 AM EST
- four-green-fields
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Here are a couple of '70s classics that will make you tear-up
Billy Don't be a Hero (by Paper Lace)
Blind Man in the Bleachers (by Kenny Starr) -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 12:01 PM EST
- MattyScornD
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OK, I'll bite:
Rod Stewart - You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)
Gets me every damm time. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 12:15 PM EST
- PrincessLuna
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Another Claptons song...Bell Bottom Blues
"If I could choose a place to die...It would be in your arms"
oh and Cats in the Cradle...eek! more parental angst but still....
U2 was mentioned but I would have gone with "One"
"you gave me nothing now it's all I've got" -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 12:16 PM EST
- GreginMeffa
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Well, I went through the list. Hallelujah, Tears from Heaven (killer) and Unchained Melody were good choices. The other 13 kinda svck, and I Will Always Love You is a Dolly Parton song.
"Here a song thats guaranteed to bring you right down. Its called, Don't Let it Bring You Down. It sorta starts off real slow and then fizzles out all together". - Neil Young, Four Way Street
Eleanor Rigby. Beatles (Paul and George Martin)
Garden of Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say) - Ian Gillan, Jesus Christ Superstar - Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
I can actually cry when a play the last one, which makes for a rather moving performance, (if I do say so myself) -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 12:40 PM EST
- mrmojo1120
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As an adult the 2 songs are;Tears in heaven- Eric Clapton.This song hits me the hardest.It has a very special meaning to me.
And Mean Mistreater by Grand Funk
As a teen,there was a song I had on 45 by a group called Think and the name of it was "Things get a little easier,once you understand".Another song was called "American City Suite" by Cashman and West. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 12:51 PM EST
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Pride - U2
Brick - Ben Folds Five
+1 to Hallelujah, Taxi and Very Good Year -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 1:19 PM EST
- fitz293
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She's Out Of My Life - Michael Jackson (so sad even Jackson himself cried during the song)
Don't Give Up - Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 1:40 PM EST
- yogafriend
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In Response to Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?:Pride - U2 Brick - Ben Folds Five +1 to Hallelujah, Taxi and Very Good Year
Posted by gerbsI'm going with another song by the Ben Folds Five: "Magic" -- killer song.ETA: "You'll Never Walk Alone" -- nice choice, MsC. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 1:44 PM EST
- redglare2
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"Yes It Is" -- The Beatles
"Please Let Me Wonder" -- The Beach Boys
"Ain't No Way" -- Aretha Franklin
"One Fine Day" -- David Forman -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 1:57 PM EST
- fairnsquare
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All by Bob Dylan:
- Bob Dylan's Dream
- If You See Her, Say Hello
- It Ain't Me, Babe
- Just Like A Woman
- Mississippi
- Red River Shore
- Simple Twist Of Fate
- You're A Big Girl Now
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Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 2:21 PM EST
- hv08
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Pretenders/Chrissy Hynde - Back on the Chain Gang -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 2:36 PM EST
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Youre The One - Shane MacGowan/Moya Brennan
Meat is Murder by the Smiths can tinker on it -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 2:47 PM EST
- polar123
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Silent House- Neil Finn. The song is haunting. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 3:12 PM EST
- Derpulator
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U2 has a plethora of hauntingly beautiful songs..........most of them don't get much air time. Here's a few
Mothers of the Disappeared
Red Hill Mining Town
Running to Stand Still
Your So Cruel
All I Want is You
Love...............slowly stripped away
Love..................................has seen it's better day -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 3:52 PM EST
- EnjoyEverySandwich
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Collin Raye: "One Boy One Girl" gets me every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnUEteN90hM
I should probably be embarassed to admit it. It is one of those classically styled country tunes that circles around on itself:
One boy, one girl
Two hearts beating wilding
To put it mildly it was love at first sight.....
This is the chorus that pops up after two people meet, after they say their I-do's at the altar, and then after they visit the doctor for an ultrasound ("He was holding her hand when the doctor looked up and grinned. Congratulations -- Twins. One boy, one girl, two hearts beating wildly....")
Yeah, I should be too cool for it, but it just catches me every time. I think when a songwriter tells a story using just enough words to convey the scene and the full emotions of the moment -- well, you're pulled in good and solid. -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 5:17 PM EST
- a1soxfan
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It's a lot older than I am, but I think the saddest song ever was written by Irving Berlin:What'll I do when you are far awayAnd I am blue, What'll I do?What'll I do when I am wond'ring whoIs kissing you, What'll I do?What'll I do with just a photographTo tell my troubles to?When I'm alone with only dreams of youThat won't come true, What'll I do? -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 6:36 PM EST
- baboo825
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Somewhere over the rainbow by the hawaiian guy with the uke
and Pink Moon by Nick Drake -
Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 7:26 PM EST
- clt-pbd
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Maybe too heavy on the folk, but:
"Until It's Time For You To Go"
Buffy Ste Marie
"Urge for Going"
Tom Rush
"On the Way Home"
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Re: Your favorite tear-jerker songs?
posted at 2/7/2012 7:40 PM EST
- nancysyd
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Etta James - All I Could do was Cry