What songs bring a tear to your eye?

Thirsty · « **Reply #20 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 02:09 am »

Tip of my Tounge-John Hiatt, off of the Bring the Family Album.

BaMorin · « **Reply #21 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 02:12 am »

Walter Trout's version of Bob Dylan's........I shall be released.

thunderbrick · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 03:06 am »

Quote from: decal on 26 Mar 2012, 01:24 am

Anything by Yoko Ono is sure to bring a tear to your eye and a busted eardrum!!!!!

+1!

thunderbrick · « **Reply #23 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 03:08 am »

Quote from: Delacroix on 26 Mar 2012, 01:39 am

Ouch --- you hit my nerve right there. I have a version on an old compilation of Irish songs I bought once and it reminds me of my own parents back in Ireland. "Danny Boy" pulls the strings, "Amazing Grace" always moves me, Diane Schuur's "You've got to hurt before you heal" always stills me to silence, but "Kilkelly, Ireland" makes me cry, to the point that I cannot listen to it easily. To describe the song's themes themselves is likely to invoke ridicule, but to hear the lines, in context, with that air, almost defies human endurance.

Couldn't say it any better, Delacroix!

MoonUnit · « **Reply #24 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 05:14 am »

For me it would be "To Build a Home" by the Cinematic Orchestra. In this moving live performance, if you watch closely you can even see one of the violinists wipe away a tear as she's performing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjjc59FgUpg

Tyson · « **Reply #25 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 06:21 am »

When it's done right - opening movement of Bach's cello suite #1

Elizabeth · « **Reply #26 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 08:53 am »

The Countess' lament in Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)

bunky · « **Reply #27 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 10:23 am »

ZAPPA-Watermelon in Easter hay

Mitsuman · « **Reply #28 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 10:42 am »

Quote from: bunky on 26 Mar 2012, 10:23 am

ZAPPA-Watermelon in Easter hay

A great guitar song for sure but really?

bunky · « **Reply #29 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 12:11 pm »

a Guitar can evoke strong emotion just as a Symphony or a human voice can. i dont expect everyone to get it,but if you dont you get it you probably never will.

BaMorin · « **Reply #30 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 12:30 pm »

Quote from: bunky on 26 Mar 2012, 12:11 pm

a Guitar can evoke strong emotion just as a Symphony or a human voice can. i dont expect everyone to get it,but if you dont you get it you probably never will.

Been a lifelong Zappa fan. 30 plus albums, along with my original bought new after release Freak Out.
Scratching my head as well.

Mitsuman · « **Reply #31 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 02:00 pm »

Quote from: bunky on 26 Mar 2012, 12:11 pm

a Guitar can evoke strong emotion just as a Symphony or a human voice can. i dont expect everyone to get it,but if you dont you get it you probably never will.

I don't disagree at all, and Watermelon In Easter Hay is one of my favorite Zappa solos...........I just don't tear up when I listen to it.

doug s. · « **Reply #32 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 05:42 pm »

Quote from: macrojack on 25 Mar 2012, 04:50 pm

KILKELLY as performed by The Green Fields of America.

It's a live recording on LP. The true story of a series of letters from an illiterate old man in Ireland to his son in America. The young man never returns to his homeland and the old man dies never having seen his son again....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76kAivCb20&feature=related

man, macro, i must really be a wimp. i have never heard this song, but yust reading what you wrote, and the thought of never seeing my son again brought tears to my eyes.

here's a song that gets me every time - it is yust so f**king depressing and sad:

dan fogelberg, same old lang syne
lyrics and song/wideo on u-toob:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dan+fogelberg/same+old+lang+syne_20035792.html

doug s.

rcag_ils · « **Reply #33 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 05:52 pm »

For me, definitely "Cowgirl in the sand" by Neil Young, the acoustic version in the "4 way street" album, not the regular electric version.

jobyts · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 06:00 pm »

Cat's in the Cradle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OqwKfgLaeA

This is not a song, but a 5 minute movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNK6h1dfy2o

roymail · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:14 pm »

Agree with Bob in St. Louis, Eva Cassidy... Songbird, Autumn Leaves, Somewhere over the Rainbow.

What a beautiful talent... gone.

milford3 · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:26 pm »

This song always does it for me. Vanessa Williams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EdmHSTwmWY

thunderbrick · « **Reply #37 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:32 pm »

Quote from: macrojack on 25 Mar 2012, 07:55 pm

Thunderbrick - You surprised me. I didn't expect anybody to know Kilkelly.

How about Christmas in the Trenches by John Mc Cutcheon from his Winter Solstice album. Also a true story and historically verifiable, this one tells of the Christmas eve encounter between German and English troops during WW I in France.

There's more............

DAMN, Macro! I just scored that LP TODAY when getting a last crack at what my local NPR station was giving away!

macrojack · « **Reply #38 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:51 pm »

A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request by Steve Goodman. A mixed bag of emotions. Cub fans will laugh and cry.

Redemption Song by Bob Marley. Everybody knows that one.

Now That the Buffalo's Gone by Buffy Sainte Marie.

Before You Came by Jesse Colin Young.

Vincent by Don McLean

The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by Jean Redpath or many others.

We're drowning in tears at my house.

By the way, that June Tabor piece is acapella and crystal clear. When I was up at Zu a few years back, the boys turned me on to it. Makes a breathtaking demo.

macrojack · « **Reply #39 on:** 26 Mar 2012, 07:54 pm »

T-brick,
Obviously providence at work. It sat there waiting for you. Have you listened to it yet?