What song brings tears to your eyes?

[Seagull58]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnoyiVZUxUk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH6KApqmrBk

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I saw Joe Brown do this Live in Concert a few years ago in Wimborne. I knew the song before, but never really realised what it was about. Joe Brown solo with just a ukelele - brought tears to my eyes and has done every time since.

 

[Acker79]

I find it's really cheesy songs that can get me, such as a few by Garth Brooks -
It's Your Song - which was dedicated to his mother who had been diagnosed with throat cancer
Standing Outside the Fire - The music video to this is very cheesy, but if I think about it while listing to the song it can hit me
Cowboy Bill - simply a cheesy song.

The Dixie Chicks version of Travellin' Soldier gets me, too.

Also the denouements of Les Mis and Phantom of the Opera can get me when I've sat through the whole thing.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

I saw Joe Brown do this Live in Concert a few years ago in Wimborne. I knew the song before, but never really realised what it was about. Joe Brown solo with just a ukelele - brought tears to my eyes and has done every time since.

I met Joe Brown years ago when I was 15, He was friends with my uncle who ran The Abergvenny at Rodmell, and I was in there after cricket one day.
We played that song for my mother in law at her funeral after we found dead one Saturday when she had a brain anurism overnight.
Wonderful song and such beautiul words and meanings,

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHpdAONEmZE

 

[Tarpon]

This rendition today but Paddy's tomorrow etc. WHAT A SONG.

 

[Tarpon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHpdAONEmZE

Fine choice sir. Time for me to revisit his oeuvre.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Nthing tops this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6BJLjTDtXo

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Or maybe this.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSNe4r8Epo

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Pass the Kleenex . . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQgkF_FsO4

 

[Tooting Gull]

Supertramp - Give A Little Bit

 

[Theodoridi]

Abide with me. Bearing in mind that I am not religious, I thought that the obituary video the Albion made was touching
and brought a tear to my eye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDltZWulATo

 

[Tarpon]

Don't let the jumpers put you off.
Onions, every time.

 

[OzMike]

Ken Boothe - Everything I Own

Try the original by Bread, written by David Gates.
Aubrey by David Gates is also real tear jerker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1xkD8ltAR8

 

[OzMike]

Don't Give up by Peter Gabriel, with a little help from Kate Bush.

Always a great fan of Peter Gabriel, and particularly th album "So", but I was out of work for a while in 1992/93 (semi-househusbanding because my wife had a good job, but still trying to get back in to work. It was black Wednesday, with Norman Lamont announcing increases in the interest rate about every 5 minutes and then finally withdrawing from the Exchange Rate Mechanism. I was sitting at our kitchen table thinking "Will I ever get back in to work again"........ and then this song came up on the radio.

The words were just so apt and the sentiment of the song is wonderful. Always gets me.

With you on this one.

 

[OzMike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Go6I2_PpBU

This will test your tear ducts, I sang it for the Mrs at our wedding.

 

[OzMike]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24IfD-0VUu4

Another by David Gates.

 

[OzMike]

Glen Campbell on discovering that he has incurable Altzhiemers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8TsAh-zYFI
I believe that he also holds the world record for playing the Flight of the Bumble Bee on guitar.

 

[OzMike]

Another from Supertramp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8dzYlUrRRY

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

Tears in Heaven for me.

It never used to, until I had a child of my own. Now I find those lyrics borderline haunting.