oneounceload
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Amazing Grace played by a solitary bagpiper..........it was played at my dad's funeral.
What’s the Saddest Song You Ever Heard?
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Lee Brice, "I Drive Your Truck". When you have a son in the service who also drives a pickup...
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Too many to name..
There are songs that make me cry, but not because they are sad. Then there all the ones that are REALLY sad.
Johnny Cast 'Hurt' is pretty dang sad.
Cat's in the Cradle- Harry Chapin
Concrete Angel - Martina McBride
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright version is my fave
Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison (OK 'Crying' and 'In Dreams', too)
Without You - Harry Nilsson.
In choir we've done everything from 'Messiah' to Andre Crouch. But it's the simple ones that sneak in the back door and clobber you. I think it was "I Have Come To You" that was written and dedicated to a child that had died. It doesn't mention that in the song, but the childlike faith that is mature for it's years.... I've never gotten through it unscathed.
I would be amiss if I didn't include some operatic
tear-jerkers.
Federico's Lament - Cilea (He can't get her out of his head)
Siegfried's Funeral March - Wagner (Siegfried has a 'hunting accident')
Vesti La Giubba and Si Puo? Senore, Signori - Leoncavallo - Leoncavallo (The Clown discovers that his wife is having an affair)
Vecchia Zimirrara (ending of La Bohe'me) - Puccini (Death of Mimi)
There are songs that make me cry, but not because they are sad. Then there all the ones that are REALLY sad.
Johnny Cast 'Hurt' is pretty dang sad.
Cat's in the Cradle- Harry Chapin
Concrete Angel - Martina McBride
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright version is my fave
Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Only the Lonely - Roy Orbison (OK 'Crying' and 'In Dreams', too)
Without You - Harry Nilsson.
In choir we've done everything from 'Messiah' to Andre Crouch. But it's the simple ones that sneak in the back door and clobber you. I think it was "I Have Come To You" that was written and dedicated to a child that had died. It doesn't mention that in the song, but the childlike faith that is mature for it's years.... I've never gotten through it unscathed.
I would be amiss if I didn't include some operatic
tear-jerkers.
Federico's Lament - Cilea (He can't get her out of his head)
Siegfried's Funeral March - Wagner (Siegfried has a 'hunting accident')
Vesti La Giubba and Si Puo? Senore, Signori - Leoncavallo - Leoncavallo (The Clown discovers that his wife is having an affair)
Vecchia Zimirrara (ending of La Bohe'me) - Puccini (Death of Mimi)
GF
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For those who have been.
GF
For those who have been.
GF
"Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life"
With bagpipes . . .
Muss, I can take Amazing Grace on bag pipes, but not at a funeral of one our own.
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cballman
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I have two that sends chills up and down.
The first is Amazing Grace as done on the Bagpipes single or with a group of them.
The second has to be Taps which is either followed or before the 21 gun salute.
Tears me up just thinking about how they have been done at Funerals I have attended. Chills running up in my back and neck just thinking about now.
The first is Amazing Grace as done on the Bagpipes single or with a group of them.
The second has to be Taps which is either followed or before the 21 gun salute.
Tears me up just thinking about how they have been done at Funerals I have attended. Chills running up in my back and neck just thinking about now.
olcop
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America the Beautiful by my two Grandaughters
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Iris Dement
olcop
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms by Iris Dement
olcop
The same man that could make you laugh till your ribbs hurt, also wrote this music.
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Well, I've heard it way too many times at those events. As was the purpose of this thread, the saddest song I've ever heard . . .
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oneounceload
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Why it makes it the saddest; my dad was NYPD.........
Malpasowildlifer
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500 Miles by the Kingston Trio
Gulfecho
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For all who chose Amazing Grace played by bagpipes I thought I would post this...simply beautiful.
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Protocall_Design
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Candle in the Wind by Elton John.
I watched that last night on YouTube. There was another one where Alan Jackson sang it at the Opry in a tribute to George Jones; he was in the front row of the audience...it must have been shortly before he passed, because he was looking pretty elderly.
jag312
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Tip Toe Through The Tulips by Tiny Tim. I sure will cry if I ever have to listen to it.
