What’s the Saddest Song You Ever Heard?

[jag312]

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[amazingflapjack]

Last Dance-Floyd Cramer.

 

[mike from st pete]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnPj-Ty2Ew[/ame]

When a man don't use good judgment

 

[Onomea]

Tex Ritter's Blood on the Saddle. One of my dear departed dad's favorites. (Brought tears to his eyes every time he'd sing it. Not for the faint of heart...)

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[OLDSTER]

I have dozens of them, ha. I specialize in them but here are a couple. Townes Van Zandt- Marie
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The Band Played Waltzing Matilda- John McDermott
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Thank you for posting the video of John McDermotts rendition of "Waltzing Matilda". I'm a pretty hard boiled character of 72, but every time I've heard this song over the years, I break down and weep. I hits me in the heart for personal reasons.

 

[Bekeart]

Get Up Jimmy Newman

"Jimmy Newman"

Get up Jimmy Newman the morning is come ....

Complet lyrics:
Tom Paxton – Jimmy Newman Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

Early 70s I saw Ton Paxton live at The Quiet Knight in Chicago.
He finished this song with tears and quickly left the stage.

What sets Paxton's songs apart is a deep sense of empathy, conveyed by his writing in the first-person. "Jimmy Newman," sung from the perspective of a young soldier in Vietnam, with its heart-breaking final verse, remains one of the most moving anti-war songs ever written.

Bekeart

 

[lkabug]

Hank William, I'm so lonesome I could cry

 

[ladder13]

Anything Country.

 

[Rosco Shooter]

"Highway Song" Blackfoot

 

[yaktamer]

"Mickey" by Toni Basil. In the early 80s I was a DJ at a radio station. Hated that God-awful teeny-bopper pop garbage song and got so sick of having to play it I want to kill myself whenever I hear it, so to me, anyway, it's sad.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Hank William, I'm so lonesome I could cry

You can say that again! Lots of Hank's songs are really down.
Some of them are so dark that the record company wouldn't put his name on the records.
Those are Luke the Drifter records.
My fav Hank sad song is Lost Highway.
On second thought, I'm going with probably his best known Luke the Drifter Song,
Rambling Man.
And Hank did all of this and departed at 29.
At that age, I still wouldn't buy anything that I couldn't get in the trunk of my car!

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[ACP230]

"No Time To Cry" by Iris Dement may not be the saddest but it will
do till a sadder song comes along.
She also has one called "Our Town" that could fill in for "No Time To
Cry."

 

[rwsmith]

This deserves it's own rendition.....

"Danny Boy" brings tears to my eyes every time. To really understand the context, one should hear all the verses, to wit:

Oh, Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side.
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go and I must bide.

But come ye back when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow,
It's I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow,
Oh, Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so!

But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'll come and find the place where I am lying,
And kneel and say an Ave there for me.

And I shall hear, though soft you tread above me,
And all my grave will warmer, sweeter be,
For you will bend and tell me that you love me,
And I shall sleep in peace until you come to me.

Not a song, but a melody: "Taps."

John

There are many versions but they have the same idea.

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[Rustyt1953]

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[Rustyt1953]

Another sad song but is opera (not into opera) is Sarah Brightman and "Time To Say Goodbye"

Having Andrea Bocelli in there didn't hurt that one bit. He is astounding.

 

[Texas Star]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsXsQf3qxEQ[/ame]

Waltzing Matilda, by The Seekers. Military tribute to Anzac and US forces in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf.

Someone posted a link that was supposed to be to this song, but was a very sad song about an Aussie in WW I who lost one or both legs at Gallipoli.

Waltzing Matilda is also quite sad. If you don't know Aussie slang, the gist of it is that a bum stole a lamb, but was caught by the landowner and the cops. Determined not to lose his freedom, he drowned himself in a pond or offset (oxbow) of a river, a billabong.

The Seekers are among Australia's oldest and most famed musical groups, so I'm glad to have found this recording of them, with its modern martial theme.

 

[bill2000]

Not sure it's the saddest but it's on point

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[bushmaster1313]

After my son in law walked out on my daughter I cannot listen to "Two out of three ain't bad" by Meat Loaf.

 

[Texas Star]

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This one always grabs me by the tear ducts when I view, "We Were Soldiers."

We have borne too many of our broken brothers to the mansions of the Lord, and it's still going on. But through such grief is the nation able to survive.

May God receive and rest the souls of those who gallantly defend us... and too often make the ultimate sacrifice.

 

[yaktamer]

Having Andrea Bocelli in there didn't hurt that one bit. He is astounding.

There's a live outdoor concert version by the two of them I've posted here before that is even better. Check Youtube.