What’s the Saddest Song You Ever Heard?

[Donn]

"If You're Reading This" Tim McGraw. My son was in Iraq at the time, I couldn't listen to it. Still tough.

 

[BigBoy99]

I heard that if you play a sad country song backwards, his girlfriend comes back, he wins the fight in the bar parking lot, his dog wasn't hit by a truck, he discovers he doesn't like beer and never gets drunk and his best friend pays him back all of the money which was borrowed!

 

[cherrypointmarine]

There's a couple :
You're the reason God made Oklahoma
Rest your love on me
And for some strange reason :
Ballad of the Green Berets

 

[joeintexas]

Marty Robbins version of "You Gave Me A Mountain" still makes me chill up.

 

[DeathGrip]

YouTube


Mrs. Avery was a witch.

 

[Coot47]

Tom Waits is an acquired taste, but this one gets to me...

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

 

[Rastoff]

The saddest and happiest song all rolled into one.

 

[Isis1200L]

Bobby Goldsboro, "Honey".
And, "On Top of Spaghetti", which starts out sad, but
has a happy ending.

 

[K Frame Keith]

My vote is cast for Garth Brook's The Dance.

 

[Golddollar]

Hello Walls by Faron Young.

 

[boykinlp]

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l11oCvBxnQ0[/ame]

 

[BigBill]

Sad songs are good for our soul, it keeps us on track, makes us think what's really important in life and don't sweat the little things. Welcome to reality it's like losing your first love. I'm sure many of us will read into a sad song in different ways.

Send in the clowns, don't bother there here........or hello darkness my old friend, I come to talk with you again.

 

[old tanker]

Along with Taps, these two hit home:

Ich hatt' einen Kameraden

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtV9p7gKBo[/ame]

The Minstrel Boy

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj2j7R1NL-s[/ame]

 

[Old Arkansawyer]

There are several on here I like and I will add a few more.
Memories by Elvis the King
Chiseled in stone by Vern Gosdin
The baby by Blake Shelton
TB blues by Jimmy Rogers
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy
Danny boy by various

 

[Watchdog]

What's the Saddest Song You Ever Heard?

Taps.

 

[hoosierone]

When my first love dumped me she said when she heard the Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" she thought of me. Cute huh?

Sam Cook's "Only 16" reminds me of her.

 

[Bugkiller99]

This was sung by a church choir member at a friend's three year old child's funeral. She also sang it a cappella. Perhaps not as good as Whitney, but you could not have proven it on that sad day... not a dry eye in the sanctuary


YouTube

 

[olcop]

Song

"Green, Green Grass of Home" by either Merle Haggard or Tom Jones

+1, almost brings me to tears everytime I hear it!

 

[CH4]

The rendition of Nini Rosso's Il Silenzio from the end of American Sniper
makes my cry like a 3rd grade school girl...

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K4eCMSIM4WQ[/ame]

 

[husker51]

So many tear jerkers have been mentioned. One that always gets to me is "The Three Bells" by The Browns. Just makes me think of certain people that have passed.