What’s the Saddest Song You Ever Heard?

[Pop's2]

makes you stop and think

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iXNMPsMv-I[/ame]

 

[1911 45]

Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton

 

[BearBio]

The wind that shakes the barley==old Irish ballad
The fields of Athenry=Irish Ballad

 

[nachogrande]

WISE WAY BEYOND THEIR YEARS, AT THAT TIME!

THE BEATLES: JUST A FEW, In my life, The fool on the hill, Eleanor Rigby, Blackbird, The long and winding road, etc. etc. Sometimes even better when performed by others, Kenny Rankin, King Curtis...

 

[jpage]

Pelosi singing the blues (again)

 

[handejector]

Did not read the whole thread, so this may have been mentioned-

Ashokan Farewell sounds sad to me. Perhaps it just reminds me of that awful carnage.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N__4oE0Afs[/ame]

 

[Hamster65]

I have plenty to choose from on this subject but, I think the one that gets me the most is this.........

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vn6QdqxK3g[/ame]

 

[LVSteve]

First time I heard this on the radio, I bawled my seven-year-old eyes out. It took the place of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" that my grandma used to sing to me, as the saddest song ever.

Peter, Paul and Mary -Puff The Magic Dragon - YouTube

It's funny to think back, but it wasn't until I was in my early teens that I realised what a gut ripper that last verse is. That song defines loss of innocence.

 

[Jim R]

George Burns - "I wish I was 18 again"

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57__OyMCfI[/ame]

 

[Jim R]

Louis Armstrong What A Wonderful World
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5TwT69i1lU[/ame]

 

[Geronimo Jim]

Hank Williams.......I'm so lonesome I could die......

 

[sigp220.45]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.

Because it means Die Hard is over.

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

I have to admit, songs don't get to me. I like taps, because they used to play it over the loudspeaker at night when we lived on base. (I have a standing order that there will be no bagpipes at my funeral. Cop funerals have forever killed bagpipes for me.)

I did like the God and Dog one, though, as I strongly believe in one of the two.

 

[Slowhanddd]

I can't believe no one has said it
"Turn Out The lights,The parties over"

 

[WardenRoss]

Mr. Bojangles......when the dog dies......gets me everytime.......

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjKNMb36SKY[/ame]

 

[kscharlie]

"Old Shep" by Walter Brennan.

Just listened to it again to make sure it still makes me cry. It does, and I'm not the least bit ashamed to say so.

 

[CustomChevyGuy]

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.

I couldn't agree to these two more. Taps always hits me hard, and takes me back to my buddy's Marine Corps funeral.

I'd like to add Carrie Underwood's - Temporary Home
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraOiHUltak[/ame]

Two others that have hit me as well include
George Strait - A Fathers Love
Rodney Atkins - Watching you

 

[Evil Dog]

Taps......

 

[Usmc5811]

My son had colic really bad and the only thing that would quiet him down was Pearl Jam's "Thumbing My Way To Heaven". We listened to that over and over. Then he got the flu and then MRSA and passed a month after his first birthday. My wife and I both can never make it through the song without breaking down. He would have turned 16 this past December. And not a Day has went by without thinking about Ian. But we now have two beautiful girls agees 13 and 9. But lord help me I'll be having two teenaged daughters soon!!

[ame]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SDSStJ9I754[/ame]

 

[deadin]

Here's another one that can get to me... I attended a lot of Navy funerals in my 20 years on active duty....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic8zMkYwnq8[/ame]

 

[eveled]

Amazing Grace is a powerful song, and I understand it can be associated with sad memories, but it is not supposed to be a sad song. It's supposed to give you hope because you've been saved.

My sadest song is "whiskey lullaby" Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.