Song that makes you cry....

Tom Margulies · Post by **Tom Margulies** » 6 May 2014 6:27 pm

John Prine's Sam Spade (there's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes) brings a tear to my eye

George Jones Good Year for the Roses

Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 6 May 2014 6:59 pm

"Tough All Over" by Shelby Lynne

"A Fire I Can't Put Out" - George Strait, but I like the way a band I played in did it a lot better

Frank Freniere · Post by **Frank Freniere** » 7 May 2014 5:43 am

You've put on some thought-provoking threads here lately, Tom...

From the same John Prine album: "Hello In There"

"Secret Love" - Lloyd Green

"That's My Job" - Conway

"I Swear" - John Michael Montgomery

That's probably good for a half box of Kleenex.

Added 5/16/14: "You Are My Sunshine."

Jack Hanson · Post by **Jack Hanson** » 7 May 2014 9:19 am

Anything by the Shaggs.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 7 May 2014 9:46 am

"That's My Job" is kinda sad, but the one song that really made me sad was "I Just Called To Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder in the eighties. I don't know why that song made me sad, but when I was a kid, it always made me cry a little bit. When I hear that song now, I laugh at that memory. I think "I Just Called" would make a great steel instrumental

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 7 May 2014 4:02 pm

Cal Smith - I Didn't Even Cry - from 1975 lp "It's Time To Pay The Fiddler."

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 7 May 2014 5:46 pm

John Prine's Sam Stone is a sad one. Along the same note of Asian war songs that are sad is "Ruby, don't take your love to town."

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 7 May 2014 5:58 pm

I always get a little teary-eyed at "Dead Man's Curve"...

Curt Trisko · Post by **Curt Trisko** » 7 May 2014 6:28 pm

This is one thing I like about classic country... those songwriters really know how to take a man's low-simmering emotions and boil them over.

"Holding Things Together" - Merle Haggard
http://youtu.be/r4Rm9hGzg6U

"I Did The Right Thing" - Johnny Paycheck
http://youtu.be/TJgRnePNHQM

"I've Seen Better Days" - Johnny Paycheck
http://youtu.be/a1ct1pj6jPY

All of these songs involve a man either abandoning his kids, having his ex-wife take his kids away from him, or having his wife abandon him and leave him alone with his kids.

Milton C. Willmann · Post by **Milton C. Willmann** » 7 May 2014 7:33 pm

Darrel McCall's, "Down The Roads Of Daddy's Dreams"

Curt Trisko · Post by **Curt Trisko** » 7 May 2014 7:34 pm

This is one thing I like about classic country... those songwriters really know how to take a man's low-simmering emotions and boil them over.

"Holding Things Together" - Merle Haggard
http://youtu.be/r4Rm9hGzg6U

"I Did The Right Thing" - Johnny Paycheck
http://youtu.be/TJgRnePNHQM

"I've Seen Better Days" - Johnny Paycheck
http://youtu.be/a1ct1pj6jPY

All of these songs involve a man either abandoning his kids, having his ex-wife take his kids away from him, or having his wife abandon him and leave him alone with his kids.

Keith Murrow · Post by **Keith Murrow** » 7 May 2014 8:03 pm

'Where Have You Been?' - Kathy Mattea

'Love, Me' - Collin Raye

Graham · Post by **Graham** » 8 May 2014 3:35 am

A few more:

Red Sovine - Little Rosa; Three Loving Children; The Prettiest Dress

George Jones - Mama, Take Me Home

Little Jimmy - Raggedy Ann

Cal Smith - The Show's Almost Over

Porter Wagoner - The Little Boy's Prayer; Roses Out Of Season

Waylon Jennings - Grey Eyes You Know

Chuck Christensen · Post by **Chuck Christensen** » 8 May 2014 4:46 am

OLD SHEP by Red Foley

Chuck Christensen · Post by **Chuck Christensen** » 8 May 2014 4:47 am

OLD SHEP by Red Foley

Chuck Christensen · Post by **Chuck Christensen** » 8 May 2014 4:47 am

OLD SHEP by Red Foley

Paul Arntson · Post by **Paul Arntson** » 19 May 2014 9:33 am

2pac "dear mama"

Really.

Rick Stratton · Post by **Rick Stratton** » 19 May 2014 10:37 am

No steel on it, but "Celluloid Heroes" by The Kinks always gets to me.....

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 20 May 2014 9:34 am

Keith Murrow wrote:'Where Have You Been?' - Kathy Mattea

'Love, Me' - Collin Raye

"Love, Me" and "Where've You Been" are very sad songs, without a doubt.

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 20 May 2014 11:37 am

This one has been doing it to me the last couple of days. Very pretty song. Ashley Monroe is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Reop48BxAHI

Jerry Hayes · Post by **Jerry Hayes** » 22 May 2014 7:46 am

I heard it first some years back on an Austin City Limits show which featured Chet Atkins. Chet put on this old hat and sang (yes sang) a song about his dad. I cried like a baby and since I'd taped that show I play it from time to time and still cry along with it. Chet has an uncanny resemblance to my late father who I loved very much and still miss today even though he's been gone twenty five years....

Another one I get teary eyed to is the Reba McIntyre recording of "the Greatest Man I Never Knew"....JH in Va.

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 22 May 2014 7:48 am

2nd movement of Concerto de Aranjuez, by Rodrigo.

Post by **Joey Ace** » 22 May 2014 1:07 pm

The Chet song Jerry mentions is "I Still Can't Say Goodbye".
http://youtu.be/OVSHdwWzLo4

I could bring a tear to a glass eye.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 22 May 2014 1:48 pm

Jo Stafford's version of Shenandoah

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 22 May 2014 3:47 pm

Jerry Hayes wrote:I heard it first some years back on an Austin City Limits show which featured Chet Atkins. Chet put on this old hat and sang (yes sang) a song about his dad. I cried like a baby and since I'd taped that show I play it from time to time and still cry along with it. Chet has an uncanny resemblance to my late father who I loved very much and still miss today even though he's been gone twenty five years....

Another one I get teary eyed to is the Reba McIntyre recording of "the Greatest Man I Never Knew"....JH in Va.

The song Chet sang is "I Still Can't Say Goodbye".