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Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

Give my love to Rose by Johnny Cash hit me like a sledgehammer. The version off "Ring of Fire - the legend of Johnny Cash"

Others that have put a lump in my throat include-

Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen
Singer of Songs - Johnny Cash

Another lumpy throat one- My son calls another man daddy by Hank Williams. There's a lot more songs that have bored me to tears! ha

Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics. Good cautionary tale of telling people how much you love them before they're gone. Me and my dad were too head strong to back down on issues and would often fall out and not speak for ages - shit really !. The words could have been written for us both. Don't play it much because I get megga upset with that time in my life and I think my dad would of been proud of MY little family which he sadly missed out on because of his death,

Rick.

ps, I'm a happy bloke really ( when I don't hear that song ) - LOL.

Youtube it and have a listen to the lyrics !

Me to Rick , lost my dad 2 years ago ,and i cant listen to this anymore even tho i M mega Paul Carrick fan

and again Fields of Gold Eva Cassidy

Minnie Ripperton Loving You

Queen Who Wants To Live Forever

Waiting On Love By Bad Company - done on their mid nineties Stories Told and Untold album with Robert Hart on vocals

Brings a tear in a nice way as we had it playing as me and Mrs C walked out of church :o)

Max

Josh Groban - "to where you are" ..and .."february song"...

Living Years...what a bummer! Never played it since my father died and turn radio off if it comes on.
However the killer for me is..
Our Town...Iris Dement
very very hard for me to listen that...seems to sum up my like in Atherton. I always follow it up with 'Living in the Wasteland of the Free' by Iris ...really gets me fired up again!
If anybody hasn't heard the Iris Dement songs....Spotify em...essential listening...and what a voice! She could sing our local chippy's menu board and it would grab you! LOL

Angel by Sarah McLachlan - check out the purest vocal ever. Gorgeous.
The things we`ve handed down - Marc Cohn - If you`ve got kids,I defy you not to get a lump in your throat.
I am I said - Neil Diamond - just because, that`s all.

Chris

@ catdog - totally agree with the marc cohn choice chris - that "angel or devil" line......similar feeling song on his last album - "let me be your witness" - so emotive.

"the end" or "easy just to slip away" by peter hammill.

Any song featuring Karen Carpenter.
Eva Cassidy.
Who knows what further masterpieces would have followed had they not been taken so soon.

Terry Wogan's Floral Dance.
Had me crying in me cornflakes when I first heard it.......

Richie Samboras version of I'll Be There For You - For my 21st Birthday I got tickets to a secret show Sambora did in London.... Anyway he did a load of Bon Jovi tracks aswel as his own stuff also a cover of Dobie Grays - Drift Away.

On both tracks I welled up as the band was just magic. it was basicly Claptons band with Tracy Chapman on guitar and interchanging bass players who were Tony Levin and Nathan East.... like you do.

Maybe there is another blog here about moving moments at concerts..... Anyway im off sticking some Sambora on and gonna have a scrike.

Bonjour x

any --kin Dance/rap or hippohop music drives me to tears!

Michael Picasso by Ian Hunter

gorecki, symphony No 3.symphony of sorrowful songs. If you have never heard this and can make the effort to listen to it and find out its history, i dont think you could ever hear anything more haunting, beautiful and utterly heart breaking. Particularly 2nd movoment lento e largo - tranquillissimo.

i would not advise you to listen to it if you suffer from depression !!!!!

john mayall/peter green- "out of reach",
and the SABBATH version of "changes" . :-/
@ the cottonhouse shakers-what-you can listen to leonard cohen without feeling suicidal??? ;-)

@Viking - Never, in fact totally uplifted....Morrissey too!.

When I first heard Leonard Cohen's greatest hits album I sat open mouthed in awe of a man who (for me) lyrically blew everyone away. I was uplifted but gutted at the same time because at that point I realised that, in the words of David Coverdale, I was "No Billy Shakespeare". I didn't write a another lyric for ten years after that.

@ the cottonhouse shakerrs-as they say"each to their own"? my freya absolutely LOVES cohen. and yes-lyrically excellent, i agree. ;-)

actually there is a few, when my daughter laura was about 2 years, it started raining so me & carole went outside into the back garden to fetch the washing in and closed the patio door behind us, as soon as we shut the patio door Laura came up to the patio door and pushed a little catch down which locked the patio door, we tried to open the door to no avail, I had a very very expensive hifi and 2,000+ albums, most of them very rare and some direct cut masters, laura started taking the records out of the sleeves and dropping them on the floor, before we could get back in the house laura managed to ruin about 20 of my best albums, that made me cry, kids eh lol