Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 12:34     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

One that's been getting to me lately is She Don't Love You by Eric Paslay
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2015 23:17     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

Another Auld Lang Syne.

(See what I did there? )
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2015 14:57     Subject: The saddest song of all time

Auld Lang Syne
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2015 12:44     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

Anonymous wrote:
^^Roy Clark! Yesterday when I was young, there were so many songs waiting to be sung...


Yes, another one I used to bawl to. No one should ever leave an 8-year-old alone with a stereo and country records.


Elvis Presley singing "Old Shep" used to make me cry just thinking about it.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2015 11:25     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

Anonymous wrote:He Stopped Loving Her Today has got to be one of the all-time top 3 or 5.


Great pick, probably the greatest country song of all time. George Jones was on of my dad's favorites. You just took me back to riding with him, listening to country music on the AM radio.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2015 22:11     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

^^Roy Clark! Yesterday when I was young, there were so many songs waiting to be sung...


Yes, another one I used to bawl to. No one should ever leave an 8-year-old alone with a stereo and country records.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2015 22:10     Subject: The saddest song of all time

Ray Price "Make Believe you Love me One More Time "
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2015 22:09     Subject: The saddest song of all time

Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2015 22:07     Subject: The saddest song of all time

^^Roy Clark! Yesterday when I was young, there were so many songs waiting to be sung...
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2015 21:11     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

Anonymous wrote:
Im So Lonesome I Could Die by Hank Williams. He stopped loving Her Today by George Jones is a close second

So Lonesome Hank could Cry, not Die.
Those country guys can pour it on.


Yep. He Stopped Loving Her Today has got to be one of the all-time top 3 or 5.
By the Time I Get to Phoenix is pretty bad.
Local hero Roy Clark had some family-leaving songs. I heard "Right or Left at Oak Street" when I was about 8 and just sat down and bawled. Same with "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast," even though he turned around at the end.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2015 20:36     Subject: The saddest song of all time

Diary - Bread
Crying - Roy Orbison & k.d. Lang
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2015 17:12     Subject: The saddest song of all time

Out Here on My Own by Irene Cara
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2015 16:30     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

All Songs Considered just did a show on this (great PodCast, btw):

http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2015/05/19/406500138/the-songs-that-make-us-cry

Anonymous
Post 06/08/2015 15:50     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:For the regretful, self-loathing point of view, Keith Urban's version of (aptly titled) Stupid Boy is raw emotion.

I was going to add I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt too.


Me too. I cannot hear this song without crying. We went to see Boyz II Men at the Birchmere a few years ago and they covered it and I even cried THEN.
Anonymous
Post 06/08/2015 14:35     Subject: Re:The saddest song of all time

I have to give some love to Fred Eaglesmith-

Bailin' Again
Small Motors
John Deere B