Has a song ever pulled a tear from your eye?

Dave Birkett · Post by **Dave Birkett** » 12 Dec 2002 5:28 pm

Una Furtiva Lagrima

Bruce Wutzke · Post by **Bruce Wutzke** » 12 Dec 2002 5:41 pm

Faron's "This Little Girl Of Mine"
My daughter and I were really close....then divorce. Thank the Lord she is a beautiful lady today with her own family, and we are close again.

Bobby Snell · Post by **Bobby Snell** » 12 Dec 2002 5:41 pm

Opera usually does it for me.

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 12 Dec 2002 7:36 pm

Well I don't get that touched by a lot of the worn out stuff I play, but a kid named Steve Wiggins, Susan Raye's son sat in with our beer joint band one sunday at a jam. I'd played with him quite a few times before that. Things had gotten down to cab driving for him, and I knew he was having "girl friend" trouble, I guess, but he was talkative enough.

Anyhow, he wanted to sing "Farewell Party". I turned my reverb up to 11, shivered the bar as much as was humanly possible, and just for the hell of it I took an extra instrumental.

I guess it was the next night, he went over to his girlfriend's house while she was gone on vacation, took a handful of valium took off all his clothes, went out in the car, started it up in the garage, held the bible on his chest and "checked out".

I don't really think it was my playing. He was headed that direction anyhow.

Regardless, I put another notch on the old Pro III. Actually the only one so far..

EJL

Perry Hansen · Post by **Perry Hansen** » 12 Dec 2002 7:38 pm

I get teary eyed every time some rocker dude tries to sing a country song. Course I get teary eyed every time I barf.

R. L. Jones · Post by **R. L. Jones** » 13 Dec 2002 7:25 am

Dig out your old "Hank Williams" songs , play "The First Fall of Snow" ,

I lost a darling Grand baby, Tragically, I have these songs ,havent played them for a very long time ,May never play that one again.

Ole Hank has lots of those ,we call tear jerkers, Some are downright "Heart Breakers

R. L.

Kerry Wood · Post by **Kerry Wood** » 13 Dec 2002 3:59 pm

"Patches" by Clarence Carter tears me up every time, no matter where I am. This usually results in great laughter by those around me.

Kerry Wood

Don LaCourse · Post by **Don LaCourse** » 13 Dec 2002 4:44 pm

Little toy telephone, Johnny Bush.
Think i'll go some where and cry my self to sleep. Jack Green.
Air mail to Heaven,Carl Smith.

Milton C. Willmann · Post by **Milton C. Willmann** » 13 Dec 2002 5:16 pm

The Roads of Daddy's Dreams, Darrell McCall, Randy's Rodeo about a month after his Dad passed away.

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 13 Dec 2002 6:27 pm

Paul McCartney, "The Long and Winding Road" and "The End", on the new DVD "Back in the U.S.". That sappy orchestral stuff really gets me sometimes.

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Steve Hinson · Post by **Steve Hinson** » 13 Dec 2002 6:34 pm

Ray Charles singing"Georgia on my Mind"...

Jimmy Dale · Post by **Jimmy Dale** » 13 Dec 2002 8:50 pm

Two songs for me are, and have always been, Jimmy Dean's Sleeping Beauty, And Geo. Jones' Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes. However, I must say that when I pulled out my copy of Buddy's Christmas LP last night and just sit and listened to it by myself, the tears welled up as tho I had never heard it before. I agree with Buddy on the tone of that record. For me, the very best I ever heard. Jim Miller I'D RATHER BE STEELIN'

Butch Foster · Post by **Butch Foster** » 15 Dec 2002 6:09 pm

Many of Red Sovine's recitations. es[ecially the one about what a Dad is, Little Rosa, the one he covered from C.W. McCall, Roses For Mama, and a holiday cut, Faith In Santa.

David Cobb · Post by **David Cobb** » 15 Dec 2002 9:16 pm

Yeah, The Possum singing,"Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes". And before that, some guy playing at the ISGC on amateur night back about 1995. If I had just gotten his name and the tune he did, it was terrific, flawless execution. I had my lady friend along and I tried not to let her see me choking up. Thank God and Kleenex. Apparently it wasn't grabbing her the same way.

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 16 Dec 2002 7:01 am

Jo Stafford singing Shenandoah breaks my heart every time I can't hear it without tearing up.

The Sea Shanty band "Schooner Fare" released a medley that included "Georgie Girl". Besides the irony of their flat earnest performance they go for tight harmony singing and miss completely. It brings tears of laughter.
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J W Hock · Post by **J W Hock** » 16 Dec 2002 9:21 am

Jeanie's Afraid of the Dark - Dolly and Porter

Eric West · Post by **Eric West** » 16 Dec 2002 11:52 am

The King is Gone, and so are you.

George Jones.

Johan Jansen · Post by **Johan Jansen** » 16 Dec 2002 12:27 pm

Joe Wright playing the song for his mother....
That hurts...
JJ

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seldomfed · Post by **seldomfed** » 16 Dec 2002 3:09 pm

pick up some Johnsmith CD's!

"From His Window" - That song about his dad in the nursing home will do it

He's an excellent songwriter! Sorry no steel - a little dobro here and there. You may not hear him on the radio! Songs from the heart that are more real and refreshing than most anything I hear on c&w radio.
http://www.johnsmithmusic.com/

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Ben Lawson · Post by **Ben Lawson** » 16 Dec 2002 6:43 pm

"The Deepening Snow" by Connie Smith

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 16 Dec 2002 6:46 pm

Good choice, Johan.
The song is "Why Me Lord" .

Bill Ford · Post by **Bill Ford** » 16 Dec 2002 7:39 pm

Thanksgiving morning,we had recieved news that a dear aunt had passed away,she had lost her husband 3 months earlier,both devout christians.
I was enroute to assist my family with the days events.It was one of "those" days.
I had to have something cheerfull,put Paul Franklins Christmas CD on,turned the volume up,first track,
Joy To The World the Lord has come,that was when I had to stop side of the road,sat there crying and laughing thinking,how true.
Guess the people passing by thought I was crazy.(I am sorta)
Thanks Paul for such an uplifting version of Joy To The World

BF

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Eddie Lange · Post by **Eddie Lange** » 16 Dec 2002 9:33 pm

The Brothers and Mobile Bay(Magnolia Blossoms) off the Jones/Haggard Yesterday's Wine album.

Ron Page · Post by **Ron Page** » 17 Dec 2002 9:04 am

Knowing the circumstances and the having met Dale Watson makes the entire "Every Song I Write Is For You" CD a tear jerker. I can only imagine what it does for people who have gone through what he did.

The tune that gets me the most is probably not really the saddest song on the album. It's "Hey Chico". I think what gets me is the woman's voice saying that tag line. It's very surrealistic to me.

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Bob Shilling · Post by **Bob Shilling** » 17 Dec 2002 11:55 am

Another one I had forgotten about. Haven't heard it in years. "Country Bumpkin" by Cal Smith.

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