songs that make you shiver/cry

[Two Types]

'Every Time We say Goodbye'.

Myself and my sister were in my parents house looking for music to play at their funeral. She picked up the CD, suggested it (Mum always loved that song) and we knew immediately that it was perfect. As soon as she said the title i started to cry.
It was played as we carried their coffins into church (strangely, i didn't cry as I heard it that time).
A week later, I sat in the pub chatting to a friend about the funeral. He asked about the music and I told him what we played. He started to recite the lyrics and he started to cry. That got me started as well.
I'll never hear it again without shedding a tear.

P.S. The coffins left the church to the sound of 'Somewhere' from West Side Story. That's another one that always gets me going.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

The most powerful version of this song I've ever heard. Vince and Patty performed this at George Jones' funeral, today.

I never thought much of Vince Gill, but have obviously sold him short, in the past. Amazing.

 

[Warden]

It is not a golden era track, but Cat Stevens / Yusaf Islam song ‘Father & Son' always brings me literally to tears.

When my son was one he became very ill and we were told he was not expected to last the night. Thankfully he got through the night and is now a wonderful 6 year old boy. These lyrics are the sort of advice I dreamt as a father I would tell my son in older life, listening to the song makes me realise how close I came to this dream not happening.

[video=youtube_share;nG-TUyMW9Qs]http://youtu.be/nG-TUyMW9Qs[/video]

 

[MarkJohn]

It is not a golden era track, but Cat Stevens / Yusaf Islam song ‘Father & Son' always brings me literally to tears.

When my son was one he became very ill and we were told he was not expected to last the night. Thankfully he got through the night and is now a wonderful 6 year old boy. These lyrics are the sort of advice I dreamt as a father I would tell my son in older life, listening to the song makes me realise how close I came to this dream not happening.

What an awful experience, but at least it had a happy outcome... I'm so glad the medical profession gets things wrong sometimes, particularly when they say things with such certainly about someone’s prognosis.

Having kids is such a worry at times.

...and that is a very touching song.

There are a few songs that will reduce me to a quivering wreck, but there was a particular instrumental track by a group called Iona that I found so heart wrenching I could hardly bear to listen too it... I don't recall the name of it right now, but it featured a solo on the Irish uilleann pipes, the sound of which taps directly into my soul.

 

[Warden]

Thanks MarkJohn, it was a time I'll never forget, but hey he is now a great little chap, who sounds like he is annoying his sister right now, so I'll have to go and become a United Nations peacemaker

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Cledus Maggard -- One Small Pearl (1976)

[video=youtube;iRq2dXjhH7E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRq2dXjhH7E[/video]

In Ward 3, Maternity, he stood there weeping
With his good wife gone, a daughter in her place
Then that night he left the baby warm and sleeping
At a doorstep with some words on dime store lace

So she was to stay, her tender years protected
An orphan searching for a loving face
And each day she watched the window and expected
Someone who'd read her legacy of lace

Here's one small pearl in a troubled ocean
One baby girl from God above
Shine her gently with deep devotion
And she'll glow forever with the light of love

At twenty-one, through with orphan living
She took a bus as far as she could go
Went to school to learn the art of giving
With a lonely boy she'd known an hour or so

They were married by a justice after hours
But the years of pain were gone without a trace
And she clutched a small bouquet of plastic flowers
And gave her love a ring of dime store lace

Here's one small pearl in a troubled ocean
One baby girl from God above
Shine her gently with deep devotion
And she'll glow forever with the light of love

Three lonely boys she married left her hurting
For a dollar you can buy her tattered grace
She views life through a faded hotel curtain
From the window floats an ageing piece of lace

The county closed her grave with no one grieving
A cross with just her name to mark the space
And they still don't know who had some cause for leaving
These words upon a bit of marbled lace

Here's one small pearl in a troubled ocean
One baby girl from God above
Shine her gently with deep devotion
And she'll glow forever with the light of love

 

[alsendk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQH6qu2pHT8

Father and son
Peter Gabriel

 

[cchgn]

Break it to me gently- Juice Newton
[video=youtube;uLNYWDxCuRI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLNYWDxCuRI[/video]

 

[cchgn]

The Living Years- Mike and the Mechanics

[video=youtube;uGDA0Hecw1k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Slim Dusty -- Kokoda Trail

[video=youtube;BHhWv5zVzP0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHhWv5zVzP0[/video]

 

[GHT]

I too, was at a funeral today. My aunt, she married my uncle in 1958, I remember her wedding so clearly. For the sake of my cousins, I did my best to hold it together, until the coffin slid from view, to the strains of:
"If Tomorrow Never Comes."

 

[dh66]

Hank Williams "six more miles to the graveyard" and Son House "death letter", among others.

Sorry to hear about your aunt GHT. It's good to see you posting though.
Been awhile.

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[cchgn]

Christmas Shoes
[video=youtube;1i9G60wvH7Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9G60wvH7Y[/video]

 

[Stearmen]

[video=youtube;aVE5d2PLWP0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVE5d2PLWP0[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Maria Graña -- Caseron De Tejas
(House of Tiles)
written in 1942

(A very loose translation but I think it captures the essence of the original lyrics)

Our neighborhood in Belgrano*
The big old house with the tile roof
Sister, do you remember?
The warm nights on the sidewalk?
When the passing trains
Gave us an old and strange nostalgia
Under the soft warmth of the roses

Everything was so simple
As clear as the sky
Like the bedtime stories
That Grandpa used to tell us
While a tender waltz
Flowed from the little piano
In the shaded parlor

Let's return! Let's return!
To the dreamy songs of the piano
With an enchanting wave of your hand
Grandpa's coat tail will appear again
Call him! Call him!
We shall live the charming fairy tales
In that big old house in Belgrano
And turn back the clock
Mama calls us

Brother, your smile
Takes away my sadness
And like the bedtime stories
That Grandpa told us
The little piano in the shaded parlor
Will come back
With its pure tender waltzes

*a suburb of Buenos Aires

 

[Fading Fast]

Practically any version, here are two I enjoy:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Practically any version, here are two I enjoy:

Alessandro Moreschi -- Ave Maria (1902)

 

[vitanola]

Alessandro Moreschi -- Ave Maria (1902)

I find the eerie bleat of Moresci's voice to be rather disquieting, though the recording is of great historical importance.

Bonci is more to my taste, but the (thankfully common) Kreisler/Mccormack waxing has always been my favorite.

 

[Fading Fast]

I find the eerie bleat of Moresci's voice to be rather disquieting, though the recording is of great historical importance.....

I, too, found it more interesting than enjoyable.