Country music! Gene Waston Farewell Party , Old Violin, Long black Veal, Time marches on, Today I started Loving you again - Merle Haggard. tom dooley, Ira hayes - J. Cash. Gene Waston Farewell Party about woman he loves, but in his mind she can't wait for his to pass.

Just My Imagination by temps.....

The very best

Hank Williams, I can't help it if I am still in love with you

Today I passed you on the street
And my heart fell at your feet
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you

Somebody else stood by your side
And he looked so satisfied
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you

A picture from the past came slowly stealin'
As I brushed your arm and walked so close to you
The-en suddenly I got that old-time feelin'
I can't help it if I'm still in love with you (still in love with you)


My number two.

Just walk on by from Jim Reeves

If I see you tomorrow on some street in town Pardon me if I don't say hello
I belong to another, it wouldn't look so good
To know someone I'm not suppose to know
Just walk on by, wait on the corner
I love you but we're strangers when we meet.

In a dimly lit corner, at a place outside of town.
Tonight we'll try to say goodbye again.
But I know it's not over, I'll call tomorrow night
I can't let you go so why pretend.

Just walk on by, wait on the corner
I love you but we're strangers when we meet.

And Number 3

Solitary Man by Neil Diamond

[quote=kittygilchrist;676698]Do you hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to cry
that means he's lost the will to live,
I'm so lonesome I could die.




It's a looooong way from Beethoven, but that is exactly the song I was thinking of. It's not just the words but the way Hank sings it.

That reminds me of riding in a packed car going to the beach as I sang along with the radio.....
I was singing in all my glory "Freak out in the Garden"
and was corrected that the song said
"Reach out of the Darkness" by duo Friend and Lover

still chuckle about it

Many of the Country Songs Are Sad
 

Here are some from two great country singers. GEORGE JONES - Grand Tour, A Picture of Me (without you), The Window Up Above, He Stopped Loving Her Today, Things Have Gone to Pieces JIM REEVES - The Blizzard, Just Call Me Lonesome, the Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, The Letter Edged in Black, the Wreck of Number Nine. There is one another sad song but can't remember the title. If I remember it, I'll post again.

"I'm not in love" by 10cc would get my vote. Year: 1975

There have been many different interpretations of what the lyrics mean, but I think the song speaks the story of a guy who is so in love but refuses to come to terms with it. Pretty dang sad.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgepWg4rzw[/ame]

This is not a sad song - it's a song of redemption from sadness...but, a story first. Bruce played Chicago the year I was getting married to Kay. For a lark, I took a wedding invitation...I and wrote a note...offering to pay the E Street Band $50 per (plus an extra $50 for Clarence if he he'd sing Fire) ... as a warning to Bruce I wrote that playing the wedding circuit was the insurance few musicians
could do without. Bruce got the note and read it to the audience..laughing though most of it and then offered up Little Girl I Wanna Marry you to Kay and me.

I have a bootleg of the show who put it online to get it to me. I played it for my son Sam a few weeks ago. He was amazed.

I thought that was the end of story...kinda cute...a good memory. But a couple of years later Kay and I met Max - Bruce's drummer. I wasn't gonna say anything...but, Kay told the story. Max came and hugged me and said it was a fav memory of the tour. He asked if I was seeing the show that night...and I said we were...right in the 5th row. Max said write another note so I did. The main set gets completed and no mention - which was OK. Come the encore...Bruce points at us directly ((I still wonder how he knew) and said this is for Kay and Gary Brown...my best fans. Then launched into Jungleland. By the end I was crying like a baby.

I've been lucky to hang with lots of musicians..many you don't know..but some you do. The Eagles took me out for my first official drink on my 21st. Made out with Joni. Hung with Chris Hynde in London. Hung with the Mac.

But that encore...it was magic. It made life special.

Though I can't be in a room with my ex-wife without a fight breaking out...we had a bunch of bloody great adventures and she was essential. I miss what was.

This a song of redemption. It's Land of Hopes and Dreams.

Grab your ticket and your suitcase
Thunder's rolling down the tracks
You don't know where you're goin'
But you know you won't be back
Darlin' if you're weary
Lay your head upon my chest
We'll take what we can carry
And we'll leave the rest

Big Wheels rolling through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

I will provide for you
And I'll stand by your side
You'll need a good companion for
This part of the ride
Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there'll be sunshine
And all this darkness past

Big wheels roll through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

This train
Carries saints and sinners
This train
Carries losers and winners
This Train
Carries whores and gamblers
This Train
Carries lost souls
This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'
This Train
Carries broken-hearted
This Train
Thieves and sweet souls departed
This Train
Carries fools and kings
This Train
All aboard

This Train
Dreams will not be thwarted
This Train
Faith will be rewarded
This Train
Hear the steel wheels singin'
This Train
Bells of freedom ringin'

[quote=CFrance;678591]I do have the sunflowers popping up all over my garden area! and I'm still loving the elderly faces of the ones you gave me. It's an intergenerational event.
Kitty, ever grateful,

ruhroh, I went off topic about gardening.
Sun sun sun, Beatles. Is that a sad song or a cure?
Kitty

Softly,

Softly, I will leave you, softly. Haunting by Elvis

Parker took my answer, so:
Cats in the Cradle, Harry Chapin
Bookends, Simon & Garfunkel
America, Simon & Garfunkel
Nights in White Satin, The Moody Blues
While My Guitar Gently Weeps, George Harrison

Are you referring to "Old Friends"? The lyrics have been with me for so long. "preserve your memories, they're all that's left you". :doh:

Those lyrics are from the song Bookends. I know my Simon & Garfunkel. " Time it was, and what a time it was..."

No biggie but the album is Bookends, the song is "old friends".

Also no biggie, but see here SIMON & GARFUNKEL lyrics

Old Friends is a different song than Bookends. They are both on the album Bookends. I can't remember for sure, but the song Bookends might start right where Old Friends leaves off? I have the boxed set somewhere...

I also think The Boxer is a sad song.

The saddest song to me was "Mama" by BJ Thomas especially after my mother passed away. Just thinking about it while I type this brings tears to my eyes.

OK...:wave:

Side 1 of Bookends
1. "Bookends Theme" *
2. "Save the Life of My Child" *
3. "America" *
4. "Overs" *
5. "Voices of Old People"
6. "Old Friends" *
7. "Bookends" *

Many songs listed here have brought back tearful memories from hearing them on the radio growing up.

I was a bit surprised about the revulsion to the, dare I say, lovely song, Honey. Love and loss of such extraordinary depth deserve our humble acknowledgement and respect. It reminds me of another, to me, hauntingly sad song that I suspect might be met with similar hostility. Remember, "Seasons in the Sun," by Terry Jacks? Tried to link a YouTube video, but for some reason, the link kept not showing in my post.

Indeed. Thanks for the reminder.

Lush Life Johnny Hartman

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILDqWHutba0]Johnny Hartman sings Lush Life - YouTube[/ame]

Can't believe that no one has mentioned "CRYING " by Roy Orbison......

But my favorite is " SOMEONE'S ROCKING MY DREAMBOAT " Ink Spots ....

Fumar the tasteful ...:plane:

I will try to put the link for you. Although, the only thing I find sad about this song is that it was a hit.:sing:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQ13geD2OA]Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun - YouTube[/ame]

Oh, geeze, "America." There's another sad one.

Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh,
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why.

Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike
They've all come to look for America.
(I may have that not entirely right)

sigh. they were so good.

Nothwithstanding Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel had the most meaningful, thoughtful, genius lyrics. :BigApplause:

I hear that train acomin'
it's comin' round the bend,
and I ain't seen the sunshine
since....I don't know when...

Hunky Dude, my company's gone...

Another vote for "The Way We Were"

Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is"....then let's keep dancing let's break out the booze..........................................

As an alternate "The Purple People Eater". It was a one eye...............

[QUOTE=rubicon;686856]Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is"....then let's keep dancing let's break out the booze..........................................

A great song and an even more important life question.

Tim McGraw's "My Best Friend". After having to put my 13 year old lab to sleep, I got into the car and this song came on the radio. I couldn't drive for an hour.

Clarence Carter "Patches". I was going through air traffic controller school at Ft. Rucker, Alabama in the summer of 1970 and on the weekends we all would go down to Panama City Beach. That was a 2 hour drive and as soon as we could pick up an AM radio station from the beach I would listen for Patches.

Clarence Carter - Patches - YouTube

Clarence Carter - Patches - Live

Here are three songs that will make you think a litttle, especially if you relate to them like I do.

1. Cat's In The Cradle - Harry Chapin (1974)
2. Don't Cry Daddy - Elvis Presley (1969)
3. Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton (1972)

Off topic sorry!
 

Off topic, I guess, but this reminds me of the kindergarten teacher who had her pupils drawing pictures based on “Silent Night” just before Christmas (back in the day…). One little guy managed a pretty literal picture of Joseph, Mary, Baby Jesus, Three Wise Men, and various animals. However, in one corner he had drawn a short, fat man watching Joseph, Mary, and Baby Jesus. “Who is that supposed to be?” the teacher asked the little boy. He responded, a little indignant, “Don’t you know? That’s Round John Virgin!”

(Uh oh, what am I doing here?)

One more vote for "barf" for Honey.

"400 children and I can't cop a feel"

LMAO!! I assume you know that it's "Four hungry children and a crop in the field".

Every single song mentioned above is wonderfully sad and filled with emotion.....

Also:
September Song or "Autumn Leaves Drift By My Window".............

Actually it's "Four hongry children and a crop in the field." Ignore the misspelling; this is country music!

Lots of good ones here. Elvis "Old Shep" and George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today" among the all-time best.
You might give a listen to Dolly Parton doing "Me and Little Andy" and Sarah Brightman's "The First of May."
Play these four songs in a row and ruin your whole evening.
Walt.