The song that gets me every time, and is still very special to me even 30 years after my Fathers death is "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. Here it is..
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bwahah! good one Cyndy!
My flowers are fading, but the cheer of your giving them to me shines on.
Kitty

OMG - YES!

WOW, I forgot about that one. I can't even listen to it. My wife would die if she heard it.

[QUOTE=kittygilchrist;678564]bwahah! good one Cyndy!
My flowers are fading, but the cheer of your giving them to me shines on.
Kitty[/QUOTE
Thank you, Kitty! Hopefully the ones you planted will be able to refill soon :coolsmiley:

Your right gatherer47, I forgot about Old Shep.

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,