Probably the greatest sad song

[andy-hughes]

ever written?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7THaldFHQQ

[ChuckFickens]

I can't watch that at the moment, but I'll throw this in for consideration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0

[dotty.]

yes possibly,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h35OZs0Aej8

[Bobbisox]

cheesey but sad,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g

[andy-hughes]

With you there Chuck - saw EC perform it live on the BBC when he said it was written about his son - I cried buckets!

[anneasquith]

chuck, giving the circumstances surrounding this eric clapton song, it is soooooo sad.

[dotty.]

: (

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mua1j9e7aoM

[MarkRae]

Peter Hammill - Been Alone So Long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMi5CaSomy8

[BestisBest]

I'd go with Honey by Bobby Goldsboro although its almost funny....in a sick sort of way....

[Bbbananas]

Talking of that song hw, I went to the funeral last year of my son's best mate - a 27 year old lad who had died in a building site accident where he had broken his neck & a wheelbarrow of bricks had crused his aorta.
At his funeral they played "Tell Laura I Love Her" - his fiancee was called Laura. The whole church broke down.

[dotty.]

Ironically it was Ricky Valance.

[mazie]

This one always upsets the old man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k

[Ric.ror]

Strange but I saw the Gordan Lightfoot track on something recently -

[dotty.]

Bobby Russell wrote Honey after his wife died, he also wrote Watching Scotty Grow. he died young himself as I recall,

[Bobbisox]

Ricky Valance headwreck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVi3xhVL4DM

[ChuckFickens]

I think it's the circumstanses that lead to tears in heaven that makes it such a sad song. Without knowing the background it's still an amazing bit of music but nowhere near as poignant.

Trigger.... I think warrior's dance is a lot more melancholy than firestarter :)

[Bobbisox]

I didn't know that dotty...got goosebumps now

[Ric.ror]

I have just read your post Salla - I am in tears myself now