What makes you emotional?

Oh I love "country music" Grannyknot even though some of the lyrics are very depressing indeed. Some times a good cry makes me feel better!

Glad you liked Josh Groban. I agree he sings it beautifully.

We played Time in a bottle by Jim Croche at my late husbands funeral. My daughter and I felt the words said everything we felt on that day. I still can't listen to it without bursting into floods of tears.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM&feature=kp

Music wise - Scarlet Ribbons by Harry Belafonte always gets me blubbing.

So much music mentioned on here, I'll walk with God, Albinoni, Honey, Scarlet ribbons.
I love Mario Lanza, such a beautiful voice, but the piece that gets me most is the Bruch violin concerto. It is so poignant.

Films also make me emotional, but can I think of one......................no!

The bit near the end of Titanic, and the hymn Abide with Me for starters...many more!

gilly we'd make a good pair. I love Jim Croce too... "^I'll have to say I love you in a song^. Lovely.

Oops I tried to put that in italics and failed.

That must have been beautiful at your husband's funeral. My friend had Elvis' You Were Always on My Mind played at her husband's... cue floods of tears. Music maketh man.

Moon River, and Stranger on the Shore by Aker Bilk.

Also Groovin' by the Young Rascals.

I'm all choked-up reading these posts!

I'v always feel very emotional on remembrance sunday. All those brave now very elderly (mostly) men remembering their fallen mates and all the horror they endured. They march past ram rod straight. Heads up, eyes forward. I weep buckets and buckets. Bless em and the sacrifice they made for us

I find the older I get, the less things seem to move me to tears but one song will, every time but it's because it's so close to how I feel. I have left this on a clip to be played to my son and eldest granddaughter when I have finally stepped off this merry-go-round to let them know, finally, just how important they were (I would never tell them exactly how I feel, way too depressing for them) and how their very presence in my life helped so much; it's The Carpenters 'Won't Last A Day'

Day after day, I must face a world of strangers
Where I don't belong, I'm not that strong
It's nice to know that there's someone I can turn to
Who will always care, you're always there

When there's no gettin' over that rainbow
When my smallest of dreams won't come true
I can take all the madness the world has to give
But I won't last a day without you

So many times when the city seems to be
Without a friendly face, a lonely place
It's nice to know that you'll be there if I need you
And you'll always smile, it's all worthwhile

If all my friends have forgotten half their promises they're not unkind, just
Hard to find
One look at you and I know
That I must learn to live without the rest
I've found the best

Such a beautiful song sung by the wonderful Karen Carpenter. Right, I'm off to dry my eyes again now

Oops, meant to put a link for those who haven't heard it or those who like it also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GWThwGj8qM

Karen Carpenter was wonderful, several of her songs I associate with meeting my husband, eg "It's only just begun".
I have the same tendency to weep with certain kinds of music, but I still have some guilt about not weeping when my parents died. I loved them both very much. Dad died first, suddenly, and then I was able to spend the last 10 years of Mum's life near her. We were very close.
So why did I only shed a few tears?

So why did I only shed a few tears?

It's strange isn't it when that happens. When my Dad died, I bawled my eyes out at the crematorium (I was around 36 years old) and when my Nan died (I would have been about 12 years old) I became hysterical at graveside. Other deaths of people I have loved have saddened me, the odd tear or two but nothing on that scale. Maybe over the years we become 'hardened' - it's the only thing I can think of.

Off the top,of my head Lona, Bette Midler's film, Beaches?

Oh Yes!! That's a real weepy. Thanks

Holly - I think you are right re 'hardened'. I say to my DH it's as though I have become immune. I am 64, and have had so many relatives and friends die (young and old) and other horrible life experiences, I now feel as though I am becoming almost immune to tears. Yet I can cry over a stranger that I didn't even know. I have a friend who has had some awful things happen. She always says 'I can't squeeze any more tears out'.

in the 70s I was reduced to tears - of laughter - by Barefoot in the Park with Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. I did well up at Love Story and Steel Magnolias.

Marching. If it includes a band then the emotion rises almost immediately. I find it hard to watch the Remembrance Event at the Royal Albert Hall. Tears came when I watched the fly past after the Trooping of the Colour ceremony as well. I feel a right idiot and say its the sun making my eyes water. Luckily I've not been on a dull day!!!

Pipe Bands. Especially The Dark Island.

Grannyknot, I was in Durham today, and a man called Jack Foley was singing Music of the Night, and I started crying while watching him.
I bought the CD. He is collecting for Cancer Research.
He is the son of a Durham miner.

The Band of the Royal Marines playing Sunset always makes me cry. I only have to hear the opening bars.

Memories of a military childhood and it was played at my father's funeral.

I listened to the first 4 lines of the small boy rapping about bullying and how it affected him on BGT. I had to leave the room and found myself sobbing in the kitchen. My DH came in also with tears in his eyes and said 'It never goes away does it' My lovely son was so severely bullied and the thought of him waking up every day to go to the torture of school with no friends still breaks my heart even though we found Red Balloon and changed everything.

Separated at birth Grannknot (well musically anyway) we obviously share the same taste.

My sister was telling me about the boy rapper on BGT Flower I don't particularly like rap music but apparently the words were very emotionally charged. Good for him raising awareness in this way.

"You Are My Sunshine"

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey
You never know, dear, how much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away

The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping
I dreamt I held you in my arms
When I awoke, dear, I was mistaken
So I hung my head, and I cried

Aka

Children singing - does for me every time. I'm hopeless at school concerts.