Songs that make you teary

Grandyma

Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor takes me straight back to the days & weeks following my mum’s very sudden death in 2001 😢

Sinead was singing about her own mum in the video, and that tear dripping down her beautiful face was real.

These pieces of music make me feel tearful and emotional not sure why.

Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
O Mio Babbino Caro- Puccini
Somewhere in Time theme John Barry
Love duet Madame Butterfly - Puccini
The Living Years - Mike and The Mechanics
So Long Marianne Leonard Cohen
Another for Chasing Cars
Away in a Manger (sung by 4 and 5 year olds)

Serendipity22

Mama by Ill Divo

Oh I hope they aren’t - ill I mean!

youtu.be/Utm4T6lT7pE?si=SYi72U2H7R8sux6B

“Sailing By” by Ronald Bynge aka the Shipping Forecast music.
I used to try to get to sleep when DH was in hospital and after he died, by listening to the Shipping Forecast.
The music now can hit me in the solar plexus and reduce me to a snivelling wreck within seconds.
I can’t explain the physical pain I feel which passes after the music has ended, but it is very real.

Victoria Shaw singing “Never Alone”

youtu.be/nsZmwhVZqwY?si=ImaaOBCUIn1wbCq0

Ralph Mctell’s beatiful song ‘Naomi’
Beth Nielsen Chapman ‘sand and water’

Crying - Roy Orbison

Going Home- Sissel.

Goin’ Back- Dusty Springfield.

I Am Australian- The Seekers. (This should be the Aussie National Anthem).

Softly As I Leave You- Matt Monro.

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face- Roberta Flack.

When You Were Sweet Sixteen- The Furies with Davey Arthur.

And so many more…

Over the rainbow .....Eva Cassidy
The folks who live in the hill ....Peggy Lee
Unchained melody .... Righteous brothers
In dreams .....Roy Orbison

Chestnut

nanna8 my mother was 100% North/Mid Wales (DNA verified) so I am 50%. So here is another to make you cry and this will really get you going!

Dafydd Iwan belts out Yma o Hyd before Wales vs Austria!

And if you want the translation and meaning here it is:
Dafydd Iwan sings Yma o Hyd with lyrics and English translation

Cue more sobbing!

Thanks Chestnut. I’ve only got 17 % of lovely Welsh but I am very proud of it. My great grandma was 100%, lived there all her life.

This does it every time.

youtu.be/FF1_ZST48Gg?si=4eoxyax_nJwspFw7

Dougie McLean singing Caledonia is another that never fails to make me cry

Casdon

Remembering our lovely late Gransnet friend Lucca, who loved everything Italian, this is so beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDiKwbGfIY

Oh Casdon that was sublime! I've never seen that video before. I'm half Italian, so it really touched me 😥
As an aside, how bloody gorgeous are Andre's sons! 🤩🤩🤩

Oh Casdon that's so lovely- thank you . I am one quarter Italian and have an old lady crush on Andreo Bocelli ( sigh)..

Waterloo sunset by the Kinks, to name just one, I used to hang around trafalgar square and surrounds in my early teens with my mates, sadly all left this earth but songs from this time bring back memories of them,can't believe time went so quickly

Apart from several of the above, the BBC music for the London Marathon moves me, and I don't really know why!

Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O’Connor takes me straight back to the days & weeks following my mum’s very sudden death in 2001 😢

Matt Munro - Softly.

Nice thought Casdon.

The Gaelic song 'An Ataireachd Ard' (The High Swell of the Sea) was performed by the group 'Capercaillie'' as part of the soundtrack of a TV series some years ago. I listen to it and sing along, but seldom get beyond the first verse without weeping tears in remembrance of my childhood. You can still find it on YouTube.

Remembering our lovely late Gransnet friend Lucca, who loved everything Italian, this is so beautiful.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDiKwbGfIY

Go Now - Moody Blues.

Lots of songs make me cry but when I hear Land of our Fathers it reminds me of my Welsh mum so I cry.

Also my husbands favourites that were played at his funeral My Life by The Beatles and Forever Young by Bob Dylan upset me.

And many years ago I was in hospital having had a miscarriage at 12 weeks and waiting a D&C by husband requested the hospital radio played for me I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder, I sobbed that night and still get upset whenever I hear it.

Kate1949

I didn't know that suep. I will look it up.

My mom loved Scarlet Ribbons.

My mum loved Scarlet Ribbons too.
Andy Williams singing Moon River and Telstar by the Tornados both make me teary. I've no idea why but they've had that effect on me since I first heard them when I was about 7 years old.

Just one for me Luther Vandross ‘Dance with my father’

Fix you by coldplay.