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To cry when I hear Silent Night?

63 replies

Harriedharriet · 14/12/2015 16:45

Every bloody time and every bloody year. Yesterday I was at a service where everyone sang it and boom, off I go. I try so hard to control myself. I bite my lip, deep slow breaths, pinch my arm, put my one sharp nail into my flesh at a painful angle, say the alphabet. Nothing works. The tears come. Then I am red faced, sniffling and fairly mortified! 😂I find it so beautiful, so simple and so ? Anyone else?

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Babymamaroon · 14/12/2015 21:03

I absolutely adore carols and always well up. YANBU!!

TimeToMuskUp · 14/12/2015 21:04

I cry at O Holy Night (not the shitey Johnny Mathis one, the proper one). No idea why, no symbolic value to it, it's just beautiful.

Dumbledoresgirl · 14/12/2015 21:14

You are not alone. I was driving along today, singing my head off to Christmas pop songs, when I felt a sudden urge to listen to 3 carols I have on my mp3. The first was one I sang as a solo when I was in nursery school, the next was one I had on a kiddies tape when ds2 was born (just before Christmas) which always made me cry with that huge rush of love you feel when your babies are tiny. The third was a favourite advent hymn from my churchgoing days. By the middle of the third hymn, I was sitting at traffic lights bawling my eyes out.

Silent Night, Once in Royal David's City, O Little Town of Bethlehem, In the Deep Midwinter - they all make me cry, and no, none of those were the 3 hymns I referred to above.

Hell, I cry at Johnny Mathis singing When A Child Is Born. That spoken line in the middle: A child who will grow up and turn tears to laughter, hate to love, war to peace, and everyone to everyone's neighbour. and misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten, forever. [weep]

DramaAlpaca · 14/12/2015 21:18

Same here. Silent Night and O Holy Night get me every time.

I actually welled up in the supermarket last week when O Holy Night was playing Blush.

And yes, Johnny Mathis singing When A Child Is Born. That gets me too.

RiverTam · 14/12/2015 21:22

I was singing along to my carols cd the other day and I started to cry singing The Coventry Carol (for those who don't know it, it's a very beautiful, very melancholic lullaby carol about the slaughter of the children of Israel). Unsurprisingly it's a bit if a tearjerker!

Nodney · 14/12/2015 21:22

And I thought I was alone!

EnthusiasmDisturbed · 14/12/2015 21:38

I struggle to hold the tears back found it impossible at ds carol service and to this version

Happy Xmas (War is Over) also sets me off

thebestfurchinchilla · 14/12/2015 21:53

YANBU I cry at all carols but especially Silent Night and if Ii ever hear 'Little Donkey' I'm gone! Glad it's not just me.

thebestfurchinchilla · 14/12/2015 21:54

Oh Away in a Manger for sure.

urbanturban · 14/12/2015 22:01

I have DDs first school Nativity tomorrow, and I'm an way the snivelling wreck in the corner at school/nursery Nativities.......this thread has reminded me to put tissues in my bag! Grin

Noregretsatall · 14/12/2015 22:23

In The Bleak Midwinter gets me every. Single. Time. It was Mum's favourite Carol and she died earlier this year so it's even more poignant now. The last verse:

If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb,
If I were a wise man, I would do my part,
Yet what can I give him, give my heart.... Choking up now just thinking about it. I find it impossible to sing for this reason.

PedantPending · 14/12/2015 22:34

Silent Night was composed in Austria, just to set the record straight. I have been to the church, where it was composed/first performed.
It is a beautiful, simple carol with sincere emotions.

SaltMarshPirate · 14/12/2015 22:43

Silent Night and Little Donkey reduce me to tears, without fail, whenever I heard them. I am very grateful for this thread as I have, not an hour ago, snivelled in Sainsbury's to Fairytale of New York. I hid by the washing powder aisle.

Brekekekex · 14/12/2015 22:50

My grandmother - ordinarily a tough, no-nonsense woman - would invariably get teary over children singing Little Donkey. Now it's my turn to do it, remembering her.

PawsnPurrs · 15/12/2015 00:49

i always feel emotional at fairytale of newyork

SaltMarshPirate · 15/12/2015 01:19

I kept them with me,babe. I put them with my own. 😭

Redglitter · 15/12/2015 01:40

Away in a Manger gets me every time

TheHouseOnTheLane · 15/12/2015 06:19

Salt Oh God!

That song....hairs stand up!

Worse now Kirsty's gone.

hesterton · 15/12/2015 06:26

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Andrewofgg · 15/12/2015 06:37

Silent Night makes me think of the Christmas Truce in 1914 which began with German soldiers singing Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht - and that's why it reduces me to tears every time.

Bellejournee · 15/12/2015 06:43

Me too, I almost wonder if it's partly a nostalgia type feeling, as in the memories of singing it at school (a very long time ago!)

LaLaLaaaa · 15/12/2015 06:45

O Holy Night does this to me! Tried to sing it to my 4 month old DS the other day and I ended up blabbing

echt · 15/12/2015 06:53

The best. Brings tears to my eyes: secular Jews holding Christmas with an unexpected guest.

Lovely:

LavenderRain · 15/12/2015 07:07

I cry at alot of songs!!
A few days ago Johnny mathis was on the radio in the car singing 'when a child is born' I was bawling Blush
When I was little we sang it in church one year and my lovely dad did the speaking middle part.😭
I also love Silent Night and am welling up thinking about it now.

doublechocchip · 15/12/2015 08:32

Silent Night is lovely was at a christingle on Sunday when they turn off the lights and you can see all the children's faces singing lit by their candles i get very teary.

Absolutely at O Holy Night too.