To ask what songs make you cry?

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I've got loads. Some played at DC's funeral

Eva Cassidy - Songbird
Fields of Gold
Somewhere over the rainbow

Kate Bush - Running up that Hill, Kate Bush - Woman's work

Pretenders - Stand by you

Sia - Alive

Amazing Grace, bagpipes

So many

Why - Annie Lennox
Snow patrol- you could be happy
Beach Boys- god only knows
Song bird - fleetwood mac version
Eric Clapton- tears in heaven
Queen - days of our lives

Mrs Magic by Strawberry

Sorry that should say Strawberry Guy sent too soon!

Time after time - Eva Cassidy
Somewhere over the rainbow / what a wonderful world - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
Dance with my father - Luther Vandross
Dreams - The Cranberries
He lives in you - The Lion King musical

In dreams - Roy Orbison
Unchained melody - Righteous Brothers

Ooooh this is awesome thread. Not been all the way through yet, I'm sure I'll be further inspired and come back with more I've got so many, my top 5 off top of my head

Amoureuse - Kiki Dee "I should have told him
I'd do anything if I could hold him
For just another day, for just another day
His love is something I will not forget"

Bell bottom tear - The Beautiful South
Cover from the sky - Deacon Blue
Beth - Kiss
Lover - Taylor Swift

Can't help falling in love - Johnny Cash. Its haunting

I cry a lot at books, movies, TV shows and even TV ads, but I don’t think I have ever cried at a song…

Zion - Lauryn hill

My House- Lashana Lynch from the new Netflix Matilda musical 😰 good lord!

Fix You - Coldplay
Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
These are the Days of our Lives - Queen

and Lewis Capaldi- Someone you love, because they used it in the Casualty storyline where Duffy died.

Run -Leona Lewis
Good Riddance - Green Day
Falling - Harry Styles
Fields of Gold -Sting
Wild Horses - Susan Boyle

Oh and another vote for Meryl Streep's Slipping through my fingers. Makes me think of my beautiful children all now grown up

Someone you loved. Lewis Capaldi
The tracks of my tears. Smokey Robinson.
You are my sunshine.
Ill be missing you.
If tomorrow never comes. Ronan Keating.
Tears in Heaven. Eric Clapton.
Everybody hurts. R.E.M
Precious. Annie Lennox
Fast Car. Tracy Chapman.

I can't find a Johnny Cash version

Rascal Flatts, let it hurt
Birdy and Rhodes, let it all go

In the garden by Van Morrison, played at my dad’s funeral

Teddy Bear by Red Sovine

Circle of life in the lion King, it was played at my dad's funeral

Away in a manager as it was played at my nephews funeral, he passed away at 6 weeks from sids.

Anything by patsy cline as it reminds me of my dad

Oh gosh I couldn’t remember the Tim Minchin one .Just googled the lyrics . Tears. Streaming for me too. Very emotional at moment mom in a care home ( dementia)and son away at Uni .

Somewhere west side story (mums funeral)
Bright eyes
In the bleak mid winter
Follow you follow me
Wind beneath my wings
I dreamed a dream
Have I told you lately that I love you - van Morrison version

I’m so so sorry

So many but here’s a few

Dance with my Father Luther Vandross
How can you mend a broken heart Al Green
Supermarket Flowers Ed Shereen
The Scientist Coldplay
This woman’s work Maxwell
Pretty Wings Maxwell
Iris Goo Goo Dolls
Say Something A Great Big World

Everybody’s Changing….Keane
Yesterme yesteryou….Stevie Wonder
When you’re Young and in Love….The Marvalettes
Knowing Me Knowing You….Abba
O Mio Babbino Caro…..Anyone that can sing it well.
Many more, too many to mention.

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin

Dear John - sung by Eddie Reader