Page 5 | to burst into tears when singing Puff The Magic Dragon to my dcs??

preciouslillywhite · 10/09/2009 10:14

A friend once told me you were allowed to like one- just one, mind- dreadful record and sing it to your pfb. Hers was "No Matter What" by Boyzone. Mine was "Just For You" by M People

PFB is now stinky 12 year old grunter well on way to a PHD in tutting and eye rolling every time I dare speak to him...

igivein · 10/09/2009 10:19

I can blub at all the aforementioned - but what about Seasons in the Sun? That has me dissolving completely!
Also I'm glad Alex and Cerrie sing the bedtime song on cbeebies now, Chris' version had me in tears every night after someone came on hear asking where she could get a recording to play at her four year old's funeral. It hadn't occurred to me it could be sad until then.

igivein · 10/09/2009 10:21

'on here' obviously. Emotions affecting my spelling!

preciouslillywhite · 10/09/2009 10:25

"Seasons in the Sun" was robbed of its power to distress me by kids at my school who changed it to "we had joy, we had fun, flicking bogeys at the sun/but the sun grew too hot, and it turned them into snot"

(Feel awful posting that underneath the bit about the bedtime song )

LadyThompson · 10/09/2009 10:34

They're all on here - Puff, Two Little Boys, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, You are My Sunshine...but what about 'We're Walking in the Air' from The Snowman? It kills me. I used to sing it to my nephew. He is 17 now and too cool for school. And the theme from Bagpuss: 'just an old cloth cat, a bit saggy at the seams. But Emily loved him...'

LeonieSoSleepy · 10/09/2009 10:37

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weegiemum · 10/09/2009 10:41

I always liked "Walking in the Air" but it has now been either ruined or enhanced, not sure which, by the Best Irn Bru Advert Ever

preciouslillywhite · 10/09/2009 10:44

LadyThompson I worked in a toy shop over Christmas in the late 80s, and it was stuffed with musical Snowman toys playing Walking in the Air. Every ten minutes or so one would go off, and my colleague would have to leave the shop floor and go down to the warehouse for a sob

(well, I think it was a sob....

....perhaps was just a fag)

dawntigga · 10/09/2009 10:45

I can't sing that song or listen to it either.

YANBU

VerySadNowTiggaxx

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 10/09/2009 10:49

My mum also had to make up another verse to Puff the magic Dragon when I was little about another child coming along to play with puff.
Also at the age of 30 she still sings me 2 little boys if I ask her too, she was waiting for something to load on her computer the other night while we were on the phone so I got her to sing it to me

This song always makes me sob my heart out:

Look at the two of you dancing that way
Lost in the moment and each others face
So much in love your alone in this place
Like there's nobody else in the world
I was enough for her not long ago
I was her number one
She told me so
And she still means the world to me
Just so you know
So be careful when you hold my girl
Time changes everything
Life must go on
And I'm not gonna stand in your way

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But it still hard to give her away
I loved her first

How could that beautiful women with you
Be the same freckle face kid that I knew
The one that I read all those fairy tales to
And tucked into bed all those nights
And I knew the first time I saw you with her
It was only a matter of time

But I loved her first and I held her first
And a place in my heart will always be hers
From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
And I prayed that she'd find you someday
But its still hard to give her away
I loved her first

From the first breath she breathed
When she first smiled at me
I knew the love of a father runs deep
Someday you might know what I'm going through
When a miracle smiles up at you
I loved her first

PeedOffWithNits · 10/09/2009 10:54

whilst we are all sobbing at songs and poems we love, here's my contribution (and sorry if its already been done)

for mothers day, on a big laminated poster home from nursery with DS's painty hand and footprints-

"Handprints left on steamed up windows
fingerprints on clean white doors
grubby smudges on the paintwork,
muddy footprints on the floors.
But those prints don't last forever
so I've made you some to keep
for the future, when I'm older
sometimes you may take a peep
To remind you of a childhood
spent enjoying every day
playing, learning, laughing, singing
loving life in every way"

And my darling boy started school yesterday....wahhhhh!

PeedOffWithNits · 10/09/2009 10:56

oh and as for the funeral poem in Four Weddings

"stop the clocks........he is gone......"

sob sob sob sob

weegiemum · 10/09/2009 10:58

Peed Off - this one ...

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

WH Auden.

PeedOffWithNits · 10/09/2009 10:59

and finally before I HAVE to leave this thread or dissolve into floods of tears

from Dumbo

Baby mine, don't you cry
Baby mine, dry your eyes
Rest your head close to my heart
Never to part, baby of mine
Little one when you play
Don't you mind what you say
Let those eyes sparkle and shine
Never a tear, baby of mine
If they knew sweet little you
They'd end up loving you too
All those same people who scold you
What they'd give just for
The right to hold you
From your head to your toes
You're not much, goodness knows
But you're so precious to me
Cute as can be, baby of mine

those trunks through the bars........so moving

PeedOffWithNits · 10/09/2009 11:00

yes weegie, thats the one, i stopped myself googling it.....waaaah!!!!!

LOL

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 11:01

anwyone know " cock robin"?
my dad used to sing that to me

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 11:02

am ok wiht Puff as its the only thin dh can pla on the guitar so has us in fits.

next time imagine a middle man trying to sound like Neil young

weegiemum · 10/09/2009 11:02

Peed off - maybe you should jsut have a good cry then get on with your day .....

OrmIrian · 10/09/2009 11:04

I remember cock robin. My dad also used to sing 'My love is like a red red rose' to me. Gawd his voice was awful... but I loved it. Would make me cry if I heard it now.

NoahAmin · 10/09/2009 11:04

god have just posted all of cok robin on the nigella thread

Who killed Cock Robin?
I, said the Sparrow,
with my bow and arrow,
I killed Cock Robin.
Who saw him die?
I, said the Fly,
with my little eye,
I saw him die.
Who caught his blood?
I, said the Fish,
with my little dish,
I caught his blood.
Who'll make the shroud?
I, said the Beetle,
with my thread and needle,
I'll make the shroud.
Who'll dig his grave?
I, said the Owl,
with my pick and shovel,
I'll dig his grave.
Who'll be the parson?
I, said the Rook,
with my little book,
I'll be the parson.
Who'll be the clerk?
I, said the Lark,
if it's not in the dark,
I'll be the clerk.
Who'll carry the link?
I, said the Linnet,
I'll fetch it in a minute,
I'll carry the link.
Who'll be chief mourner?
I, said the Dove,
I mourn for my love,
I'll be chief mourner.
Who'll carry the coffin?
I, said the Kite,
if it's not through the night,
I'll carry the coffin.
Who'll bear the pall?
We, said the Wren,
both the cock and the hen,
We'll bear the pall.
Who'll sing a psalm?
I, said the Thrush,
as she sat on a bush,
I'll sing a psalm.
Who'll toll the bell?
I said the bull,
because I can pull,
I'll toll the bell.
All the birds of the air
fell a-sighing and a-sobbing,
when they heard the bell toll
for poor Cock Robin.

BertieBotts · 10/09/2009 11:06

Streets of London makes me blub and has since I was a little girl.

That Morningtown song has just given me shivers, I was about to skim past it as I didn't recognise it but then the last line sounded familiar so I looked it up on Spotify and I recognised it straight away, I think my mum used to sing it to me as a lullaby

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 10/09/2009 11:09

Ooh yeah streets of london makes me sob too and has done since a child.

MitchyInge · 10/09/2009 11:10

bright eyes - I can't even type 'how can a light that burned so brightly . . .' without tears spilling over

and all the others on this thread

a reliable antidote to puff is Puff the Kosher Dragon - anyone know it?

weegiemum · 10/09/2009 11:13

The other one that often makes me cry is "Eleanor Rigby"

who

"died in the church and was buried along with her name. Nobody came"

I remember the first time I figured that out as a child and I was - especially as the song was right next to "Yellow Submarine" on the record!

bandgeek · 10/09/2009 11:14

My mum used to sing 'Nobody's Child' to me when I was wee. That song is a killer!

Loads of Christmas carols make me cry - Away in a Manager, It was on a starry night, O Holy Night....

Apparantly I used to cry loads at Candle in The Wind too (the orignal version)