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

[LucyOnTheSchoolRunWithDiamonds]

I ended up making dd cry too.

Oh yes... Bright Eyes. A good antidote to that for me is the memory of a little boy dressed in a rabbit suit belting it out way off-key on Tiswas (anyone remember Saturday mornings on ATV? Tiswas, with Chris Tarrant, Lenny Henry and Spit the Dog from the 1970s?) It was replayed constantly on every single show over what seemed like a whole year! That makes me laugh instead of blub every time!

But Walking in the Air....mentioned earlier, gets me every time too.

I also have to admit that I'm a huge Dr Who fan and have loved the music that has accompanied the more recent series. I do get quite choked with the haunting "Rose" music, and I bawled my eyes out the last time I saw "Silence in the Library".(more the dialogue though, not the music!) Am I mad or does anyone else suffer this too?

Ohh and this one really stayed with me as well, Rosemary's Sister by Fairport Convention, I heard it when I was about 10 I think:

Brother of disaster and sister of our fate
Do you count the tragedies we see?
And brother of confusion and sister of debate
Do you remember the sister of Rosemary?

The doodlebugs were flying and the blitz was at its height
Rosemary lay sleeping with her sister only five
And no one heard the one that hit, the one that blew the lid
Rosemary came out crying but her sister never did

Chorus
And you fly high, and your dreams are all in vain
One moment we are singing and the next we cry in pain
But high above the heavens on a host of angels' wings
Rosemary's sister will be dancing

Her mother cried all that year as many others did
There were times when she'd pull through now and again
And the people there in Bethnal Street in the rubble and the stones
Swept up the street and started out again

When tyranny needs fighting you do your best to try
And stifle all your heartache till it's safe again to cry
And when at last the darkness clears and the light comes shining through
You dusted off and started all anew

There's a teacher in the classroom, there's a mother in the hall
The children sit and wait for the bell for home
And Rosemary is waiting, she has a child now of her own
And she's waiting to collect and take her home

And sometimes in the firelight in the silence where she sits
Her mind goes back to Bethnal Street, the darkness and the blitz
And she hears if there's another one, then the end will be complete,
Well, I wonder what they'd say in the Bethnal Street

Poetry that makes a tear come to my eye is something else entirely! This is a sad one....

A brand new day

Pain searing through me wishing they could see
all the warm cosy families around
all they hear are the sounds.
scream I cry I beg him why?
What have I done to you to make you this way Why am i so weak why do I stay?
Smiling, the world can see I love him and him me
Back home the smiles will fade
I will suffer for another day
I hate this life all battered and torn
Maybe tomorrow when a new day dawns..... Tomorrow has come the same again
I don't know how long i can hide this pain
"Don't hurt my mummy" a small voice cries
As on the floor his mummy lies
I am hearing my son
I can't move to him
too weak to crawl to tired to stand
after being at the fate of this evil man
A new day is coming
My sons voice is drumming
22 months old and so wise you see
"Daddy don't hit Mummy, please daddy instead hit me"
my son is too precious for me to stay here
I must take him away where danger is not near
I will pack his bags and tell him to go
It will be very hard this i already know. The new day is here
I brush aside a tear a tear for my failings for staying so long
A tear for my sons loss.
I walk in our bedroom and say "i want you to go, you need to leave"
If you feel anything for us you'll go please"
Anger emerges, i call the police
They take him away....
Now begins a brand new day....................

Not a song i know, but I couldn't even finish telling my husband the story of Little Match Girl as I completely broke down before the end- it took me another hour to get the ending out through strangled sobs.
Why on earth is it a children's story? It is devastating! It has scarred me- i am welling up thinking of her in the snow surrounded by spent matches...

I'm likethis now, totally mushy. I never used to be, I think it was an after effect of giving birth. I often have to choke when I read bedtime stories because fgs someone was mean in a story or some soppy stuff like in the Little House on the Prairie where Laura reads out a poem (well she is actually making it up on the spot) about how wonderful her mum is.

Dd is worse though, she will bawl and bawl at Puff the Magic Dragon even without my help.

Oh jeepers, there was a terrible story in one of my books when I was a kid about a boy who had a robot who loved him and did everything for him, but the boy never ever said thanks even though the robot was craving for him to say it. And so the robot died

It was a robot in a story! Never existed! Mind you, don't even get me started on that Spielberg film, AI...

YANBU. I can't get through Puff without crying either. Or indeed any sad song. The DDs are forever asking me Mummy why are your eyes going red. (V attractive)

Agree with ZZZ - I never used to be like this before being pg and giving birth - it must be some hormonal thingy.

This is a great thread, have been blubbing to 2 little boys. However the song that gets me every time is 'When She Loved Me' from Toy Story 2, even before the song comes on I start crying and have to leave the room.

Oh no, is that the one that Jessie sings? About the little girl too old for dolls?

Grief, what a sobfest.....!

Puff the Magic Dragon; Stop the Clocks; Nothing Compares 2U; Two Little Boys; Private Universe (Crowded House); Chasing Cars (Snow Patrol)

Throw Your Arms Around Me by Hunters & Collectors is one that my late OH used to play on his guitar with his mates.

Not that long after I'd met my lovely man, I went on a 3 week hol with my son and this song was a bit special for us.

I will come for you at night time
I will raise you from your sleep
I will kiss you in four places
I'll go running along your street
I will squeeze the life out of you
You will make me laugh and make me cry
We will never forget it
You will make me call your name and I'll shout it to the blue summer sky
We may never meet again
So shed your skin and lets get started
And you will throw your arms around me

I dreamed of you at night time
And I watched you in your sleep
I met you in high places
I touched your head and touched your feet
So if you dissapear out of view
You know, I will never say goodbye
Though I try to forget it
You will make me call your name and I'll shout it to the blue summer sky

We may never meet again
So shed your skin and lets get started
And you will throw your arms around me
Yeah you will throw you arms around me
(repeat to end)

So many songs - God I'm a wuss!

I cried at the song at the end of "Prince Caspian" as well - The Call, by Regina Spektor.

We have it on dvd and any time we watch it i briskly get up a couple of minutes before the end to go and "do the dishes" or somesuch!

2 little boys does it for me everytime.
dd always wants me to sing it and i rarely get to the end without my throat going.

Slipping through my fingers & Tears in Heaven for me

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven
Will it be the same
If I saw you in heaven
I must be strong, and carry on
Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven

Etc etc

Have become a bit immune to Puff as all 3 of my children demand it when they're sad, which is surprisingly often!!!

Bertie Botts yours has reminded me of a really poignant song in Yiddish with a grown man singing about his big sister Chaya who looked after all her little brothers everyday while their mother was out at work, and when the Gestapo came for her she was not even 10.

Thanks folks for making me cry at my desk! But extra thanks to SomeGuy for playground version of Puff. I just found the Kosher Dragon online!

Christmas carols very often bring a lump to my throat - doesn't even have to be tinies singing Away in a Manger (collapses howling).

Have had to wait outside a friend's house for ten minutes in the car to collect myself because heard about three seconds of Two Little Boys...

And LadyIsabella I have to leave room too at "When She Loved Me"- still can't get over it even tho we first got the video about 10(?)years ago!

I read an analysis of it once in the Guardian, saying what a clever song it was and that the reason it affects parents so badly is that it subconsciously reminds them of how their dcs will grow up and leave home

God. Have had to stop typing this/put my sandwich down three times while posting just thinking of it...

Oh, you rotten cows. Only came on mn for a quick chuckle while I ate me lunch

...God jessia only just saw yours [no emoticon quite sad enough]

An ex got in touch with me via Facebook and then sent me this song....

"Far Away"

This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just in case there's just one left
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore

On my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

[CHORUS]

So far away
Been far away for far too long
So far away
Been far away for far too long
But you know, you know, you know

I wanted
I wanted you to stay
'Cause I needed
I need to hear you say
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I forgive you
For being away for far too long
So keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go

That'll teach him to dump me lol!!!
No tbh it does bring a tear to my eye to think he still feels the same all these years later.

I sing Two Little Boys to my DS every night. I won't sing the second verse though - he's too young .

Baby mine from Dumbo is enough to have me in floods of tears ... and Nick Cave's Into My Arms.

My Dad died when I was younger and Luther Vandross 'Dance With My Father' was released just before I got married. I couldn't listen to the radio for months! The Carpenters 'Won't Last A Day Without You' seems to do it to and The Streets 'We Never Went To Church' is unbearable.

Another story:
Oscar Wilde's 'The Happy Prince'
I can't bring myself to read it to DD yet as I can't get to the end without crying.

Two Little Boys and Bright Eyes get me every time.

Thunderduck I sing Godspeed to DSs too and now I really am welling. He's looking at me like I've gone mad

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0-cncMpt8 sniff

aaarggghh Ive got to go pick up the children and Im sitting here with tears pouring down my face. I never eralised how sad Puff was and two little boys.
Wind Beneath My Wings always makes me cry and so does You are Always on My Mind (It was played at my Uncles funeral)

I always had to just mouth the words to 'You are my sunshine' in our baby music class because it would set me off.

The other one I love is a lovely old country song called When the Roses Bloom Again by Laura Cantrell - I used to regularly sob at work whilst listening to it (as I am now!):

When the Roses Bloom Again

They were strolling in the gloaming
Where the roses were in bloom
A soldier and his sweetheart brave and true
And their hearts were filled with sorrow
For their thoughts were of tomorrow
As she pinned a rose upon his coat of blue

Do not ask me love to linger
When you know not what to say
For duty calls your sweetheart's name again
And your heart need not be sighing
If I be among the dying
I'll be with you when the roses bloom again

When the roses bloom again
Beside the river
And the mockingbird has sung his sweet refrain
In the days of auld lang syne
I'll be with you sweetheart mine
I'll be with you when the roses bloom again

Mid the rattle of the battle
Came a whisper soft and low
A soldier who had fallen in the fray
I am dying, I am dying
And I know I'll have to go
But I want to tell you
Before I pass away

There's a far and distant river
Where the roses are in bloom
A sweetheart who is waiting there for me
And it's there I pray you take me
I've been faithful, don't forsake me
I'll be with her when the roses bloom again

Wahhhhhhh! It also makes me sad because she is one of JOhn Peel's favourites, and I really miss hearing his lovely voice on the radio

There is a soldier's letter from the American Civil War which my Dad gave to my Mum just before he died (not that he was a soldier or anything)

^My very dear Sarah:
The indications are very strong that we shall move in a few days?perhaps tomorrow. Lest I should not be able to write again, I feel impelled to write a few lines that may fall under your eye when I shall be no more . . .

I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter. I know how strongly American Civilization now leans on the triumph of the Government and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution. And I am willing?perfectly willing?to lay down all my joys in this life, to help maintain this Government, and to pay that debt . . .

Sarah my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break; and yet my love of Country comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistibly on with all these chains to the battle field.

The memories of the blissful moments I have spent with you come creeping over me, and I feel most gratified to God and to you that I have enjoyed them for so long. And hard it is for me to give them up and burn to ashes the hopes of future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grown up to honorable manhood, around us. I have, I know, but few and small claims upon Divine Providence, but something whispers to me?perhaps it is the wafted prayer of my little Edgar, that I shall return to my loved ones unharmed. If I do not my dear Sarah, never forget how much I love you, and when my last breath escapes me on the battle field, it will whisper your name. Forgive my many faults and the many pains I have caused you. How thoughtless and foolish I have often times been! How gladly would I wash out with my tears every little spot upon your happiness . . .

But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the gladdest days and in the darkest nights . . . always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again . . .

Sullivan Ballou was killed a week later at the first Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861.^