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

[LucyOnTheSchoolRunWithDiamonds]

I ended up making dd cry too.

We're a cheerful bunch aren't we?

I just made the mistake of listening to Concrete Angel by Martina McBride again. Even reading the lyrics is enough to make me sob.

She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace, oh

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearing the burden of a secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she's loved concrete angel

Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear but they turn out the light
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it will be too late

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she's loved concrete angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place
Where she's loved concrete angel

I just bought my daughter a copy of the book of Puff the Magic Dragon with a little word from the author at the back (peter) and he says that they add a page at the end where Puff is playing with a new friend, and something along the lines of, that new friend represents the reader/listener, and that each new generation grows up and reads the book to their child etc.

Quite nice.

Two Little Boys gets me, as does Father and Daughter by Paul Simon, but the biggest is As I Leave You www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Softly-as-I-Leave-You-lyrics-Elvis-Presley/884A9B86E270967648 256874003AAC6B - gah!

Thanks for leaving me blubbing away to Two Little Boys ...

OK not a song, but in The Railway Children, the scene at the end when Bobby finally sees her dad again at the station - the steam and smoke clears to reveal him standing on the platform, and she runs forward saying "daddy, my daddy!" It's on youtube under "Railway Children - Ending."

Also She's Leaving Home by The Beatles, and the Abba one about her daughter 'waving goodbye with an absent minded smile'.

i don't think I can read all of this thread, I'm rubbish I cry at Baggy Brown!!

Not a kids' song, but "The Windmills of Your Mind" makes me sob.

Also some dreadful tune the children sing when they leave infant school here (aged c. 7)- "One More Step Along the Road I Go". No idea why, really it's very cheery, it's just seeing their wee bright faces singing about growing up, and "keep me travelling along with you" ... waaah!

No no way, it gets me every time.

When I lived in London I used to get a bus from Waterloo, the 501 and everyone, really odd used to queue in orderly single file, the queue was massive. However there was quite often an Irish busker who used to sing Puff the Magic Dragon with a banjo in a smooth, tear inducing way in the uderground bit of the queue, it echoed and made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up!

I used to cry all the time and not let anyone see, being the then hard nosed career woman I was!

It isn't a song but Barber's Adagio For Strings makes me cry hysterically.

Why oh why did I look at this thread when premenstrual and patting my sweet baby DS2 off to sleep after his BF. I read the first page and was a little misty eyed, then skipped to page 7 and got the soldiers letter and blubbed then continued Reading and had a few sniffles and then the authors note for Puff has set me off again.

When I had just had DS1 a yoga teacher played 'Follow me home' by sugarbabes at the relaxtiony bit of a postnatal yoga session. It was written by one of the babes after the birth of her first son. I often try to listen to it when relaxing with either of my boys but whenever It gets to the line 'baby all I'm trying to say is that my heart is here to hold you, I'm never far away take my hand so I can feel you'...oh here I go again!

Just when I think that songs can't possibly get any sadder I just listened to the 9-11 version of DJ Sammy's cover of Heaven.

It has a voice of a little girl speaking to her father who is supposed to have died in the attacks.

It has these words over the slow version of
Heaven.

It's been a year daddy
I really really miss you
Mommie says you're safe now
in a beautiful place called Heaven
We have your favorite dinner tonight
I ate it all up
even though i don't like carrots
I learned how to swim this summer
I can even open my eyes
when i'm under water
Can't you see me?
I started kindergarten this year
I carry around a picture of us
in my Blue's Clues lunchbox
You are the greatest daddy
I can swing on the swing by myself
even though i miss you pushing me
Can't you see me?
I miss how you used to tickle me
Tickle my belly
My belly hurts
I try not to cry
Mommie says it's ok
I know you don't like it when i cry
Never wanted me to be sad
I try daddy but it hurts
Is it true you're not coming home?
Maybe some day
I can visit you in Heaven, ok?
It's time for me to go to bed now
I sleep with the light on
just in case you come home
and kiss me good night
I love you so much
I miss you daddy

Is Wires that effing awful song on the GOSH ad? They do wonderful work there, and I'm so sorry for anyone who has gone through dreadful times who relate to the song, but I hate that singer's intonation. He sounds like he's asking a question at the end of each line.

The poem above - 'Too beautiful for Earth' one made me cry though, so hopefully I don't sound like too much of a heartless wench.

Oh my god, The Long and Winding Road makes me blub so much, I actually can't listen to it There's something about the melody that goes straight into my heart...

Also Homeward Bound by Simon and Garfunkel. And Super Trouper by Abba reminds me of dancing with my daddy, as does most of Chuck Berry's back catalogue! I could twist before I walked

I can't listen to much of U2's Joshua Tree album, or Paul Simon's Graceland without a tear welling up as they were cassettes we played till they broke on family holidays.

None of them kids' songs but ones that remind me of my childhood and how I'm old now with my own child. I often wonder what songs will remind him of this time in his life...

Another vote for "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot."

I try to be brave when I hear it on the radio at Christmas, and sing along in a matter-of-fact way, but when it gets to the line "I feel sorry for that laddie, he hasn't got a Daddy," my voice squeaks away to nothing!

Also "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles, because DD sings along so beautifully with "An' I say, it's all wight..." I have to wind that one on if I'm driving.

This thread has really struck a chord with me! Two little boys always makes me well up - I imagine the devastation during WWI and his friend turning up to rescue him off the muddied battlefield.

When my daughter was born I started singing her Aazing Grace as it is te only tune i can vaguely hold. I only knew the chorus, so I googled the words - the last couple of verses had me weeping over my baby.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

T'was Grace that taught my heart to fear.
And Grace, my fears relieved.
How precious did that Grace appear
The hour I first believed.

Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come;
'Tis Grace that brought me safe thus far
and Grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me.
His word my hope secures.
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.

Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.

When we've been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun.
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we've first begun.

Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.

Im so glad DH is working away from home tonight so I can blart away in peace.

So... Who is up for a round of If you're happy and you know it?

Am in floods now.

Two little boys, Tears in Heaven and Wires are mine.

SGB - the first time I watched the night garden I thought of it being my own DDs funeral song (she is not ill) - fortunately after wtching it everyday for the last 2 years the emotional intensity has worn off.

This gets me as well......

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
and I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes...

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun,
and I say it's all right
It's all right

I once tried to sing Fix You by Coldplay to DD2 when she was a tiny baby and dissolved into snorting sobs. ("when you lose something you can't replace ... I will guide you home ..." snort)

Hello again fellow blubbers.

Good old Terry Wogan (God I am getting old) played the lovely late great Kirsty McColl this morning and that got me blubbing away - does every time, especially thinking of the manner of her tragic, early, death:

just gorgeous

Oh my god, Georgimama, I love that song. A very dear friend said she wanted that song at her funeral, and I haven't been able to listen to it without crying since

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff,
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on puffs gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow wheneer they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name. oh!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, jackie paper came no more
And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

I work with children...but can no longer sing this song since my Dad got not very old but really ill. The last couple of verses just tip me beyond control

I know, I was crying driving to work. DS (aged 2.5) was looking at me like I was a mentalist. No reason - nothing to be sad about - it's just a Pavlov's dogs style response. I hear that song, I start crying. Same problem with 2 Little Boys, and indeed, Puff the Magic Dragon.

Just to add to my self indulgent pain, I am now listening to "Slipping Through My Fingers" by Abba. Don't have a daughter but that doesn't really matter - it's the same with DS. His little childhood is slipping through my fingers, that really is what it feels like.

We had the Kinks version of 'Days' for my Dad's funeral

I have just listened to "Slipping Through My Fingers" as well whilst following the lyrics on this post. My DH keeps looking over at me all concerned becuase i am sobbing quielty into my lass of wine.

(Please note that only concerned because he thinks that I have finally lost it if I am crying over a song.)

OMG. Some of the links on this thread are fab. Song and poems that I had not though of for years keep being mentioned. I keep reading the thread again and again becuase I am enjoying it too much. Please note that I am also a blubbering, snotty wreck as well.

Mike Skinner at his best

We Never Went To Church
Two great European narcotics,
Alcohol and Christianity,
I know which one I prefer

We never went to church,
Just get on with work and sometimes things'll hurt,
But it's hit me since you left us,
And it's so hard not to search.

If you were still about,
I'd ask you what I'm supposed to do now,
I just get a bit scared,
Every now,
Hope I made you proud.

On your birthday when mum passed the forks and spoons,
I put my head on the table I was so distraught with you,
You tidied your things into the bin,
The more poorly you grew,
So there's nothing of yours to hold or to talk to.

You put your hand up and interrupt the conversation with a, but...
People say I interrupt people with the same look.
Sometimes I think so hard I can't remember how your face looked,
Started reading about dreams in your favourite book.
I panic and pace when I can't see the right thing to do.
You'd be scratching your head through the best advice you knew.
And I feel sad I can't hear you reciting it through,
I miss you dad, but I've got nothing to remind me of you

Chorus

I needed a break when your book about dreams was taken,
I needed to pray or see a priest that day,
I needed to leave this trade and just heave it away,
But I cleaned up my place like you so I could see things straight.

I never cared about God when life was sailin' in the calm,
So I said I'd get my head down and I'd deal with the ache in my heart,
And for that if God exists I'd reckon he'd pay me regard,
Mum says me and you are the same from the start.

I guess then you did leave me something to remind me of you,
Everytime I interrupt someone like you used to,
When I do something like you you'll be on my mind or through,
'Cause I forgot you left me behind to remind me of you.

Chorus x 2

But you used to tell me how you didn't know what to do even now,
And then I'm not so scared somehow,
'Cause I know that you'd be proud.

I got a good one for you dad,
I'm gonna see a priest, a Rabbi and a Protestant clergyman,
You always said I should hedge my bets.