Music that makes you cry when you just think about it, let alone listen to it?

[Mintyy]

Mine is the theme tune to the 70s tv series Black Beauty. The closing credits with the black horse galloping through the wheat field.

Sheesh, I am getting all silly just typing that.

I would definitely cry if I were to see/hear it.

The last page of Allegri's setting of Psalm 50 (Miserere mei, Deus). "Tunc imponent superaltare ruin vitulos".

Lotti's setting of the Crucifixus.

Mozart's setting of the Lacrymosa, in the Requiem, K626.

Although it is not a fine example of compositional technique, John Stainer's setting of the words "God so loved the world, that He sent His only begotten Son, that whoso believers in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved", in his oratorio The Crucifixion.

The last movement of Tchaikovsky's sixth symphony.

Elvis Costello - Good Year for the Roses and Shipbuilding although I prefer Robert Wyatt's version.

Intermezzo from Cavelleria Rusticana by Mascagni

jezza; Carnival is Over is a beautiful song that reminds me of my lovely Mum: but she and I used to sing it in a Les Dawson style (my guitar and her voice getting gradually further and further out of tune) so I can't stop giggling whenever I hear it, even sung in tune!

Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.

Windmills of Your Mind- Noel Harrison
Clair De Lune - Debussy
Mona Lisa - Nat King Cole
Those Were The Days - Mary Hopkins

Danny Boy , the second verse where he may come back to the grave and say a prayer over it and the grave will be warmer for it.

Tears in heaven, Eric Clapton gulp

Strange Fruit Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Memory from Cats (Elaine Paige version).

Live wit

Live with me Massive attack

Blake Shelton's version of I want to go home.
It's also a Michael Buble song. It made me cry buckets when I was homesick.

Colours of the wind from Pochahontas... very powerful and moving.

The lyrics:HYou think I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is meHow can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know ...

You think you own whatever land you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name

You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew

Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?

Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, in a hoop that never ends

How high will the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon

For whether we are white or copper skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind

You can own the Earth and still
All you'll own is Earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind

I love to Boogie, it was played at a funeral, years ago now but I still have to switch the radio off when it comes on.

And 'Honey' I'm not sure who its by but its so sad...
One day while I was not at home
While she was there and all alone, the angels came
Now all I have is memories of Honey
And I wake up nights and call her name

There you'll Be by Faith Hill

There You'll Be

I had never heard it before and then my sister sang it acapella at my mum's funeral. It was hauntingly beautiful, and how she had the strength to get through it I'll never know.

Great thread - agree with lots but the one that still gets me 7 years on is "Heaven" by Bryan Adams. Came on the radio whilst I was feeling hormonal and struggling to breastfeed newborn dd1 (who arrived after 3 miscarriages)
Especially the verse
"Baby you're all that I want
When you're lying here in my arms
I'm finding it hard to believe we're in heaven"

amazing grace - we found a lovely version of it, performed by bagpipes. Played at MIL funeral, she was Scottish and loved listening to bagpipes.

Bridge over troubled water

For lovers by wolfman reminds me of a love affair sigh
The way we were be babs reminds me of my mother ,,,

Off the top of my head Crash And Burn by Savage Garden and Vienna by Ultravox.

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Crash And Burn was chosen because a man I really fancied (for want of a better word), who could make my heart skip a beat and stomach flip just to look at him, died in mysterious circumstances. I felt so awful

'You Look so Fine' by Garbage - because of an ex who made me feel exactly that way ('It's so insane, you've got me tethered and chained/I hear your name, and I'm falling over'). It was a horribly unhealthy relationship, largely because he was so unhappy, and I was young and thought I could 'fix' him. A couple of years later, when we were no longer together but still had mutual friends, I heard he'd killed himself . And 'Mad World' by Gary Jules also makes me think of him - because I think the line 'The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had' is probably how he felt sometimes.

'SO Central Rain' by R.E.M (the acapella live version) is another heartbreak song - the demise of my first serious relationship.

And Gabrielle Aplin's version of FGTH's 'The Power of Love' gets me chest-heavingly emotional from virtually the opening note. Funny, I know it's meant to be about romantic love but since having children it makes me think only of how completely overwhelming and all-consuming my love is for them ('I'll protect you from the hooded claw, keep the vampires from your door').

First post on mumsnet.
Ren Harvieu's cover of Sister morphine reduces me to a sobbing wreck every time
www.nme.com/nme-video/youtube/id/bijOOr3F53E