DD1 came home and said she'd heard 'the most beautiful song ever' and it was...

[nearlythree]

Puff the Magic Dragon!!!!

Don't think she understood it properly.

I did try and explain that mummy cries when she hears this song.

A more accurate description would be that mummy sobs uncontrollably and has to be helped to bed.

WHOEVER THOUGHT THIS WAS A SUITABLE SONG FOR CHILDREN???? (or anyone?)

tmmj- according to the album cover notes- its a mystery.

Stairway to Heaven is about Robert Plants wife, who died.

Just played my new Kate Rusby CD - she has written a song for her grandmother who nursed her husband through emphezema caused by working in the coal mines, and it's about how she needs him and how she wants him left with her, and the last verse has the colliery brass band playing quietly...

Dd1 wants to learn all the words to Puff...

Ah the wonderful Kate

scarlett ribbons & somewhere over the rainbow for me.
Don't cry for me Argentina used to make me howl uncontrollably when I was a little girl.

Do you know, I found myself blubbing to The White Cliffs of Dover the other day.

When DD1 was in Y6 the school performed a play called The Evacuees, which culminated in the entire cast and audience swaying along to We'll Meet Again - for one of the shows they invited local OAPs along to watch, and that combination made me dissolve completely

Let's say goodbye with a smile, dear,
Just for a while, dear, we must part.
Don't let the parting upset you,
I'll not forget you, sweetheart.

We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through,
Just like you always do
Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away

So will you please say "Hello"
To the folks that I know
Tell them I won't be long
htmThey'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song

We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day

We'll meet again,
Don't know where
Don't know when.
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do,
'Til the blue skies
Drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say"Hello"
To the folks that I know.
Tell them it won't be long.
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go,
I was singin' this song.

We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

I grew up listening to that!

Apparently Dame Vera is 90 this yr, I was reading Bill Deedes on how she was one of our greatest 'secret weapons' during the War.

Two little children, a girl and a boy
Stood by an old church door
The little girls feet were as brown as the curls
That hung upon the dress that she wore

The little boy's coat was all tattered and torn
And tears hung in his blue eyes
Why Don't you go home to your mother I said
And this was the maiden's reply

Mama's in Heaven, Angels took her away
She is gone to that land fair and bright
She said she would come for her darlings some day
Perhaps she will come tonight

We can't earn our bread, we're too little, she said
Jim's five and I'm only seven
We can't earn our living since Papa is dead
And our darling Mama's in heaven

Papa got drowned on the sea long ago
We waited all night by the shore
For he was a lifesaving captain you know
And he never came back anymore

Perhaps, there's no room up in Heaven, she said
For two little darlings to keep
She then placed her hand under Jims little head
She kissed him, and both fell asleep

The sexton came early to ring the church bell
And found them beneath the snow white
The angels made room for two orphans to dwell
In heaven with Mama that night

my dad had an album called Sad Songs Irish Style and this one used to make me sob

OMG Puff the magic dragon!
had so forgotten how sad that was ..

oooh nearlythree, what about Kate Rusby's 'Underneath the Stars'?

I know, that is my ds' lullaby CD so will have extra reasons for sobbing in years to come!

What did moondog say she thought the place was (can't scroll through again)? I always thought it was " a land called Homily" so this thread is a revelation to me. I love the Peter, Paul and Mary version. And Two Little Boys is a killer too. But the song that I can't even think about without weeping is this one, by Abba...

Slipping Through My Fingers

Schoolbag in hand, she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile
I watch her go with a surge of that well-known sadness
And I have to sit down for a while
The feeling that I'm losing her forever
And without really entering her world
Im glad whenever I can share her laughter
That funny little girl

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sleep in our eyes, her and me at the breakfast table
Barely awake, I let precious time go by
Then when she's gone there's that odd melancholy feeling
And a sense of guilt I can't deny
What happened to the wonderful adventures
The places I had planned for us to go
(slipping through my fingers all the time)
Well, some of that we did but most we didn't
And why I just don't know

Slipping through my fingers all the time
I try to capture every minute
The feeling in it
Slipping through my fingers all the time
Do I really see what's in her mind
Each time I think I'm close to knowing
She keeps on growing
Slipping through my fingers all the time

Sometimes I wish that I could freeze the picture
And save it from the funny tricks of time
Slipping through my fingers...

Slipping through my fingers all the time

Schoolbag in hand she leaves home in the early morning
Waving goodbye with an absent-minded smile...

And that's me gone

Oh moo, I remember you quoting that one before

(Have never heard it though)

Oh moo, I remember you quoting that one before

(Have never heard it though)

oops, sorry, double-clicked

I wonder if it's on YouTube...I'll have a look, Jan.

here it is sob

Just for you, Jan - grab your tissues

oh boy - this one too - makes me well up

Love, Me - Colin Raye

I read a note my Grandma wrote back in 1923

Grandpa kept it in his coat and he showed it once to me

He said "Boy, you might not understand but a long long time ago

Grandma's daddy didn't like me none but I loved your Grandma so

We had this crazy plan to meet and run away together

Get married in the first town we came to and live forever

But nailed to the tree where we were supposed to meet instead

I found this letter and this is what it said"

Chorus:

If you get there before I do don't give up on me

I'll meet you when my chores are through

I don't know how long I'll be

But I'm not gonna let you down

Darlin' wait and see

And between now and then till I see you again

I'll be loving you

Love, Me

I read those words just hours before my Grandma passed away

In the doorway of a church where me and Grandpa stopped to pray

I know I'd never seen him cry in all my fifteen years

But as he said these words to her his eyes filled up with tears

Chorus

And between now and then till I see you again

I'll be loving you

Love, Me

everything makes me cry but particularly 'Nothing Compares to you' by Sinead O'Connor and 'Zombie' by The Cranberries:

Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?

But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.
In your head, in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are crying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying...

In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey. What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...

Moon river, this is what was played as the curtains closed in front of the coffin at my dads funeral in january

Moon River, wider than a mile:
I'm crossin' you in style someday.
Old dream maker, you heartbreaker,
Wherever you're goin', I'm goin'your way.
Two drifters, off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end,
Waitin' round the bend,
My huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me.

I wa holding it together this that part, then I heard that and lost it

there you go eidsvoid

am welling up now!

Robbie williams

Song for nan