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

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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?)

Ohhh, thank you, ledodgy and moo - have just watched it through 3 times. What sweet pictures - so sad that that family broke up the way it did.

And absolutely brilliant lyrics. I do love Abba.

This thread is a veritable blub-fest.

Cat stevens gets me aswell

Have you ever heard Cat Stevens' version of Morning Has Broken? That makes me weep too.

just for you martha

Oh, moo, thank you, am blubbing soooooooo hard.

Thanks, ledodgy.

D'you know...pretty much anything makes me cry these days? I used to look at my Mum in bewilderment when she'd cry at songs on the radio and now...I am that woman

I love Moon River...

and this one

And of course, the most cliched sad song of them all Danny Boy

(I've picked the Muppets version so no-one will cry at it )

Two that always get me are "Christopher Robin is sayig his prayers" Mum used to sing it to me as a child and Bridge over trouble waters by Simon and Garfunkel. She loved S&G, she's 8 years goe om May but that sog just gets me, oh and have just thought of two others that she loed and that i love also but well up whe I hear them, Vincent "starry starry night" by Don Mc Clean, also, "And I love you so" by Perry Como........oops am welling up.

oh, der peeps, der peeps!

(THanks moo )

I love you tube! If it wasn't for youtube and mumsnet I would never go online!

Jesus my keys are fu*ked!

gosh, i am blubbin at the slipping through my fingers one....i bloody hate Abba aswell! i'd never heard this one before and i'm at the bottom of the glass by this point....

I'm sorry, but I thought some of the others were hilareious though! Rolf Harris! How can he sound so jolly singing about someone laying wounded and dying!???

And my bloody eyeliner's ruined! It's taken me 24 years to apply it right JUST ONCE and then you all have me listening to Abba songs!

Obv I haven't spent the full 24 years applying eyeliner....(gg skulks off to refill glass)

Ah God, nice one Marthamoo, am psml at muppets version of Danny boy.

Never mind the sad songs - what about Martin Wadell's picture books. The Big Big Sea, In the Middle of the Night and There were Giants in OurHouse! Cruelty to parents, I call it!

It's cracking, isn't it Mhamai - I was roaring laughing When they all start crying at the end...glad you liked it, Jan (think we needed an antidote).

this makes me cry too until Ronana keating ruined it!

*ronan

Think you may have got it right first time ledo.......Rononnnnnnnnn that sings everything with a shwahhhhhhh, bloody big girls blouse.

This makes me cry - Tasmin Archer - In Your Care

the light is fading from my room
as night time comes around too soon
i'm so afraid
swollen eyes portray my pain
as tears fall like the summer rain
I'm so alone

son of a bitch you broke my heart
i need a little loving
to take away the pain
how could you let me down?
when i'm in your care

i pull the covers to myself
drink and smoke upon his breath
i close my eyes
again i pray to god above
what have i done to lose his love?
am i to blame?

when i am dreaming
i can call out
no one hears
father
i'm falling from your heart in tears

hush little baby don't you cry
daddy's going to sing you a lullaby
to show he cares
but you must keep our secret safe
is this love or is this hate?
i feel so scared

Btw Martha, I'll be mailing it to everyone here at home, coming up to Paddy's day, it will go down a treat!