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

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nearlythree · 09/03/2007 20:27

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?)

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MrsPhilipGlenister · 09/03/2007 22:06

My DSs have developed a complete obsession with ELO's "Out of the Blue" and lots of the songs on that make me cry, not least as I associate it with a particularly shit year of my life .

sideways · 09/03/2007 22:06

Puff makes me sob. Have tears welling up now but can't cry as cp will have me committed.

Seasons in the Sun is another one.

There's a beegees song - Gotta Get a Message to You that does it every time as well

And Your Song by Elton John - from when I was pregnant.

themildmanneredjanitor · 09/03/2007 22:07

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sideways · 09/03/2007 22:07

And Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

singersgirl · 09/03/2007 22:07

Oh, Puff the Magic Dragon sets me off too. There was a really crap band playing it on holiday recently and we had to explain to DS2 why Mummy, after a cocktail, was wiping big fat tears away. I can't even say "Dragons live forever, not so little boys" without welling up.

The other one that works every time is "She's leaving home" by The Beatles ("What did we do that was wrong? We didn't know it was wrong", "Standing alone at the top of the stairs she breaks down"). DH used to play this when I was driving on the motorway to see how long it would take me to start to cry.

ssd · 09/03/2007 22:09

must be hard as nails

puff doesn't affect me at all

MrsPhilipGlenister · 09/03/2007 22:09

Oh yes singersgirl, completely agree with you about She's Leaving Home.

Eleanor Rigby gets me, too.

bumperlicious · 09/03/2007 22:10

What about that David Bowie song 'Ground control to major Tom (or whatever it's called) I could never work out - does he die at the end of it?

MrsPhilipGlenister · 09/03/2007 22:11

Oh, Space Oddity - yes! They had it in DS2's sharing assembly the other week - the topic was Famous People, and they'd been doing Neil Armstrong - and I was blubbing away and had to hide behind the camcorder!

themildmanneredjanitor · 09/03/2007 22:15

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eidsvold · 09/03/2007 22:16

2 little boys used to get me too

Andrea Bocelli - The Prayer can bring tears to my eyes.

kimi · 09/03/2007 22:19

I opened the link i opened the link, now i need tissues

JanH · 09/03/2007 22:19

The Greatest Discovery from the album Elton John does it for me (as well as 2 little boys & Puff)

"and all you ever learned from them
until you grew much older
could not compare with when they said
this is your brand new brother"

mainlymayday · 09/03/2007 22:20

Puff, Two Little Boys and Seasons in the Sun - sobbing

Dance with my father - can't breathe for sobbing

Also all the songs I sing to my little girl:

"What'll I do, when you, are far away.." and "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine..." Luckily she's too young to know that her daft mummy is bawling.

On a different note I also cry at Billy Bragg's "Waiting for the Great Leap Forward" which is a bit weird as it's a light hearted song but it's just so passionate it makes me well up.

sideways · 09/03/2007 22:20

eidsvold - is that the one with the spoken English bi at the beginning about a child?

If so, I can't even listen to that one

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kimi · 09/03/2007 22:22

Wind benith my wings does it too,
My best friend died when that film was out and i still cant hear it without crying

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kimi · 09/03/2007 22:24

As i said DH1 sobs like a child every time dance with my father is on the radio, it came out the week his dad died

eidsvold · 09/03/2007 22:30

the prayer

he sings with celine dion.

In fact a lot of his songs cause me to well up. Think it is just his voice.

kimi · 09/03/2007 22:30

I guess i outted myself as a dolly parton fan here

eidsvold · 09/03/2007 22:34

oh this is another one that can bring me to tears

Garth Brooks - Belleau Wood

Twiga · 09/03/2007 22:37

I bought a Christmas album this year that had a song on about a man stood in line in a shoe shop - I know you're wandering where this is going.....

.....well, it's all about him overhearing a young boy at the front of the queue who's trying to buy a pair of shoes for his Mum for Christmas who's ill and dying at home, doesn't have enough money to buy them and how he just wants him Mum to look pretty if she goes to meet Jesus that night. Song ends with the man listening in buying the shoes for him. Can't even get through the first few notes of the song now without howling - much to dh's amusement - thinks I'm a big sentimental wuss. Will have to look it out and post the lyrics tomorrow sometime.

Califrau · 09/03/2007 22:39

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eidsvold · 09/03/2007 22:39

oh yeh Twiga - I know the one you are talking about.

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