Quote Originally Posted by Lachlan09 View Post
Anyone have any songs which make you sad or a little tearful or you can imagine as a video or short film ?

One that has had me a little like this over the years is an old Jethro Tull song:-

Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die


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I saw Tull in 1972 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at LSU. Thick as a Brick was pretty new, and it was a really good concert.

At least, in memory it was. That was a long time ago.

Sad songs are atracive, and remind me of the words of Gilbert Parker: "There is no refuge from memory and regreat in this life. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt, even with repentence."

But sad songs I love are too many to count. A few of the best the come to mind are:

1. "Fire and Rain" James Taylor ("I always thought I'd see you again.") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T35WXFOmwI

2. "I'm Movin' On" Rascall Flatts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bxlDAjGCo

3. "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgMEPk6fvpg (You really don't know what you've got 'til it's gone!)

4. "For the Good Times" Kristofferson but sung by Ray Price ("There's no need to watch the bridges that we're burning.") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZKIX0ICZo

5. "Misery and Gin" Merle Haggard ("looking at the world through the bottom of a glass . . .sittin' with all my friends and talkin' to myself") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNTWW1y1x0M

6. "He Stopped Lovin' Her Today" George Jones ("He stopped loving her today; they placed a wreath upon his door.") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqY5exITMJo

7. "Send in the Clowns" Sondheim via Judy Collins ("don't you love farce? My fault I fear. I thought that you'd want what I want; sorry, my dear") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbRnMqRHveU

8. "Glen Coe"

9. "At Seventeen" Janis Ian ("I learned the truth at 17, that love was meant for beauty queens.") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qyIx0z_6o

10. "Whiskey Lullaby" Brad Paisley and Alison Kraus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89hQwdxqHY

11. "Daylight Again/Find the Cost of Freedom" Crosby Stills and Nash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8z0kpgnHG8

12. "I keep Forgetting" Michael MacDonald http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvEps...rom=PL&index=7

13. "Loch Lomond" ("You tak the high road, an' I'll tak the low road..where mye and my true love will never meet again") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZ-p-tN8Gs

14. "But Not for Me" Gershwin/Ella Fitzgerald "They're writing song of love, but not for me.") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIp1hVISkk

And the one I'm not even worthy to sing; it's a WW II song of loss and longing and heart ache when better men than we often find today--better than me, like my father and many of your fathers and grandfathers--saved us so we could self-destruct:

15. "I'll Be Seeing You" Billy Holiday version ("I'll find you in the morning sun and when the night is through, I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you.") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=566WSwwoWBY

Well, that's enough for a start. Think I'll go get a beer and cry into it.