Sad Songs

I recently saw a list of the Top 25 Sad Songs on an Internet website and it was a very lame list that did not include many classics.  I'll bet CC members can compile a better list. 

I'll start:

Say Goodbye to Love - Carpenters

Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin

Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

Jeremy -- Pearl Jam

Let's Put the X in Sex - Kiss

Loreena McKennit sings the Lady of Shalott... poem written by Tennyson

Best I Ever Had - Gary Alan

Theme fron Against All Oddds by  Phil Collins

Theme from Love Story

Ben - Michael Jackson

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald -- Gordon Lightfoot

Brandy (your a fine girl) - Looking Glass

Not classics but for all you country fans how about Alyssa Lies by Jason Michael Carroll. Or Travis Tritt's- Anymore. Or about half of all country songs for that matter!

Yea country and then of course ALL "Blues" music LOL

Shower the People -- James Taylor

Tom's Diner -- Suzanne Vega

I'll Always Love You - Dolly Parton/Whitney Houston

I Write the Songs -- Barry Manilow

My First Night Alone Without You - Bonnie Raitt

Bless the Beasts and the Children - The Carpenters? - but maybe only because the movie is so sad....

Born Free

To Sir With Love - Lulu

and Barbara Streisand's The Way We Were will always make me cry!

Enter Sandman -- Metallica

I can't remember who sing it but how about

When You Get Where You Are Going

Christmas Shoes....by Newsong

http://www.minibite.com/christmas/christmas/s hoes.htm

(even though this is about a little boys mom passing away on christmas eve, it makes me think of my grandma, she passed away on christmas eve in 2004)

Machinehead -- Bush

Good morning, heartache - Billie Holiday

How about "I got tears in my ears from lying on my back crying my eyes out over you"

I have an uncle who cries everytime he hears "Danny Boy"

?I Tried?- Geto Boys

?Wish I Didn?t Miss You?- Angie Stone

?Drowning In My Tears?- Ray Charles and all others

?Love Don?t Love Nobody?- The Spinners

?I Wouldn?t Treat A Dog The Way You Treated Me?- Bobby Blue Bland

?Missing You?- Diana Ross

?Wish It Would Rain?- The Temptations

?Bill?- Peggy Scott

?Patches?- Clarence Carter

?I Miss You?- Aaron Hall

?Please Don?t Go?- Immature

?I?m So Tired Of Being  Alone?- Al Green

?Because I Love You?- Lenny Williams

?Ever SO Clear?- Bushwick Bill

Damn, I could go on and on! Yeah, I threw some rap in there, because those are some sad songs to me.

Coat of many colors - Dolly Parton

I forgot my main one: "I'd Rather Go Blind"- Etta James, Clarence Carter, and everyone else who covered it.

Good call, Chrisbaptiste - I'm going to get a Dimebag memorial tattoo soon.

"Another Lonely Day" by Ben Harper