Beautiful Songs that can bring a touch of sadness...

Chomsky said:

@Demon

I don't know if either of you play or perform?

But given the dearth of covers of this tune, here's an unlikely surprising well-executed bare-bones one, that displays the basic framework of the tune pretty well.

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I am neither a player or performer, just an appreciator. I'm not usually a big fan of covers (there are exceptions) if I love the original, but this wasn't too bad. I just wish the woman had been a little quieter - more in the background, for a background singer.

I don't know why it comes up with a google search link, but it's Crazy Love - Poco

PLEASE COME TO BOSTON is a rather touching song about a guy who never seems to settle down, but keeps on writing his best girl to come here or there... She appears to be waiting, but will anyone wait forever? And in reality--- is Tennessee any worse than anywhere else?

4 Quick Picks (from countless songs to choose from):

AMERICA by Simon & Garfunkel is one of those songs that really begs the question ----- What is my purpose in this life? Why are we here? At least that is how I always imagined this song...

THE HEATHER ON THE HILL is a song from Brigadoon. It was one of the few movies that my mother was quite fond of. I bring it up for 2 reasons. My mom came and got me a couple of times from school when I was really young. And I showered mom a short cut that ran through a pasture behind our house. It would be one of those walks I would later remember after she passed on ---- I even got her to climb a fence! Anyway, the very morning she died, I had gone to hospice to visit her. She was sleeping and I didn't wish to bother her, but somehow I knew the end was close. I started praying about what I should do ---- I was headed to work. As, I was driving I turned on the Jazz station and out of the clear blue sky they were playing this song. It was like a gift from GOD that she had died and I was the last one to see her. Several very, what I'd call supernatural things happen that morning ---- that got me to turn around to see my dad. And I got the call that she had died soon after I arrived at their house. I can only imagine that she enjoyed walking through that pasture as much as I did, and maybe this was just what GOD knew I'd needed to hear ---- who knows? Why would they be playing this on a jazz station? Why was the traffic detoured? Why did that telephone pole break that morning? Someday I may find out ---- but till then it was like a memory awakened, and I was walking with my mother again through that pasture........

Tears in Heaven

This hit hard when she sang it on American Idol...


It was devastating to learn a few years later that the subject of this song had been cheating on her...crushing.

Beauty is sometimes in the expression of relatable pain. Hits particularly hard. But one of those cathartic experiences. Words. Words.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?

PUFF THE MAGIC DRAGON is a pretty child's song about growing up and the loss of childlike innocence:

LittleNipper said:

One song I'm very fond of even when I was a young boy. It once made me wonder about the future that seemed so far away, and now it makes me ponder the past. From The Fantasticks ----- TRY TO REMEMBER

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Here’s one of my favorites, along with the movie in which I first heard it:

Mark

This is a really disappointing thread to me and really highlights just how advanced popular music has come in the 2000s.

This is a very unassuming song, and yet says so much more than all the ranting and raving one may here today called music. BLACKBIRD:

HI LILI, HI LO from the 1952 movie LILI ------ I loved this movie as a kid. I fell in love with Leslie Caron, and she broke my heart. Oh Well...