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** "Me and Little Andy" has the song's narrator take in a little girl in a ragged dress and her puppy, the latter being the "Little Andy" referred to in the title, who turn up on her doorstep on a stormy night, only for both the girl and the puppy to die in their sleep. (The cause of death is not mentioned.)
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** "Me and Little Andy" has the song's narrator take in a little girl in a ragged dress and her puppy, the latter being the "Little Andy" referred to in the title, who turn up on her the narrator's doorstep on a stormy night, only for both the girl and the puppy to die in their sleep. (The cause of death is not mentioned.)
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** "Me and Little Andy" has the song's narrator take in a little girl in a ragged dress and her puppy, the latter being the "Little Andy" referred to in the title, who turn up on her doorstep on a stormy night, only for both the girl and the puppy to die in their sleep. (The cause of death is not mentioned.)
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* Ashley Gearing's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U11u9uEr9mg Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?]]" is pretty sad in its own right — its lyrics make it pretty clear that she is missing someone who has died. At first, you'd almost think it's directed to a lost lover, but when she softly says, "I miss you, daddy" at the end, the emotions get turned UpToEleven.
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* Ashley Gearing's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U11u9uEr9mg Can You Hear Me When I Talk to You?]]" is pretty sad in its own right — its lyrics make it pretty clear that she is missing someone who has died. At first, you'd almost think it's directed to a lost lover, but when she softly says, "I miss you, daddy" at the end, the emotions get turned UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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*** Turned UpToEleven when a few country stations under the Froggy brand played this a few days after the death of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen whose emotional abuse suffered at the hands of her parents drove her to suicide in December 2014, and dedicated it to her memory.
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*** Turned UpToEleven up to eleven when a few country stations under the Froggy brand played this a few days after the death of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen whose emotional abuse suffered at the hands of her parents drove her to suicide in December 2014, and dedicated it to her memory.
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* "That's My Job" by Music/ConwayTwitty can bring anyone who's ever lost a father to tears.
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** "That's My Job"by Music/ConwayTwitty can bring anyone who's ever lost a father to tears.tears.
** "It's Only Make Believe" is this for anyone who's tried everything they could to fix a failing relationship.
** "That's My Job"
** "It's Only Make Believe" is this for anyone who's tried everything they could to fix a failing relationship.
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* Roy Clark's "Yesterday, When I Was Young." Clark, the host of ''Series/HeeHaw'' and the guy who could make you crack up with laughter one minute, [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent does a complete 180]] in this song about an aging man who realizes, too late, he wasted his entire life, opportunities, everything that's good on the many poor, if not outright bad choices he made in his life.
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* Roy Clark's "Yesterday, When I Was Young." Clark, the host of ''Series/HeeHaw'' and the guy who could make you crack up with laughter one minute, [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent does a complete 180]] 180 in this song about an aging man who realizes, too late, he wasted his entire life, opportunities, everything that's good on the many poor, if not outright bad choices he made in his life.
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** "Down from Dover" ends with a baby being born but the singer mentions, "Something's wrong; it's too still. I hear no crying", implying a TragicStillbirth.
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* Raye was known for his tearjerking ballads, which alternatively celebrated the finding of true love, and mourned the loss of it. The latter are especially good at this.
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** "Build Me a Daddy", a song about a boy whose father died asking a toymaker if he can make a new father for him.
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* Compare Music/CowboyTroy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIWpd3yJcD0 If You Don't Wanna Love Me]]" to the rest of his career. So what if the song's a rap; it's still one of the most sincere and saddest raps you'll ever hear (about various women who feel unloved in their relationships with family or lovers). The chilling chorus vocals from Sarah Buxton certainly don't hurt.
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* Compare Music/CowboyTroy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIWpd3yJcD0 If You Don't Wanna Love Me]]" to the rest of his career. So what if the song's a rap; it's still It's one of the most sincere and saddest raps rap song you'll ever hear (about various women who feel unloved in their relationships with family or lovers). The chilling chorus vocals from Sarah Buxton certainly don't hurt.
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* Rex Allen: The former silver-screen cowboy had his tearjerker with the 1962 hit "Don't Go Near the Indians," a song where a middle-aged man implores his son (through whom the song's perspective is sung) to stay away from the Native American reservation, but for years refuses to explain why. Then the son, now in his late teens, has fallen in love with a stunningly beautiful teenaged girl, about a year older than him, called Nova Lee. The son wants to marry her, and finally the father's years of hem-hawing around the truth catches up with him, and he must explain why, setting up the tearjerking heartbreak: years earlier, when the boy was just a baby, he was kidnapped from the reservation in retaliation for a rouge tribesman killing his own little boy ... and he feared the day he would meet Nova Lee ... because he knew the son and Nova Lee were biologically brother and sister.
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* Rex Allen: The former silver-screen cowboy had his tearjerker with the 1962 hit "Don't Go Near the Indians," a song where a middle-aged man implores his son (through whom the song's perspective is sung) to stay away from the Native American reservation, but for years refuses to explain why. Then the son, now in his late teens, has fallen in love with a stunningly beautiful teenaged girl, about a year older than him, called Nova Lee. The son wants to marry her, and finally the father's years of hem-hawing around the truth catches up with him, and he must explain why, setting up the tearjerking heartbreak: years earlier, when the boy was just a baby, he was kidnapped from the reservation in retaliation for a rouge rogue tribesman killing his own little boy ... and he feared the day he would meet Nova Lee ... because he knew the son and Nova Lee were biologically brother and sister.
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** "Who's That Man", a song about a divorced father watching his ex-wife and their kids move on with their lives while he's stuck in the past.
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** Especially evident in Randy's songs about divorce or couples on the brink of divorce. Randy evokes a sense of realism in songs such as "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home" (although the latter steers towards a happy ending).
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** Especially evident in Randy's songs about divorce or couples on the brink of divorce. Randy evokes a sense of realism in songs such as "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home" (although the latter [[TearDryer steers towards a happy ending).ending]]).
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* Music/RandyTravis' "Three Wooden Crosses". A "farmer and a teacher, hooker and a preacher" are riding a bus. The preacher is trying to convince the hooker to repent before the bus crashes. She's the only survivor among the four, and the second verse reveals what the other two have left behind for their family. Then comes TheReveal that the hooker cleaned herself up and became the mother of the preacher who told the story to the narrator.
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* Music/RandyTravis' Music/RandyTravis has a few of these.
** Especially evident in Randy's songs about divorce or couples on the brink of divorce. Randy evokes a sense of realism in songs such as "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home" (although the latter steers towards a happy ending).
** "Good Intentions" will break your heart. It's about a man's promise to his mother to be good, only get arrested. He then finds out his mother died while he was in prison and that he isn't allowed to see his son.
-->But mama, my intentions were the best
** "Promises" is a soft ballad about an adulterer making empty promises to his wife. It hits hard when he realizes the consequences in store for him.
** "[[AntiChristmasSong White Christmas Makes Me Blue]]" is a heartstring-tugging "missing you at Christmas" song. On top of the narrator trying to keep up with Christmas traditions, the person is trying to avoid hearing "White Christmas" because of all the past holidays they spent together. The second verse even implies that the love interest is dead.
** "Three Wooden Crosses". A "farmer and a teacher, hooker and a preacher" are riding a bus. The preacher is trying to convince the hooker to repent before the bus crashes. She's the only survivor among the four, and the second verse reveals what the other two have left behind for their family. Then comes TheReveal that the hooker cleaned herself up and became the mother of the preacher who told the story to the narrator.
** Especially evident in Randy's songs about divorce or couples on the brink of divorce. Randy evokes a sense of realism in songs such as "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home" (although the latter steers towards a happy ending).
** "Good Intentions" will break your heart. It's about a man's promise to his mother to be good, only get arrested. He then finds out his mother died while he was in prison and that he isn't allowed to see his son.
-->But mama, my intentions were the best
** "Promises" is a soft ballad about an adulterer making empty promises to his wife. It hits hard when he realizes the consequences in store for him.
** "[[AntiChristmasSong White Christmas Makes Me Blue]]" is a heartstring-tugging "missing you at Christmas" song. On top of the narrator trying to keep up with Christmas traditions, the person is trying to avoid hearing "White Christmas" because of all the past holidays they spent together. The second verse even implies that the love interest is dead.
** "Three Wooden Crosses". A "farmer and a teacher, hooker and a preacher" are riding a bus. The preacher is trying to convince the hooker to repent before the bus crashes. She's the only survivor among the four, and the second verse reveals what the other two have left behind for their family. Then comes TheReveal that the hooker cleaned herself up and became the mother of the preacher who told the story to the narrator.
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* Compare Cowboy Troy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIWpd3yJcD0 If You Don't Wanna Love Me]]" to the rest of his career. So what if the song's a rap; it's still one of the most sincere and saddest raps you'll ever hear (about various women who feel unloved in their relationships with family or lovers). The chilling chorus vocals from Sarah Buxton certainly don't hurt.
* Billy Ray Cyrus has a couple:
* Billy Ray Cyrus has a couple:
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* Compare Cowboy Troy's Music/CowboyTroy's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIWpd3yJcD0 If You Don't Wanna Love Me]]" to the rest of his career. So what if the song's a rap; it's still one of the most sincere and saddest raps you'll ever hear (about various women who feel unloved in their relationships with family or lovers). The chilling chorus vocals from Sarah Buxton certainly don't hurt.
*Billy Ray Cyrus Music/BillyRayCyrus has a couple:
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* Gail Davies' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl8Wv4o4PEM&ab_channel=GailDavies-Topic Grandma's Song]]" is a touching tribute to her grandmother following said grandmother's death. The song actually opens with her grandmother singing an old Irish folk song, and ends with Gail singing the same song by herself.
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* The Statler Brothers had quite a number of these. To name a couple:
** ''Silver Medals and Sweet Memories'' is sung from the perspective of a grown son whose mother was widowed during World War I. The first verse reveals that she didn't know she was pregnant with him when his father left for war "and she never heard from him again & he never heard of me." The second verse goes on to say that she was so in love that she never remarried.
** ''Silver Medals and Sweet Memories'' is sung from the perspective of a grown son whose mother was widowed during World War I. The first verse reveals that she didn't know she was pregnant with him when his father left for war "and she never heard from him again & he never heard of me." The second verse goes on to say that she was so in love that she never remarried.
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* The Statler Brothers had quite a number of these. To these in their day. Just to name a couple:
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**''Silver "Silver Medals and Sweet Memories'' Memories" is sung from the perspective of a grown son whose mother was widowed during World War I. The first verse reveals that she didn't know she was pregnant with him when his father left for war "and she never heard from him again & again, and he never heard of me." The second verse goes on to say that she was so in love that she never remarried. remarried.
** "More Than a Name on a Wall" has the singer witnessing a mother at a more contemporary war memorial, using "pen and paper as to trace her memories" and praying, telling God how much she missed her boy, remembering "a little boy playing war since he was three," how much he missed the family while he was away (especially on Christmas Eve), and asking, "Lord, could you tell him he's more than a name on a wall."
** The verses of "Some I Wrote" have a songwriter telling his wife what to have put on his tombstone when his time comes, while the chorus lists the people he wrote songs for. The tune is surprisingly upbeat for the message, which ends with "but the most I wrote for you."
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** "More Than a Name on a Wall" has the singer witnessing a mother at a more contemporary war memorial, using "pen and paper as to trace her memories" and praying, telling God how much she missed her boy, remembering "a little boy playing war since he was three," how much he missed the family while he was away (especially on Christmas Eve), and asking, "Lord, could you tell him he's more than a name on a wall."
** The verses of "Some I Wrote" have a songwriter telling his wife what to have put on his tombstone when his time comes, while the chorus lists the people he wrote songs for. The tune is surprisingly upbeat for the message, which ends with "but the most I wrote for you."
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*** The very first time he performed it was live & unplugged, just him and his guitar, at an awards show around a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Brad Paisley stated in his introduction that Jackson had written it about a week after that fateful day. You could hear a pin drop throughout the entire song...then the audience went nuts at the end.
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** His cover of George Jones' "He stopped loving her today" and the Grand Ole Opry tribute to the late country legend. Not even one verse in and every one was crying.
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* You wouldn't expect Music/TobyKeith to turn up on this list, but he nailed it with "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)", a tribute to basketball player/jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale, a close friend of Keith's.
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* You wouldn't expect Music/TobyKeith to turn up on this list, but he but...
** He nailed it with "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)", a tribute to basketball player/jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale, a close friend of Keith's.
** He nailed it with "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)", a tribute to basketball player/jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale, a close friend of Keith's.
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** The song is tearjerking in a sentimental way - it's an age progression song that describes a mother as being a hero first to her infant daughter, then giving the daughter away to be married, and finally her daughter being her hero taking care of her in a nursing home. The way it is laid out, first listing extraordinary things the mother ''hasn't'' done (ranging from rescuing someone from a burning building to walking on the moon, to singing a sold out show) and then declaring that she's a hero anyway, is what makes it such a tearjerker.
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** The song is tearjerking in a sentimental way - it's an age progression song that describes a mother as being a hero first to her infant daughter, then giving the daughter away to be married, and finally her daughter being her hero taking care of her in a nursing home. The way it is laid out, first listing extraordinary things the mother ''hasn't'' done (ranging from rescuing someone from a burning building building, to walking on the moon, to singing to a sold out show) and then declaring that she's a hero anyway, is what makes it such a tearjerker.
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* Music/BradPaisley's "He Didn't Have To Be" is a song about a guy whose childhood involved a single mom going out on dates (which he compared to job interviews) hoping to meet someone who would be the dad to her kid. Much like "I Don't Call Him Daddy" below, anyone who's been on any end of the situation (the kid, the mom and the new dad) can definitely identify.
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* Music/BradPaisley's "He Didn't Have To Be" is a song about a guy whose childhood involved a single mom going out on dates (which he compared compares to job interviews) hoping to meet someone who would be the dad to her kid. Much like "I Don't Call Him Daddy" below, anyone who's been on any end of the situation (the kid, the mom and the new dad) can definitely identify.
* The Statler Brothers had quite a number of these. To name a couple:
** ''Silver Medals and Sweet Memories'' is sung from the perspective of a grown son whose mother was widowed during World War I. The first verse reveals that she didn't know she was pregnant with him when his father left for war "and she never heard from him again & he never heard of me." The second verse goes on to say that she was so in love that she never remarried.
** ''Silver Medals and Sweet Memories'' is sung from the perspective of a grown son whose mother was widowed during World War I. The first verse reveals that she didn't know she was pregnant with him when his father left for war "and she never heard from him again & he never heard of me." The second verse goes on to say that she was so in love that she never remarried.
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* Music/RandyTravis's "Three Wooden Crosses". A "farmer and a teacher, hooker and a preacher" are riding a bus. The preacher is trying to convince the hooker to repent before the bus crashes. She's the only survivor among the four, and the second verse reveals what the other two have left behind for their family. Then comes TheReveal that the hooker cleaned herself up and became the mother of the preacher who told the story to the narrator.
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* Music/RandyTravis's Music/RandyTravis' "Three Wooden Crosses". A "farmer and a teacher, hooker and a preacher" are riding a bus. The preacher is trying to convince the hooker to repent before the bus crashes. She's the only survivor among the four, and the second verse reveals what the other two have left behind for their family. Then comes TheReveal that the hooker cleaned herself up and became the mother of the preacher who told the story to the narrator.
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* "Old Coyote Town" by Music/DonWilliams. If the poignant opening notes on the piano don't get you, the wistfully nostalgic lyrics about the slow death of the singer's home town will.
* If Music/MarkWills's "Don't Laugh at Me" doesn't have you crying in the first part, the second will get you with "I lost my wife and little boy/ someone crossed that yellow line/ the day we laid 'em in the ground /is the day i lost my mind/ right now I'm down to holding/ this little cardboard sign".
* If Music/MarkWills's "Don't Laugh at Me" doesn't have you crying in the first part, the second will get you with "I lost my wife and little boy/ someone crossed that yellow line/ the day we laid 'em in the ground /is the day i lost my mind/ right now I'm down to holding/ this little cardboard sign".
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* "Old Coyote Town" by Music/DonWilliams. If the poignant opening notes on the piano don't get you, the wistfully nostalgic lyrics about the slow death of the singer's home town hometown will.
* IfMusic/MarkWills's Music/MarkWills' "Don't Laugh at Me" doesn't have you crying in the first part, the second will get you with "I lost my wife and little boy/ someone crossed that yellow line/ the day we laid 'em in the ground /is ground/ is the day i I lost my mind/ right now I'm down to holding/ this little cardboard sign".
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7_0v5zZB94 Till the Last Shot's Fired]]" Is a story told from the perspective of several dying soldiers. Who wish nothing more than to come home, but know they can't do so until the last shot is fired.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7_0v5zZB94 Till the Last Shot's Fired]]" Is a story told from the perspective of several dying soldiers. Who soldiers who wish nothing more than to come home, but know they can't do so until the last shot is fired.
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* Rex Allen: The former silver-screen cowboy had his tearjerker with the 1962 hit "Don't Go Near the Indians," a song where a middle-aged man implores his son (through whom the song's perspective is from) to stay away from the Native American reservation, but for years refuses to explain why. Then, the son, now in his late teens, has fallen in love with a stunningly beautiful teenaged girl, about a year older than him, called Nova Lee. The son wants to marry her, and finally the father's years of hem hawing around the truth catches up with him, and he must explain why, setting up the tearjerking heartbreak: Years earlier, when the boy was just a baby, he was kidnapped from the reservation, in retaliation for a rouge tribesman killing his own little boy ... and he feared the day he would meet Nova Lee ... because he knew the son and Nova Lee were biologically brother and sister.
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* Rex Allen: The former silver-screen cowboy had his tearjerker with the 1962 hit "Don't Go Near the Indians," a song where a middle-aged man implores his son (through whom the song's perspective is from) sung) to stay away from the Native American reservation, but for years refuses to explain why. Then, Then the son, now in his late teens, has fallen in love with a stunningly beautiful teenaged girl, about a year older than him, called Nova Lee. The son wants to marry her, and finally the father's years of hem hawing hem-hawing around the truth catches up with him, and he must explain why, setting up the tearjerking heartbreak: Years years earlier, when the boy was just a baby, he was kidnapped from the reservation, reservation in retaliation for a rouge tribesman killing his own little boy ... and he feared the day he would meet Nova Lee ... because he knew the son and Nova Lee were biologically brother and sister.
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* Sherrié Austin's "Streets of Heaven" is sung from the persepctive of a mother sitting by her daughter's side in ICU, bargaining with God for her life. The transition from "God, you can't take her, she's my little girl!" to "God, if she dies tonight, please take care of her in heaven for me" can gets one every time.
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* Sherrié Austin's "Streets of Heaven" is sung from the persepctive perspective of a mother sitting by her daughter's side in ICU, bargaining with God for her life. The transition from "God, you can't take her, she's my little girl!" to "God, if she dies tonight, please take care of her in heaven for me" can gets one every time.
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** In the music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiOe-T14Bsg I Don't Have to be Me ('Til Monday)]]", an ecentric-looking man has a magical door that sends people to their ideal weekend. The scenarios range from a nun in boxing equipment to your typical biker stereotype in a three-piece suit to a businessman in drag. The true TearJerker is when a homeless woman goes through the portal, and nothing really appears different... except she's clutching a new, red hat to herself, an expression of pure, absolute ''joy'' and appreciation on her face. After seeing all sorts of rather big changes, seeing this humble one, possibly for the person most appreciative of the gift, is a true tear jerker.
** "Waitin' on Joe". A first, you think it's just about a guy with a dead beat friend who's constantly holding him back. The man laments that if he could just leave Joe behind, he could get on with his life. Then you find out that Joe really did try to be on time for their new job by racing the train, only to have the train win. Then you find out that Joe's not his friend, but his ''brother''. Yeah.
** "Waitin' on Joe". A first, you think it's just about a guy with a dead beat friend who's constantly holding him back. The man laments that if he could just leave Joe behind, he could get on with his life. Then you find out that Joe really did try to be on time for their new job by racing the train, only to have the train win. Then you find out that Joe's not his friend, but his ''brother''. Yeah.
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** In the music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiOe-T14Bsg I Don't Have to be Me ('Til Monday)]]", an ecentric-looking eccentric-looking man has a magical door that sends people to their ideal weekend. The scenarios range from a nun in boxing equipment to your typical biker stereotype in a three-piece suit to a businessman in drag. The true TearJerker is when a homeless woman goes through the portal, and nothing really appears different... except she's clutching a new, red hat to herself, an expression of pure, absolute ''joy'' and appreciation on her face. After seeing all sorts of rather big changes, seeing this humble one, possibly for the person most appreciative of the gift, is a true tear jerker.
** "Waitin' on Joe". A first, you think it's just about a guy with adead beat deadbeat friend who's constantly holding him back. The man laments that if he could just leave Joe behind, he could get on with his life. Then you find out that Joe really did try to be on time for their new job by racing the train, only to have the train win. Then you find out that Joe's not his friend, but his ''brother''. Yeah.
** "Waitin' on Joe". A first, you think it's just about a guy with a
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** Even if you strongly dislike country music, the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM If I Die Young]]" can reduce you to tears especially if you know someone who died in their teens. The lyrics are simple and poignant: ''The sharp knife of a short life, well, I've had just enough time....funny when you're dead how people start listening."
*** ''Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother. She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors. Life ain't always what you think it oughta be, no- ain't even grey but she buries her baby..."
*** ''Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother. She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors. Life ain't always what you think it oughta be, no- ain't even grey but she buries her baby..."
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** Even if you strongly dislike country music, the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM If I Die Young]]" can reduce you to tears especially if you know someone who died in their teens. The lyrics are simple and poignant: ''The sharp knife of a short life, well, I've had just enough time....time...funny when you're dead how people start listening."
*** ''Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother. She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors. Life ain't always what you think it oughta be,no- no - ain't even grey but she buries her baby..."
*** ''Lord make me a rainbow, I'll shine down on my mother. She'll know I'm safe with you when she stands under my colors. Life ain't always what you think it oughta be,
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-->"On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam, were ambushed by over 1200 VC. 48 American soldiers lost their lives that day. Lawrence Joel, a medic, became the first living black man since the Spanish-American to receive the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for saving so many lives in the midst of battle that day. Our friend Miles Harris -- the guy who gave Big Kenny his top hat -- was one of the wounded who lived. This song is his story. 'Caught in action of killed or be killed, great love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend'."
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-->"On November 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam, were ambushed by over 1200 VC. 48 American soldiers lost their lives that day. Lawrence Joel, a medic, became the first living black man since the Spanish-American to receive the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for saving so many lives in the midst of battle that day. Our friend Miles Harris -- the guy who gave Big Kenny his top hat -- was one of the wounded who lived. This song is his story. 'Caught in action of killed kill or be killed, great greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for a friend'."
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** "Sissy's Song" packs quite the emotional punch as well.
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** "Sissy's Song" Song", which he wrote about a housekeeper that died suddenly, packs quite the emotional punch as well.
* Country music pair Joey and Rory's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o1gMwbWqpQ If Not For You]] is a heartwarming song about how much a couple loves one another, but it becomes a tear jerker now that Joey died of cancer on March 4, 2016.
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJiNYFBwaMI Cherokee Highway]]" by Western Flyer is a PrejudiceAesop that ends on an extremely dark note. Two boys, Kevin (who is white) and Willy (who is black) watch their town get torn apart by racial violence. Willy's father is killed by the Ku Klux Klan, and Kevin discovers that his own father is one of the Klansmen. This leads to Kevin's house getting burned down in revenge with him still inside; Willy rushes in to try and save Kevin, but both of them end up dying. The song ends with the white father realizing that he can't even tell the two boys' bodies apart.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRcI0P2f90 "Flowers"]], by Chris Young (originally by Billy Yates). Starts out somewhat generically, but you can hear the singer's pain as he sings to his ex-wife/girlfriend [[spoiler:whom he had killed by driving drunk]].
* Country music pair Joey and Rory's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o1gMwbWqpQ If Not For You]] is a heartwarming song about how much a couple loves one another, but it becomes a tear jerker now that Joey died of cancer on March 4, 2016.
* Country music pair Joey and Rory's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o1gMwbWqpQ If Not For You]] is a heartwarming song about how much a couple loves one another, but it becomes a tear jerker now that Joey died of cancer on March 4, 2016.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvRcI0P2f90 "Flowers"]], by Chris Young (originally "Flowers" by Billy Yates). Starts Yates starts out somewhat generically, but you can hear the singer's pain as he sings to his ex-wife/girlfriend [[spoiler:whom he had killed by driving drunk]].
* Country music pair Joey and Rory's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o1gMwbWqpQ If Not For You]] is a heartwarming song about how much a couple loves one another, but it becomes a tear jerker now that Joey died of cancer on March 4, 2016.
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* Johnny Paycheck's "Old Violin". A dejected man compares himself to "an old violin / Soon to be put away and never played again". The song concludes with "And just like that it hit me / That old violin and I, we're just alike / We'd give our all to music / And soon we'll give our lives".
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* Johnny Paycheck's "Old Violin". A dejected man compares himself to "an old violin / Soon to be put away and never played again". The song concludes with "And just like that it hit me / That old violin and I, we're just alike / We'd give our all to music / And soon we'll give our lives". Even more so with Daryle Singletary's cover version from 2002; Paycheck recited the last line from his hospital bed only months before his death, and Singletary died in 2018.
