History TearJerker / CountryMusic

* DixieChicks has a couple:

** His song "My list" sounds like simply a call to appreciate your life...then you watch the music video and realize what it's truly aimed at.
* It might be hard to make it through "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3zs7EV6Tk The Call]]" by Matt Kennon without crying, the first time you hear it.

** "A Love That Will Never Grow Old" from ''BrokebackMountain''.

* Lee Brice, "I Drive Your Truck". He says that, to deal with the pain of losing a brother in battle, he drives said brother's truck. Even as early as the first verse, he sounds like he's choking up.
** Even more tear jerking is that the man the song was based on, the father of a deceased soldier, has said that he can't listen to the song all the way through because it hurts too much.

* Jamey Johnson':

* September 8, 2017 saw [[http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2017/09/08/troy-gentry-and-don-williams-gone-one-tragic-day-country-music/647870001/ the separate deaths of two popular American country music artists]]: Music/DonWilliams and Montgomery Gentry's Troy Gentry. The former died at the age of 78 after an illness, the latter died at 50 in helicopter crash just hours before he and partner Eddie Montgomery were to begin a concert. Many country music artists were deeply upset by their losses.

%% Alphabetize solo artists by last name. Bands are alphabetized by the first word in their name, except Zac Brown Band because that band has a person's full name in it.

* "Remembering" by Ashley Campbell is a moving tribute to her father, the very famous country singer Glen Campbell, and his struggles with Alzheimer's:

* Jamie O'Neal's "Somebody's Hero" 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.

* Music/{{Alabama}}'s "In Pictures", where the narrator looks at pictures of his daughter that divorce keeps him from seeing.

** It gets worse. That song is one of their touching ones, "Top Of The World" is their song that was so depressing, MTV and VH1 refused to continue playing it after viewer complaints. The video was rarely seen from 2002 to 2008 when someone finally uploaded it to Website/YouTube. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVD0MsNSu10 Here it is.]]

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkORnaD2yls Get Ready, Get Set, Don't Go]]" can be tear triggering for people who are about to leave home. The duet version with his daughter, MileyCyrus, can also be tough to hear; it recalls a time when Miley was a carefree, innocent Disney star with a loving, supportive family, and was about to go on to even bigger and better things.

* Go listen to BrooksAndDunn's "Cowgirls Don't Cry." Now try not to bawl. Most likely, you'll fail -- especially if you've ever been involved with horses.

** The version of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" on their second album of the same title is another one. The song is sad enough on its own (a child's experience of his mother's funeral and the family's sorrow), but this version is sung by a who's who of country stars, with the first two verses being sung by JohnnyCash and Roy Acuff, both of whom have passed away...that just compounds the sadness.

*** Depending on whether you're a fan of AnneOfGreenGables, the references in the lyrics and the video can amplify the song's tear-jerking effects.

* "Old Coyote Town" by Don Williams. 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.

* Trace Adkins has a couple:

* Jamey Johnson's "In Color" tells of a young boy looking through an old black-and-white photo album with his elderly grandfather. The photographs highlight the major events of his grandfather's life, including living through the Great Depression, fighting in World War II, and getting married. As the young boy stares in wonder at these photographs, his grandfather simply tells him "You should have seen it in color."

* In "The Dollar" by Jamey Johnson, a little boy asks his mother where his father goes every day. His mother tells him that his father has a job and they pay him for his time.
mama tells her little man\\
your daddy’s got a job\\
and when he goes to work they pay him for his time\\
well the young boy gets to thinking\\
and he heads up to his bedroom\\
and comes running back with a quarter and four dimes\\
is it enough to take me fishing or throw a football in the street\\
if I’m a little short then how much more does daddy need \\
to spend some time with me\\

* MerleHaggard has a couple:

* {{Alabama}}'s "In Pictures", where the narrator looks at pictures of his daughter that divorce keeps him from seeing.

* 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.

* Travis Tritt's "Tell Me I Was Dreaming". You might make it through the song if it's on the radio -- but, if you're watching the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh8Dqr1I-I video]], tears will flow.

* Music/GeorgeJones: "The Possum" was, throughout his career, considered the master of the heartbreak song. Examples abound