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    Default Re: Saddest Songs of All Time

    I fear I am about to end this debate right here. Once an Irishman enters the fray of laments, the conversation is over.

    Danny Boy, as sung by the wondrous voice of Eva Cassidy.

    Why it's the saddest song?
    You need to ask? The sorrow of a nation that lost her children. The tragic loss of the songstress. It's an Irish lament.

    Strike against.
    None at all. If you are not weeping your heart out through this song, you surely lack poetry of the soul.

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    Yes, I'm aware it was written by an Englishman. :frown:
    Last edited by Banquo's Ghost; 07-10-2009 at 13:55.
    "If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
    Albert Camus "Noces"

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