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    L'Etranger Senior Member Banquo's Ghost's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
    However, this song, Teach Your Children , has special meaning to me. I just started my midnight shift at the jail and was relieved from my post to take an outside phonecall in the watch-commander's office. My mother called to tell me Dad had just passed away. I held up okay till on the drive home that song came on the radio. Then I cried like a baby the rest of the way....
    That touched me deeply, Hosa.

    I feel I should share something personal in return. "I hope you meet again" by the Saw Doctors evokes the heartbreak and loss of the Troubles. My priest, knowing how much I liked the band, had it played at my daughter's funeral and now it is both unbearable and strangely comforting listening to it play.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    That touched me deeply, Hosa.

    I feel I should share something personal in return. "I hope you meet again" by the Saw Doctors evokes the heartbreak and loss of the Troubles. My priest, knowing how much I liked the band, had it played at my daughter's funeral and now it is both unbearable and strangely comforting listening to it play.

    Forgive the idiot video - it's the only version I could find.
    That is a very moving folk song. While sad, it also gives one comfort and hope for the future. Thank you for sharing that and the personal story behind it. For me, music is the auditory touchstone in our lives that we use to associate with life's ups & downs.

    I recall watching a tv program on Irish folk bands a while back. One of the musicians interviewed had a great insight on the tradition and evolution of their music. I don't remember the exact wording, but to paraphrase, " The victors write the history, but the vanquished write the songs."
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    Ballad of The Green Beret - SSG Sadler & R. Moore.

    Why it's the saddest song: Soldiers dying in foreign lands. Wives, mothers & gf's losing their men.

    Strikes against it: It's so unabashedly patriotic that it provides fodder for much and many parodies.
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    I just remembered the song that makes me cry every time I hear it.

    You may know it as the song from that ad with the balls bouncing down the street.
    The cover of heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_4abCWw-w). The original is terribad IMO, but this cover makes me cry every time.

    Ah...damnit I'm listening to it now because I got the link...and the tears start a'flowing.

    edit: its probably only sad because its so very meaningful to me.
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