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'Danny Boy' is guaranteed to cause me to choke up and I know that my dad wants it played at his funeral so I also know I'm going to end up as a blubbering wreck in the corner
Ray Price, one of my favourite singers passed away recently. I've always liked his version of "Danny Boy."
Re: What songs make you happy??.... Or make you Cry?
'Danny Boy' is guaranteed to cause me to choke up and I know that my dad wants it played at his funeral so I also know I'm going to end up as a blubbering wreck in the corner. The other one that makes me sad is the very obscure 'Slower Now' by the alternative band 'The Clavier'.
Happy? The utterly trashy 'Love Missile F1-11' by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. So many great memories of going mad on the dancefloor in clubs of the 80s. Can totally embarrass the kids leaping around the living room like a loon when that's on.
My favourite song of all time is Bobby Goldsboro's Summer (The First Time). I recall being a very embarrassed 12 year old when my mum told me what it was actually about! I smile about that to this day.
Re: What songs make you happy??.... Or make you Cry?
Cledus Maggard (Jay Hugely) -- "One Small Pearl" (1976)
In Ward 3, Maternity, he stood there weeping
With his good wife gone, a daughter in her place
Then that night he left the baby warm and sleeping
At a doorstep with some words on dimestore lace
So she was to stay, her tender years protected
An orphan searching for a loving face
And each day she watched the window and expected
Someone who'd read her legacy of lace
Here's one small pearl in a troubled ocean
One baby girl from God above
Shine her gently with deep devotion
And she'll glow forever with the light of love
At twenty-one, through with orphan living
She took a bus as far as she could go
Went to school to learn the art of giving
With a lonely boy she'd known an hour or so
They were married by a justice after hours
But the years of pain were gone without a trace
And she clutched a small bouquet of plastic flowers
And gave her love a ring of dimestore lace
Here's one small pearl in a troubled ocean
One baby girl from God above
Shine her gently with deep devotion
And she'll glow forever with the light of love
Three lonely boys she married left her hurting
For a dollar you can buy her tattered grace
She views life through a faded hotel curtain
From the window floats an ageing piece of lace
The county closed her grave with no one grieving
A cross with just her name to mark the space
And they still don't who had some cause for leaving
These words upon a bit of marbled lace
Here's one small pearl in a troubled ocean
One baby girl from God above
Shine her gently with deep devotion
And she'll glow forever with the light of love
Re: What songs make you happy??.... Or make you Cry?
My favourite song of all time is Bobby Goldsboro's Summer (The First Time). I recall being a very embarrassed 12 year old when my mum told me what it was actually about! I smile about that to this day.
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