Sad Song Off!

[Saulaac]

I mean, the chords are smooth but the overall sentiment is quite heavy.

[tristan_geoff]

y'all better cry to this because I went out of my way to upload it to youtube, wasn't on there yet

[DJChameleon]

[Guybrush]

Since I mentioned Loudon Wainwright III someplace else, here's his lovely bummer of a song Motel Blues. This is a re-recorded version, though the original is also good - a bit more nasal and desperate.

Some fan made vid, but ah well.

[Shhon]

[Saulaac]

Léo Ferré - "Avec le temps" (with EN subtitles)

[Guybrush]

Gotta love Jerry Reed. He's known for his comedy and while this song is sad... It's also pretty funny and awesome.

[Trollheart]

Listen to the reveal as the orchestra swells and tell me you held in the tears!

[Janiya]

I don't know if this is really sad.

[Janiya]

[Meatwad]

Doves - Kingdom of Rust

[Meatwad]

Kronos Quartet - Lux Aeterna

[Lisnaholic]

^ Good call, Meatwad!
I have that Kronos track on my computer: tbh, I don't play it very often, even though it's really good, especially after it  picks up at 1:30 mins in.

In this thread I want sad songs from all genres it doesnt matter. Come up with your saddest song recommendations and post them.

I'm going to take DJ at his word because this song is about grief in a long ago era:-

Robert W Service was an ambulance driver during the First World War, and so earns the right to compose war poetry - although "poetry" is not what he, or others, called it:-

Service did not call his work poetry. "Verse, not poetry, is what I was after ... something the man in the street would take notice of and the sweet old lady would paste in her album; something the schoolboy would spout and the fellow in the pub would quote. Yet I never wrote to please anyone but myself; it just happened. I belonged to the simple folks whom I liked to please."[

If you are intrigued to learn more about this guy who was combination man of action + writer, you could start here at wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service

[Guybrush]

You probably know this one; a sad song about a guy going to see his girlfriend's dead body. Who doesn't love Cab.

And Nina Simone's version of Strange Fruit is haunting.

[DJChameleon]

This Elliott Smith tune needs to be here