'Wet Eye' Songs

[Windle]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVxt7zM1BrU&list=RDeVxt7zM1BrU&index=3&pp=8AUB

Saw them do that live many years ago.......... and had wet eyes, and head. It seemed quite popular to throw beer about. Luckily it was an indoor gig, not a festival, as anyone who's been to an outdoor festival will attest, it's not just beer that gets thrown about .

 

[Beebo]

View: https://youtu.be/_21cZe2eO_I?si=LcTrL2yKJNoUIjnw


A song written to his dead father.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes


View: https://youtu.be/1R0Iwvd4miA?si=AOE3I4GaegDaHxSf


By coincidence I watched Watership Down last night, best rabbit film ever.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I first met my wife - well some time after anyway - I told her that there are 2 songs that make me cry

Sweet Child of Mine - because I used to sing it with my daughter before I lost contact

and

Puff the Magic Dragon - because I see it from the POV of the dragon that finally finds a friend after aeons of loneliness - then the friend goes off and leave him alone again for eternity
see - I'm tearing up now

apparently I'm weird

 

[Pinno718]

When I first met my wife - well some time after anyway - I told her that there are 2 songs that make me cry

Sweet Child of Mine - because I used to sing it with my daughter before I lost contact

and

Puff the Magic Dragon - because I see it from the POV of the dragon that finally finds a friend after aeons of loneliness - then the friend goes off and leave him alone again for eternity
see - I'm tearing up now

apparently I'm weird

Well Puff the magic dragon sentimentality is a little weird though does display altruism and i'm sure the deeper causes would keep a shrink in employment but loosing contact with your own daughter would be leave you raw.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Daughter #3's feller has a 'stang.

When I first met my wife - well some time after anyway - I told her that there are 2 songs that make me cry

Sweet Child of Mine - because I used to sing it with my daughter before I lost contact

Digressing somewhat, have you heard the version from Post Modern Jukebox, with Miche Braden singing?
It's like a 'low-down, dirty, New Orleans' jazz

 

[numbnuts]

View: https://youtu.be/PnjwdrZ2Gqg?si=rwFrmhy1zDPRsYk0

 

[Pinno718]

Digressing somewhat, have you heard the version from Post Modern Jukebox, with Miche Braden singing?
It's like a 'low-down, dirty, New Orleans' jazz

It's quite good:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ3BAF_15yQ

The 'Taken by trees' version is worth a listen.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LGbhD9ZJC8

 

[newts]

This moves me everytime I listen, seeing performed live a couple of years ago gave me very moist eyes.

The Proclaimers performs Sunshine on Leith​

View: https://youtu.be/-LlMiFYfZIg?si=1EvpdOf4TxH-AwLh

 

[Pinno718]

Funny dat ^. Just posted this a moment ago:

Interesting fact for football fans.

Most people know that The Proclaimers are massive Hibs fans and that their fantastic song Sunshine On Leith is sung at games. But something a lot of you do not realise is that many years ago , brothers Craig and Charlie both worked as groundsmen for the club.

They got the sack after players complained that the grass was too long and it ruined their passing game.

The brothers blamed this on DIY store B and Q

They went to Bathgate no mower, Linwood no mower, Irvine no mower, Lochaber no mower, Sutherland no mower, Lewis no mower, Skye no mower...

 

[VinSumRox]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxce3YAjcs&pp=ygUvYmxpbmQgYm95cyBvZiBhbGFiYW1hIHRoaXMgbWF5IGJlIHRoZSBsYXN0IHRpbWU%3D


Couldn't listen to this at all for a year or two after my wife died, still brings on a lump in my throat.

 

[gbb]

View: https://youtu.be/uoe0qoXm2kU?si=DiPGApKlKut3NVVP


This one, shortly after a family loss would get me every time, still does.

It's not the lyrics, it's the emotion...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

You weren't really tryin', next thing you know
There's a test on the counter, next thing you know
She's standin' there cryin', noddin' her head, "Yes"
You're half excited, half scared to death

Jordan Davis
Next Thing You Know


View: https://youtu.be/3c909oqLfao?feature=shared

 

[Toshiba Boy]

View: https://youtu.be/bqJnIsWQKgA?si=A49ow92hTgayDStz


The One I Love, David Gray

In memory of Seth (SBS, killed in action, Afghanistan 2010).

 

[mickle]

This moves me everytime I listen, seeing performed live a couple of years ago gave me very moist eyes.

The Proclaimers performs Sunshine on Leith​

View: https://youtu.be/-LlMiFYfZIg?si=1EvpdOf4TxH-AwLh

My dear departed mother was from Leith. Its a cracking tune.