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Let’s play.

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You know the drill.

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While I can think of quite a few songs that pull at my heart strings or choke me up on occasion…. there’s only one that turns me into a blubbering mess every single time.

I’m an only child of older parents and was a daddy’s girl from day one.

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I lost him when I was 15 and to be honest, I still haven’t gotten over it.

The song that makes me cry every time?

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How about you?

What tune always makes your eyes leak?

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38 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. Oh I’m so sorry you lost your Dad so young… I can see why this song would resonate deeply for you… Music always moves me deeply so I had to sit for quite awhile, coming up with ‘just one’. I think mine would be ‘Sunshine on my Shoulders’ by John Denver. I used to sing it to my kids when they were little. I can still hear their sweet, high voices – mispronunciations and all – singing that song along with me… it makes me ache for the days when I was their everything 🙂💕

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  2. None really. That would mean I had an emotional bone in my body, which is counterproductive to sound decision making. I do however, take pause when I hear “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and the National Anthem.

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  3. Like my husband, I pause with songs that touch my heart but the ones which get me moving physically and in action seem to affect me most. More often it is the singer or singers performing who move me. When I see singers who go against the odds-Susan Boyle performing. I am moved.

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  6. Lynyrd Skynrd’s Simple Man because it’s exactly what I tell my boys I want them to be and I hope they remember that when I’m gone. Also, as a little girl I was always attached to my dad and when I first heard the song “Daddy’s Hands” by Holly Dunn it would made me cry, always. Even more so now since it will be almost a year since he’s been gone.

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  8. I don’t know that this one makes me overly emotional, but Broomstick Cowboy always pulled at my heartstrings. And then Johnson I think it was who had it banned from AM radio. The honesty in it scared him.

    Of course, it’s better if you don’t took at his unmoveably sprayed hair. Or maybe it was a wig…

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      1. It was a song that was rising up the charts and suddenly disappeared. Why woukd anyone fear a song?
        I had not thought of it for 50 years, but River’s question rang bells, and it took a few minutes to track down. But now that I have rediscovered it, I will have to post about it soon. It is as relevent today as it was in 1965. Possibly even more so!

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      2. Gotcha… putting it that way I’d say “I sing the body electric” from Fame (1980) and I shall be released Gospel cover of Bob Dylan

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  10. My mother had older parents, too, my friend. My grandmother had my mother when she was 42, and my grandfather was 56. He died when my mother was 18 years old.

    There are so many songs that make me cry or feel sad. My childhood best friend died last year, so songs I relate to our friendship have been making me cry a lot lately.

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    1. Very similar. My mother had 5 miscarriages before I was born when she was 40, my father was 54. As for songs, I think it’s what triggers our emotions rather than the actual tone or melody.

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      3. It was. The doctor told her no more pregnancies but she ignored him and basically had to spend 6 months in bed. She always said I was her miracle… and I couldn’t argue with that.
        ❤️

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  12. “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg.

    That song was playing on an icy cold, rainy day in December, 2006 as I was driving to the courthouse in Vancouver, WA to finalize my divorce. Though I was completely over her by then and have never even remotely regretted my decision, those lyrics – about reconnecting with a lost love and reminiscing over the good times while wondering what went wrong – really hit hard that afternoon. To this day, I still can’t hear it without thinking of that sad afternoon. Which means every December I get to relive those emotions, as it’s generally considered a Christmas song and always gets airplay around the holidays.

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