Top Ten Sad songs

[Sunny]

My Name Is Luka is a song about child abuse/domestic violence.

 

[Phil B.]

Eli The Barrow Boy: Decemberists

Eli, the barrowboy, you're the old town
Sells coal and marigolds and he cries out all down the day
Below the tamarac she is crying
Corn cobs and candlewax for the buying, all down the day

Would I could afford to buy my love a fine robe
Made of gold and silk arabian thread
She is dead and gone and lying in a pine grove
And I must push my barrow all the day
And I must push my barrow all the day

Eli, the barrowboy, when they found him
Dressed all in corduroy, he had drowned in the river down the way
They laid his body down in a churchyard
But still when the moon is out, with his pushcart, he calls down the day

Would I could afford to buy my love a fine gown
Made of gold and silk arabian thread
But I am dead and gone and lying in a church ground
But still I push my barrow all the day
Still I push my barrow all the day

 

[Phil B.]

Down In The Willow Garden: Everly Brothers

I had a bottle of Burgundy wine
My love, she did not know
So I poisoned that dear little girl
On the banks below

I drew a saber through her
It was a bloody knife
I threw her in the river
Which was a dreadful sign

My father often told me
[- From: DOWN IN THE WILLOW GARDEN Lyrics - EVERLY BROTHERS -]
That money would set me free
If I would murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly

My father sits at his cabin door
Wiping his tear-dimmed eyes
For his only son soon shall walk
To yonder scaffold high

My race is run, beneath the sun
The scaffold now waits for me
For I did murder that dear little girl
Whose name was Rose Connelly

 

[Magic]

I will keep adding to this when I think of more, but no one does sadness better than country music:


Vince Gill -Go Rest High on That Mountain



Johnny Cash - Hurt



Tim McGraw - If You're Reading This



Willie Nelson & Ray Charles - Seven Spanish Angels



Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses

 

[Jake T]

The Outfield - Everytime You Cry -

 

[Tek_54]

what's on My Mind (Kansas), make feel sad, and I don't know why