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Is this the saddest song.... (https://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=330851)

Is this the saddest song....

....ever recorded?

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Now most everyone has heard that song, it is well known.

There are a ton of old blues and country songs pretty damn sad, hell....."took a Smith and Wesson and blew out my brains" how about...."he threw carbolic acid in my face".....then there is..."blood, blood, blood, blood"....remember Ruby took her love to town, old Hank was so lonesome he could cry, J.Frank Wilson in "Last Kiss".

What is your saddest song?

This is probably in my top three sad songs.

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River Man by Nick Drake always gets me. Especially considering that Drake committed suicide. One of the most hypnotic songs I've ever heard, too.

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EDIT: River Man = the ferryman on the river Styx.

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Originally Posted by Raiderhader (Post 14933694)

That's not even the saddest Aaron Watson song.

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This is my submission to the thread. There are some damn rough ones in this thread.

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Originally Posted by Raiderhader (Post 14933663)

I actively hate Tim McGraw but this is a hell of a song.

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Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 14933702)

Fair enough.

I will be listening to all of these before posting any more.

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Originally Posted by Ubeja Vontell (Post 14933612)

....ever recorded?

Now most everyone has heard that song, it is well known.

What is your saddest song?

Yeah...any song about the loss of a child is as sad as it gets. All of My Love by Led Zeppelin is another one of those...

This song by Jason Isbell is a hell of a song.

She said, "Andy, you're better than your past"
Winked at me and drained her glass
Cross-legged on a barstool, like nobody sits anymore
She said, "Andy, you're taking me home"
But I knew she planned to sleep alone
I'd carry her to bed, sweep up the hair from her floor

If I'd ****ed her before she got sick
I'd never hear the end of it
She don't have the spirit for that now
We just drink our drinks and laugh out loud
And bitch about the weekend crowd
And try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

She said, "Andy, you crack me up"
Seagram's in a coffee cup
Sharecropper eyes, and the hair almost all gone
When she was drunk, she made cancer jokes
Made up her own doctors' notes
Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone

But I'd sing her classic country songs
And she'd get high and sing along
She don't have a voice to sing with now
We burn these joints in effigy
And cry about what we used to be
Try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow

I buried her a thousand times, given up my place in line
But I don't give a damn about that now
There's one thing that's real clear to me
No one dies with dignity
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
We just try to ignore the elephant somehow
Somehow
Somehow