What’s The Saddest Song You Know?

Im not going to say it's a sad song, but, dang, this video. oof.

 
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Ah, sorry. I've never seen that film.

Puff The Magic Dragon hit me like a ton of bricks when I first "heard it" in the context of a parent of children growing too fast.

In 1964 Newsweek Magazine was on a jihad to find drug references in everything, so they did what MSM does, and manufactured a load.

It is and always has been about loss of innocence.
 
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Back story: A mentor of mine lost his wife and two kids in an accident back in the 90’s. I met him much later, and this song played in the background at my shop and his eyes welled up with tears....this man’s pain and sadness I’ve yet to see equaled despite the years that have gone by. Can’t hear it without damn near tearing up myself.
 
Something about the scene in Henry the V when they sing this chant While clearing the battlefield of the dead gets stuck in my throat



i was gonna post this! I fall asleep listening to this movie most nights. Best Shakespeare adaptation ever.
 
Puff The Magic Dragon hit me like a ton of bricks when I first "heard it" in the context of a parent of children growing too fast.

In 1964 Newsweek Magazine was on a jihad to find drug references in everything, so they did what MSM does, and manufactured a load.

It is and always has been about loss of innocence.

I was about 7 or 8; loved dinosaurs - constantly doing school reports on them and reading; was a lot like Calvin with a dinosaur imaginary friend. So hearing this was NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ... I'll always come back Puff. Maybe that's why I've refused to "grow up?"
 



When I was a young man I carried my pack
And I lived the free life of a rover
From the murrays green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my matilda all over
Then in nineteen fifteen my country said son
It's time to stop rambling 'cause there's work to be done
So they gave me a tin hat and they gave me a gun
And they sent me away to the war
And the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we sailed away from the quay
And amidst all the tears and the shouts and the cheers
We sailed off to Gallipoli
How well I remember that terrible day
When the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called suvla bay
We were butchered like lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He showered us with bullets, and he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he'd blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
And a band played waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
And we buried ours and the Turks buried theirs
Then it started all over again
Now those who were living did their best to survive
In that mad world of blood, death and fire
And for seven long weeks I kept myself alive
While the corpses around me piled higher
Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over tit
And when I awoke in my hospital bed
And saw what it had done, Christ I wished I was dead
Never knew there were worse things than dying
And no more I'll go waltzing Matilda
To the green bushes so far and near
For to hump tent and pegs, a man needs two legs
No more waltzing Matilda for me
So they collected the cripples, the wounded and maimed
And they shipped us back home to Australia
The legless, the armless, the blind and insane
Those proud wounded heroes of suvla
And as our ship pulled into circular quay
I looked at the place where me legs used to be
And thank Christ there was nobody waiting for me
To grieve and to mourn and to pity
And a band played Waltzing Matilda
As they carried us down the gangway
But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared
And they turned all their faces away
And now every April I sit on my porch
And I watch the parade pass before me
I see my old comrades, how proudly they march
Reliving their dreams of past glory
I see the old men, all twisted and torn
The forgotten heroes of a forgotten war
And the young people ask me, "what are they Marching for?"
And I ask myself the same question
And the band plays Waltzing Matilda
And the old men still answer to the call
But year after year their numbers get fewer
Some day no one will march there at all
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda
Who'll go a-Waltzing Matilda with me?
 
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I’m throwing a flag.... you can’t post four videos in response to “the saddest song you know”. :p
Genre's.
Classic folk song.
Sad because of video, more than song, also country music.
Sad modern rock/punk song.
Sad modern folk song.


And, no calling flags, when people post joyful songs?
:p
 
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I could have sworn I had already added this one to this excellent list ...

 
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This will make you flat out ugly cry. Vince and Patty at George Jones' funeral.



If I live til next month I'll be 73. I don't know of but One person on this earth that would miss me with the thick sorrow that poor Vince exhibits in this video. I had never seen it....Thank You...
 
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