Let’s make this thread a real tearjerker 
These are the ones I can think of top of my head…
Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart-Bee Gees
Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton
The River-Bruce Springsteen
Nothing Compares 2 U-That bald lady’s version, can’t remember her name
The Living Years-Mike and the Mechanics
In the Air Tonight-Phil Collins
November Rain-GnR
Creep-Radiohead
I grew up watching my dad get teary whenever he heard “danny boy” so i therefore also get teary when i hear that cause it makes me sad to think of my dad getting sad over that song.
Happy Birthday
Good call. Bring a tear to me eyes every time.
any well-sung version of any national anthem can be pretty moving…
Oi! Where’s that Madiba/Johnny Clegg video now?
“Hurt” Nine Inch Nails, and the Johnny Cash version, too.
Anything that’s hoppity hippity or rap and any mandopop.
I find “Fields of Gold” by Sting to be a sad and haunting song.
The song is about outdoor tiffing, right? 
Dickey Lee - Tell Laura I Love Her
[quote]Tommy and Laura were lovers he wanted to give here everything
Flowers presents and most of all a wedding ring
He saw a sign for a stockcar race a thousand dollar prize it read
He couldn’t get Laura on the phone so to her mother Tommy said
Tell Laura I love her tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura I may be late I’ve something to do that cannot wait
He drove his car to the racing ground he was the youngest driver there
The crowd roared as they started to race
Around the truck they drove at a deadly pace
No one knows what happened that day how his car overturned in flames
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck
With his dying breath they heard him say
Tell Laura I love her tell Laura I need her
Tell Laura not to cry my love for her will never die
Now in the chapel Laura prays for her Tommy who passed away
It was just for Laura that he lived and died alone in the chapel she can hear him cry
Tell Laura I love her…
My love for her will never die[/quote]
I will always love you-Huston version
Leavin’ on a jet plane. I was listening to it the night mom passed on.
the first half of Marvin Gaye’s “Whats Goin’ On” album
The Schoolhouse Rock song “Number 8” - it was also used at the beginning of “The Squid and the Whale”
“Ache Breaky Heart” makes me cry…because of my bleeding ears.
Song to the Siren, Cocteau Twins with that amazing Elizabeth Fraser vocal.
Cold by Moby
Technically I think that’s sweet, sweet melancholy, and with that in mind, Wide Open Road by the Triffids is right up there and sitting pretty with Tim Buckley and Sweet Surrender; the latter cos I hate it when that happens.
HG
“Tiny Tears” or “Raindrops” by The Tindersticks
I think beside naming the songs that make you sad, it is more interesting to know why they make you sad. 
The stories behind…
‘Moonhead’ by the Thin White Rope makes me sad; it is because of ‘an affair to remember.’
Pain, loss, unremitting suffering … it has to be “Donald Whaur’s Yer Troosers.”
[quote=“kate.lin”]I think beside naming the songs that make you sad, it is more interesting to know why they make you sad.
The stories behind…
‘Moonhead’ by the Thin White Rope makes me sad; it is because of ‘a fair to remember.’[/quote]
trust me… you don’t want to know…
and Sandman weren’t you the horn player on “There’s a moose loose about this hoose”?
Who was Donald, and why does he still bring a tear to your eye?