Posted on 09/16/2011 7:47:20 AM PDT by Scythian
Okay, I'll start off, this one really gets to me, here's a classic video in HD of Dan Hill singing "Sometimes when we touch" with the classic touch of being introduced by Wolf Man Jack, but then, it's hard to tell who is the real wolf man in this video. However, this is a great song nonetheless, go ahead and cry you big burly freepers, it's okay, it's been almost three years of Obama, you can always blame it on that if somebody see's you.
Sometimes When We Touch (Live Midnight Special)
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Not a man, either, but I’ve heard guys say this one affects them as deeply as it does me - Guy Clark - The Randall Knife
Born Free - Andy Williams
I used to love that tune, but that was before I knew its history. Julia Ward Howe wasn’t a Christian, she was a Unitarian. And she wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to the tune of “John Brown’s Body” for the Union. The song wasn’t inspired by the Bible, but by her bloodlust for Southern blood on Southern land.
My great-grandfather nearly died as a Union prisoner of war. He probably heard that song sung by his Union guards. Of course he died 40 years before I was born, but my grandmother made sure I knew the stories of his life. Since I am both a Southerner and a Christian, I just can’t sing that song in good conscience.
I saw that song performed live in June of 1984. Gave me shivers (because the concert was at an outdoor venue in the Bay Area, and it was cold).
Randall Knife is one tearjerking song, at least for me. When we were cleaning out my grandfather’s house after he died, I told everyone I only wanted one thing: his knife. I wouldn’t sell it for a million dollars.
Guy Clark should be more famous.
Taps!
Went back home, the home was lonesome
Missed my mother she was gone
All my brothers, sisters crying
What a home so sad and lone
We sang the songs of childhood,
Hymns of faith that made us strong
Ones that Mother Maybelle taught us
And the angles sang along
Can not get to these verses without tearing up. Big tough guy, crying like a little girl.
Amazing Grace is at the top of the play list at my funeral/memorial/wake/celebration. These songs touch something inside like no other can do.
I’ll agree with you on Highway 20 ride. When that song came out, I was living 500 miles from the family after moving for a new job. We were apart for 8 months and I could only afford to drive home about every 3 weeks. I like Zac Brown and had to turn the radio off whenever I heard that song, expecially when I was on the 10 hour drive back form seeing my wife and kids for a weekend.
The Star Spangled Banner sung by any “recording star” before a sports event.
“Cinderella” by Steven Curtis Chapman
“He’s my son” by Mark Schultz
And I grew up in landlocked Colorado.
I'll second "Butterfly Kisses" and add Harry Chapin's "Taxi".
Of course, Judas Priest has some songs that bring a tear to my eye, but for a different reason. :)
Pat Benetar - We Belong
“Arlington” by Trace Adkins.
Agreed, and agreed.
"Not the law books, not the watch. I need the thing he's haunted."
Guy Clark is the poet laureate of Texas music.
Here's a version from 1991 or 1992, from the Texas Connection (hosted by Jerry Jeff Walker).
My wife's favorite Guy Clark song is "Like a Coat from the Cold," written by Guy as a wedding present for his wife, Susanna, because he had no money.
"But the lady beside me is the one I have chosen,
To walk through life with me
Like a Coat from the cold."
Every suggestion here is good.
“Traces” Classics IV
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