X-Mas songs that make you misty-eyed!

[LincolnMcGrath]

Ziggy and BuhBuh Bing: Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

[MissMillie]

1. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

as sung by Judy Garland, of course.

[skippysmom]

3. you took the words out of my mouth...

...when she sings that in Meet me in St Louis it's so sad...and I like the lyric "until then we'll have to muddle through somehow" instead of "hang a shining star upon the highest bough"

[bif]

4. Or by Mel!

Torme.

[VOX]

28. Or Nat King Cole!

:toast:

[SiobhanClancy]

11. That one nearly makes me cry every time I hear it..

as well as "I'll Be Home For Christmas". I believe both of these came out during WWII and speak to the many soldiers,etc who were far away from their families during the war years. Now,they speak to anybody who is separated,either by time or distance,from those they love. For many people,the "home" they'd like to go to is no more,and is just a word for a memory.
That's my shot at spreading joy for the day.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

15. Every year I watch that movie...

and every year she has me crying like a baby!

[Racenut20]

2. "Oh Holy Night"

[Red State Rebel]

14. I'll second that!

[UrbScotty]

34. One of my grandma's favorites.

They sang it at her funeral in 2001 - February of 2001, that is!

[Maddy McCall]

5. I'll be Home for Christmas

Bing Crosby

[bleedingheart]

32. Perry Como does a great rendition also!

makes you cry...

http://memory.loc.gov/cocoon/patriotism/loc.natlib.ihas.200000010/

[girl gone mad]

6. Fairytale of New York

the Pogues.

[LincolnMcGrath]

7. That ain`t your father`s x-mas song! lol

Great pick, btw and welcome to DU!

[chimpymustgo]

8. Please Come Home for Christmas - Luther Vandross

If you don't have his Christmas album, run don't walk.

It's been out a few years, but it's already a classic, and always sells out early (I like to give it as a Christmas present).

It's also got some fun, funky songs and an absolutely amazing version of "O Come All Ye Faithful".

[Maeve]

9. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

And in despair I bow'd my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men."

And still I hope....

[sybylla]

10. Pretty Paper

by Willie Nelson and Carol of the Bells by Kenny Rogers. It's the only time I ever listen to Country artists.

The rest of my holiday music is instrumental: brass, classical, and some on instruments from the middle ages. I'm looking forward to a new holiday cd I bought on sale after xmas last year by Nat King Cole. I'll probably break it open after Thanksgiving.

[Aristus]

12. Da-who Dorays, Fa-who Forays.

Welcome Christmas bring your cheer.
Na-who Norays, Da-who Dorays
Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day

Welcome, welcome Fa-who Rah-mus
Welcome, welcome Da-who Da-mus
Christmas Day is in our grasp
So long as we have hands to clasp

Da-who Dorays, Fa-who Forays
Welcome Christmas, come this way
Na-who Norays, Da-who Dorays
Welcome Christmas, Christmas Day

Welcome, welcome Fa-who Rah-mus
Welcome, welcome, Na-who Nah-mus
Christmas Day will always be
Just as long as we have we

Welcome Christmas bring your cheer
Cheer to all Whos far and near
Welcome Christmas, while we stand
Heart to heart and hand in hand

Okay, I'm misting up now.

[VelmaD]

17. Oh honey...

I like you more and more every single day. :-) I love "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". That song makes me mist up too. :hug:

Darth Velma
aka Cindy Lou Who

[Aristus]

18. How about that moment when the Grinch's heart grows three sizes

and his eyes glow? That's a real sob moment. That's the look of someone who, for the first time in his life, is happy. God, it just gets me.

My wife: "OOOO, is baby cwying!"

Me: "SHUT UP!" *sniff*

[VelmaD]

20. What a meanie.

Just kidding. :-)

Don't feel bad about crying. My little brother still cries when the Ewok gets killed in Return of the Jedi and his buddy tries to pick him up and get him moving again and he realizes he's gone. :-(

Nothing wrong with being a sensitive guy. :hug:

[kyrasdad]

13. Silent Night

Was my Grandpa's favorite Christmas song... on Christmas Eve, the one night a year I go to church with my folks, they have a candlelight service... when we sing Silent Night, every year since he's been gone I puddle up...

[THUNDER HANDS]

16. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

Gets me right *here* every time.

<sniff>

:D

[Tripper11]

19. Happy X-Mas, War Is Over....

John Lennon...have always been a huge Lennon fan, sure wish he was here now to speak out they way he did.

[sleepyhead]

37. Agreed.

[eileen_d]

21. Anything from "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

Vince Guaraldi Trio

"Christmastime is here, Happiness and cheer..."

[Aristus]

22. Remember the kids all singing after sprucing up Charlie Brown's

Christmas tree?

[eileen_d]

24. Yeah.

*SIGH*

[Aristus]

44. "Loo-loo-loo, loo-loo-loo-loo-loo,

*breath*

Loo-loo-loo, loo-loo-loo-loo!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, CHARLIE BROWN!"

[Shakespeare]

36. When Linus reads to them....

at the play rehearsal. Gets me every time.

[ironflange]

23. The Cat's Carol

This song would make Saddam, Osama, and Cheney wrap up in a group hug and cry like babies. Sung by Meryn Cadell on a Canadian
album entitled simply Christmas Songs. It's an absolutely wonderful album, not sure if it's available in the US, but you can get it here:

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/item.asp?N=36&R=1747332&act=A03&Item=6700301632&Section=music&Catalog=Music&Lang=en&mscssid=U281N0DP7NAU9GP4J53F3899PBSMF3N4&WSID=121130BB81B580B74A79A22D697245F7B6FE3118

edit: Sorry for screwing up the page display. :( That's one loooong URL.

[grannylib]

25. They all choke me up , but the Chrissie Hynde/Pretenders one...

"She's gone, 2000 miles, it's very far..." gets me really bad...
Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack is great; also love George Winston's "December" album.

[Sequoia]

26. Yes indeed.

However, I don't much care for Bing anymore. He beat, and I mean BEAT, his boys till they bled. Two of them committed suicide. He wouldn't talk to his second wife for a whole year because she wanted her kids (new batch w/ Bing)to go to private school. But I do like "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day". That sorta gets me with the "hatred strong, mocks the song..." line. How true.

[geniph]

27. 2,000 Miles

Pretenders

[Padraig18]

29. "Greensleeves" n/t

[MediumBrownDog]

30. Merry Christmas, Alabama ("Never Far From Home")

by Jimmy Buffett from his Christmas Island album. It's beautiful and always gets me teared up.

[Bake]

31. Isn't it a little EARLY for this thread???

Sheesh! It's not even Thanksgiving yet!

Bake

By the way, "I'll Be Home for Christmas" gets me every time!

[UrbScotty]

33. "Auld Lang Syne" (maybe not a Christmas song, but still)

Several New Year's Eves ago, I was watching the ball drop. I was only 8 at the time, but my parents let me stay up to see the ball drop. For some reason, I started crying. I don't know why; maybe it was because the old year had gone, and had been replaced by the new year.

I don't know why, but I kinda get choked up whenever I hear "Auld Lang Syne."

[tjdee]

35. I am a poor boy too, I have no gift to bring that's fit to give a king....

Yeah, there are those obnoxious pa-rum-pum-pum-pums in the middle there, LOL....

But the fact that he is a poor boy too! And he has no gift except his drum playing! And little baby Jesus smiles! Even if you think you have nothing to give you do!
God, I'm a cheeseball.

Also, O Holy Night, the Whos in Whoville...and I know it's not a song, but the whole baby Jesus thing is kind of misty-riffic. Even if you don't believe in that sort of thing religiously, just the thought of this little important baby being born in a stable somewhere--makes you think about the babies being born right now, just off somewhere and no one makes a big deal about it...you never know who's being born somewhere.

Good Goodness, someone stop me! :eyes: LOL!

[ikojo]

45. I am Jewish and the Little Drummer Boy is not only my

favorite Christmas song but my favorite Christmas special. While all the others were bringing jewels and other expensive gifts the drummer boy gave of himself and from within.

I cry the first time I hear that song every year. Too bad it really isn't played that often...not like the Santa songs.

Oy!

[absyntheNsugar]

38. John Lennon's "So this is Christmas"

always brings a tear to my eye...

[LincolnMcGrath]

41. Can`t beleive it went two days before someone

nominated that one.

[Socialist Christian]

39. The Holly n the ivy reminds me of childhood <nt>

[Lady Freedom]

40. Christmas Time by Bryan Adams

[YellowRubberDuckie]

42. I remember my grandma sitting and crying when I'll be home for Xmas...

...came on tv or radio. She was an Oklahoma import from Iowa, and all her siblings still live there. She just missed them. And every time I hear it now, it makes me think of her. I really miss her this time of year.
Duckie

[jus_the_facts]

43. Please Come Home For Christmas....

....this song takes me back to when I was young...doesn't matter by who it's sung...it's my all time favorite Christmas song....it will always remind me of my Dad my whole life long. :cry: :loveya:



Bells will be ringing the sad, sad news
Oh what a Christmas to have the blues
My baby's gone (my baby's gone) I have no friends
To wish me greetings once again
Choirs will be singing Silent Night
Christmas carols by candlelight
Please come home for Christmas (please come home)
Please come home for Christmas (please come home)

If not for Christmas by New Year's night
Friends and relations send salutations
Just as sure as the stars shine above (yes they do)
This is Christmas, Christmas my dear
The time of year to be with the one that you love
So won't you tell me, you'll never more roam
Christmas and New Year (Christmas and New Year's)
Will find you at home
There'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain
I'll be happy (happy) Christmas once again