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Land music has a fleck of a reputation for being sorry — so, unsurprisingly, there are a lot of country songs that tin actually make people weep.

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Examples (In Alphabetical Order by Artist)

• Trace Adkins has several:
• Alabama'south "In Pictures", where a young man looks at pictures of his daughter that divorce keeps him from seeing. (The other common interpretation is that he is in prison house.)
• Gary Allan has a few:
  • "Tough Little Boys", which is about a homo who watched his piffling daughter grow upwardly and go married. It can exist hard for a male parent to refrain from shedding not-so-Manly Tears at these lines:

  "I know one mean solar day
  I'll give you away
  Merely I'k gonna stand there and grin.
  But when I get home
  and I'm all alone
  Well, I'll sit in your room for a while."

  • His cover of Vertical Horizon's "Best I Ever Had" does this, because the context: his wife committed suicide.
  • "Life Ain't Always Beautiful" tin can be considered one of these too. Not only can it relate to his wife'south suicide it can also exist related to the singers own life every bit well every bit life in full general equally well. Especially when the refrain is both and then distressing but so encouraging:

  "But the struggles brand y'all stronger
  And the changes brand yous wise
  And happiness has its own way of taking its sugariness time..."

• Jason Aldean's "Laughed Until Nosotros Cried" is wonderfully sincere and heartwarming. Especially in the third poesy, when he remembers how long he and his married woman tried to take a babe: "We tried so long, we most gave up promise / And I retrieve you coming in and telling me the news". The second poesy about his grandpa is pretty moving too.
• Rex Allen: The onetime silverish-screen cowboy had his tearjerker with the 1962 hit "Don't Go Almost the Indians," a vocal where a center-aged man implores his son (through whom the song'south perspective is sung) to stay abroad from the Native American reservation, but for years refuses to explain why. Then the son, now in his late teens, has fallen in dearest with a stunningly cute teenaged daughter, nearly a year older than him, called Nova Lee. The son wants to marry her, and finally the father's years of hem-hawing around the truth catches up with him, and he must explicate why, setting upwards the tearjerking heartbreak: years earlier, when the boy was only a baby, he was kidnapped from the reservation in retaliation for a rogue tribesman killing his own petty boy ... and he feared the twenty-four hour period he would run across Nova Lee ... because he knew the son and Nova Lee were biologically brother and sister.
• John Anderson, "I Wish I Could Take Been In that location". A father laments having never been there to witness milestones in his kids' life due to working then much. In the terminal verse, it's turned effectually — the children say the same come their parents' anniversary.
• Sherrié Austin'south "Streets of Heaven" is sung from the perspective of a female parent sitting by her girl'due south side in ICU, bargaining with God for her life. The transition from "God, you tin't take her, she'south my petty girl!" to "God, if she dies tonight, please have care of her in sky for me" tin gets ane every time.
• Steve Azar has a couple:
  • In the music video for "I Don't Have to exist Me ('Til Monday)", an eccentric-looking man has a magical door that sends people to their ideal weekend. The scenarios range from a nun in boxing equipment to your typical biker stereotype in a iii-piece conform to a businessman in drag. The true Tear Jerker is when a homeless adult female goes through the portal, and goose egg really appears dissimilar... except she'south clutching a new, red hat to herself, an expression of pure, absolute joy and appreciation on her face up. After seeing all sorts of rather big changes, seeing this apprehensive one, mayhap for the person nearly appreciative of the gift, is a true tear jerker.
  • "Waitin' on Joe". A first, you think it'south just most a guy with a deadbeat friend who's constantly holding him back. The homo laments that if he could just leave Joe backside, he could get on with his life. And then you notice out that Joe really did endeavour to be on time for their new job by racing the train, only to have the train win. And then you lot find out that Joe's non his friend, merely his brother. Yep.

  I didn't even tell my brother good-bye. I wish somehow, he could transport me a sign.

• The David Brawl vocal "Riding with Individual Malone" can get one in the last bits, Narmy or not. Although, the amazing thing about that vocal is that it absolutely should be Narmy — but the singer's quiet earnestness makes y'all believe every single word.
• The Band Perry has a few:
  • Even if you strongly dislike country music, the song "If I Die Young" tin reduce you to tears particularly if you know someone who died in their teens. The lyrics are simple and poignant: ''The sharp knife of a short life, well, I've had just plenty time...funny when you lot're expressionless how people start listening."
    • ''Lord make me a rainbow, I'll smooth downwardly on my mother. She'll know I'k safe with you when she stands under my colors. Life ain't e'er what you call up it oughta be, no - ain't even grey but she buries her baby..."
    • "I've never known the loving of a homo - just it sure felt nice when he was holding my hand."
    • Depending on whether you lot're a fan of Anne of Dark-green Gables, the references in the lyrics and the video can amplify the song's tear-jerking effects.
• Big & Rich has a couple:
  • Those who have despised this ring for their goofy country-stone novelty songs such as "Salve a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)" should, at least, give "Holy H2o" a take chances. Information technology'll hitting you even harder in one case you lot realize it was written about Big Kenny's sis, a victim of domestic abuse — or, worse, she may have been raped.
  • "8th of Nov". The Vietnam war told from the perspective of seeing your friends dice effectually you. The song's intro says it perfectly:

  "On Nov 8th, 1965, the 173rd Airborne Brigade on Operation Hump, War Zone D in Vietnam, were ambushed by over 1200 VC. 48 American soldiers lost their lives that day. Lawrence Joel, a medic, became the first living black man since the Spanish-American to receive the United States Congressional Medal of Honor for saving and then many lives in the midst of boxing that solar day. Our friend Miles Harris — the guy who gave Large Kenny his elevation chapeau — was 1 of the wounded who lived. This vocal is his story. 'Defenseless in activeness of kill or exist killed, greater love hath no homo than to lay down his life for a friend'."

• Suzy Bogguss' "Letting Go". Even though it's a by and large positive message, it goes dorsum to the realization that the girl has grown up and is leaving.
• Lee Brice:
  • "I Bulldoze Your Truck". He says that, to bargain with the hurting of losing a brother in boxing, he drives said brother's truck. Even as early as the start verse, he sounds like he's choking upwards. Fifty-fifty more tear jerking is that the human being the song was based on, the begetter of a deceased soldier, has said that he can't heed to the song all the way through because it hurts too much.
  • "Boy" for anyone who's close to their male parent. Especially the last verse:

  It'due south 3am and I'd do anything to get yous dorsum to sleep
  And that confront volition be the same one in the rear-view
  The day I picket you leave
  But boy, yous're gonna come back home
  You're gonna settle downwards
  But you won't feel the way I'chiliad feelin' now
  Until you accept a boy

• "Brothers" by Dean Brody. The narrator begs to do annihilation to keep his older brother from going off to war, and is told "this is what brothers are for". They interact through letters in the 2nd verse, once more echoing that sentiment. When the brother finally comes back, he's in a wheelchair and apologizes for having to be pushed in one, but the narrator says "this is what brothers are for" nonetheless once more.
• Go heed to Brooks & Dunn'south "Cowgirls Don't Weep." Now effort not to bawl. Nearly likely, yous'll neglect — peculiarly if you've always been involved with horses.
  • It get sadder with the remix with Reba not only singing in the groundwork, simply definitely with her singing the final verse. It is a song about her life later all.
• "Highway 20 Ride" past the Zac Brown Band is a song in which a divorced man thinks about his son. Lines like "And a role of yous might detest me, only son, delight don't mistake me / For a man who didn't intendance at all" can be especially triggering.
• Luke Bryan, "Drink a Beer". Especially when you realize that he chose to record it in memory of his brother, whom he lost in a car accident. It's uncomplicated still effective in its memory of moving on from the loss of someone.
  • "Build Me a Daddy", a song virtually a boy whose father died asking a toymaker if he tin make a new father for him.
• "Address in the Stars" by Caitlin & Volition, a soaring carol nearly missing someone: "I write these messages to yous but they go lost in the blue / 'Cause there's no address in the stars."
• "Remembering" by Ashley Campbell is a moving tribute to her father, the very famous country vocaliser Glen Campbell, and his struggles with (and eventually expiry from) Alzheimer'south:

  Bone for bone we are the same
  Bones get tired and they tin can't carry all the weight
  We tin talk until you can't even remember my name
  Daddy, don't y'all worry, I'll do the remembering...

• Glen Campbell himself would record a last song shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's illness titled "I'yard Not Gonna Miss You" focusing on how he would be unaware because of the illness of how much his family would have to bargain with the issues of caring for Glen as the illness progressed.
• "Skip A Rope" by Henson Cargill is a rather spooky song, apropos how society affects the next generation, all set to a rather tricky tune. It all culminates together at the end with the terminal verse, stating "Stab 'em in the back, that's the name of the game/ and mommy and daddy are whose to blame/ skip a rope..." before the final chorus, in which the main line is changed from "Now ain't it kinda funny, what the children say?" to "It's really not very funny, what the children say...skip a rope...".
• Jason Michael Carroll has a couple:
• "The Car" by Jeff Carson. The young son pleads his father to buy him a Mustang, but says that what he wants more is a chance to be with Dad more than — and that, if he gets the car, in that location volition always be a part of Dad in it. In the second poesy, the son is now an developed when he receives a carte that the father gave him but before dying. Inside is a set of keys for a new Mustang.
• Effort listening to Rosanne Cash's "Black Cadillac" album and peculiarly the song "I Was Watching You".
• Kenny Chesney has a couple:
  • "Who You'd Be Today". Only natural, since it's a song directed to a deceased loved one — and some of the lyrics suggest they were immature, or fifty-fifty a child.
  • "The Practiced Stuff". The narrator has a big fight with his wife and goes to drink at a bar. He tells the bartender he wants "the good stuff". The bartender doesn't pour him a drink, and tells him "the skillful stuff" can't exist constitute in a bottle. They drink milk and talk most all the not bad moments in their lives, and how that'southward the real "skilful stuff".
  • "Don't Glimmer" is about beingness and so defenseless up in the day-to-twenty-four hours aspects of life that y'all forget to wait upwardly once in a while and of a sudden observe you're in your Golden Years with no lasting memories of your life. It's sung from the perspective of Chesney watching a long-lived gentleman existence interviewed on his longevity, and feeling like he needs to slow down and enjoy his family unit while he has them.
• Tammy Cochran has a couple:
  • "Angels in Waiting" is a tribute to two brothers who died likewise soon. Go out an extra box of Kleenex if you lot e'er see the video. Particularly poignant when y'all realize that it's nigh her 2 brothers, who both died young (14 and 23).
  • "Life Happened" is where the characters all share stories nigh how they had large plans that never came to fruition ("We prepare out to chase our dreams on wings of passion / Just somewhere along the mode, nosotros got distracted"). The second poesy in particular, where a one-time racecar driver is moved to modify his life later nearly dying in a car accident, is particularly effective here.
• Confederate Railroad has a couple:
  • "When You Leave That Style You Tin Never Go Back". The narrator realizes far besides late that he'due south screwed up his life by poor decisions (estranging his dad, leaving a bride-to-exist at the altar and killing a man), and wishing he could go back and practise it all again.
  • Besides from the same ring, "Jesus and Mama" (similar idea, but instead he cleans up because he knows that Jesus and mama always love him) and "Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind" (his father tells him not to put too much pride in cloth things, and as he dies, he's driven away in a Cadillac). It'southward the humility in both that keeps them from going into Narm territory.
• Easton Corbin's "I Can't Love Y'all Back." It's lamentable enough when you take information technology in the context of being simply an ordinary breakup song, simply the context of the music video makes it admittedly gut wrenching: information technology'due south for his girlfriend who died, how much he still loves her, and how much he wishes the love was enough to "honey her dorsum" to life.
• Eric Church's "Lightning" chronicles the internal thoughts of a condemned murderer in the moments leading up to his execution via the electric chair. If you don't at least get goosebumps at the four-minute mark, you're not human.
  • To make matters worse, he explains why he's being executed. He robbed a liquor store to feed his starving daughter, then shot the teenaged clerk without thinking when the clerk went for his gun. At present, both his girl and the clerk's mother are watching him be executed.
• Guy Clark's "Desperados Waiting For A Train"
• Roy Clark's "Yesterday, When I Was Immature." Clark, the host of Hee Haw and the guy who could brand you crack up with laughter i infinitesimal, does a complete 180 in this song near an crumbling man who realizes, as well belatedly, he wasted his entire life, opportunities, everything that'due south good on the many poor, if not outright bad choices he made in his life.
• Patsy Cline: Many of the songs in her itemize. The music is amazing, but listening to the greatest hits compilation reveals a main of singing songs of heartbreak, such as "Crazy" and "She's Got You."
• Compare Cowboy Troy's "If You Don't Wanna Dearest Me" to the residual of his career. It's 1 of the almost sincere and saddest rap song yous'll always hear (about various women who experience unloved in their relationships with family or lovers). The chilling chorus vocals from Sarah Buxton certainly don't injure.
• Billy Ray Cyrus has a couple:
• Gail Davies' "Grandma'due south Vocal" is a touching tribute to her grandmother following said grandmother'due south death. The vocal really opens with her grandmother singing an one-time Irish folk song, and ends with Gail singing the same song by herself.
• Jimmy Dean:
  • "Big Bad John" can bring people to tears, particularly toward the end when the inscription is read. And both the original and bowdlerized versions take the aforementioned touch.
  • "To a Sleeping Beauty," a sentimental song where a young man checks in on his daughter, a beautiful little girl who is about 4 or v years erstwhile, while she'southward sleeping. The tearjerking office kicks in as he envisions her growing up, going through the normal stages of tween and teen years and finally adulthood, and later getting married and i twenty-four hours having a family unit of her ain.
  • "I.O.U.," the classic recitation nearly Female parent's Day.
• "That'southward Just Jessie" by Kevin Denney. The singer is describing how he spaces out— being tardily for piece of work, doodling on his legal pad during meetings, and information technology turns out he can't get a past love named Jessie off of his mind.

  That'southward just my mind, jumpin' fences once again
  But I'll be fine, once I go it rowed back in
  I know sometimes I may human action a piddling crazy
  But that'south just Jessie

• John Denver has a couple:
  • "Have Me Home, Land Roads"... "Driving down the route, I get a feeling that I should take been domicile yesterday..."
  • "I'thousand Leaving On A Jet Plane" is both sad in the context of the song and because of the fact that he died in a airplane crash.
• Diamond Rio'south got a number, including:
  • "Mama, Don't Forget To Pray For Me," where a swain calls his parents for reassurance later some discouragement. During the conversation, he reflects on his growing up with some sadness.
  • "You're Gone" (which is heartbreaking in its simplicity: "And the good news is I'm better for the time we spent together / And the bad news is / You lot're gone")
  • "One More than Solar day" (which has been used in tribute to many tragic deaths, leading to a lot of pop and AC airplay later ix/11).
  • "I Believe" (where the vocaliser speaks to a loved ane who has passed on). The fact that Diamond Rio employs incredible harmonies in these heartbreaking songs only makes it that much worse.
• Dixie Chicks has a couple:
  • "Traveling Soldier," a tale of a young, Army recruit whom is stranger in the town he lives, develops a relationship with a teen-aged girl who works at a waitress at a pocket-sized diner in town. He is eventually sent to Vietnam and killed in action. This is revealed merely toward the terminate of the song, when at a high school football, a listing of local soldiers who had been killed in the state of war during the by twelvemonth was appear ... and she is the just 1 to not only recognize her swain's proper name, just grieve his passing.
  • Information technology gets worse. That song is 1 of their touching ones, "Meridian Of The World" is their song that was then depressing, MTV and VH1 refused to continue playing it after viewer complaints. The video was rarely seen from 2002 to 2008 when someone finally uploaded it to YouTube. Hither information technology is.
• "One Last Time" by Dusty Drake. It starts out sounding like a standard (if nearly operatic) breakup vocal, until you get to the last verse. He never sings that last word, simply letting the vocal end abruptly and really driving home the signal that the human being dies in an airplane crash:

  He said, 'Beloved, I've gotta go'
  She said, "Don't y'all dare hang upwards
  At that place's so many things I need to say
  I beloved you and then much'
  Information technology was almost like she felt him exit
  She cried out, 'Can you still hear me?'
  She cruel downwardly on the kitchen floor
  When the signal died
  Equally the pilot tried to pull out of the swoop
  One... last...

• "Daddy's Easily" by Holly Dunn. If you ever lost a father, this song will tear out your heart.
• "Billy Austin" past Steve Earle. Yep, it is Anvilicious but that doesn't get in any less haunting.
• "Raymond" by Brett Eldredge. At first, it'due south just a song about a nursing dwelling worker who plays along sympathetically with an former adult female'due south Alzheimer'due south-fueled insistence that he'due south her son... but in the second verse, he says that he wishes he were indeed Raymond. The twist is that Raymond died in combat in Vietnam.
• Emerson Bulldoze's "Moments". A immature man plans to commit suicide by jumping off a span, but a homeless man nearby sees it and shares his life story, which convinces the swain to ponder his own life and reconsider his actions. The young man walks abroad, imagining the homeless man sharing his encounter with others.
  • Made Harsher in Retrospect after band member Patrick Bourque really died by suicide mere months after they released this vocal.
• Country Rap artist Colt Ford has 1 in "Back", a reminiscence of his younger years — things like a gas station a friend owned, meeting his first date, etc. Only the longing sound of the song (including a chorus by Jake Owen) and the impressive level of particular should get nearly anyone going.
  • "She Likes to Ride in Trucks" (with Craig Morgan) is also a very touching song nigh a father watching his girl grow upward.
• Ashley Gearing'southward "Can You Hear Me When I Talk to Yous?" is pretty sorry in its own right — its lyrics make it pretty clear that she is missing someone who has died. At first, you'd almost think it's directed to a lost lover, but when she softly says, "I miss you lot, daddy" at the end, the emotions get turned Upwards to Eleven.
• Vince Gill: "Go Rest Loftier on That Mountain."
• Danny Gokey, "I Will Not Say Cheerio". Specially the video. No matter what you thought of the guy on Idol, this song deserved to be a Height xl country hit, and it was.
• Bobby Goldsboro:
  • His 1968 country-pop No. i nail "Dear," a song that spins foreshadowing ("Come across the tree, how big it's grown/Simply friend, it hasn't been as well long/Information technology wasn't big ...") with the typical tale of a marriage of two people in their early-to-mid 20s. The wife dies, and equally her husband mourns, he's left to take solace in watching the tree she planted just a few years earlier, when information technology was "just a twig."
• Vern Gosdin'south "Chiseled in Stone", most a man, feeling alienated and depressed after the latest of many fights with his wife, who is counseled by an elderly widower that the culling is far worse. For anyone who'due south lost a spouse, this song is potentially a sledgehammer.
• "A Dozen Ruddy Roses" by Tammy Graham (besides recorded by Canadian singer Joan Kennedy). Scarlet roses mysteriously testify up at her nuptials, and she doesn't know who they're from until she opens upwards the carte and finds that the annotation was written by her father earlier he died — in anticpation of a wedding that he couldn't attend.
• "Dixie Lullaby" by Pat Green, especially the last verse and chorus where the kid (who is know grown upward) is singing the song to his dad, who has died.

  And I sang him a Dixie Lullaby
  We'll meet once more
  by and past
  Oh my, what a beautiful life
  Just similar a Dixie Lullaby

• Lee Greenwood'due south "God Bless the USA". It tin can be hard to heed to that vocal after getting hold of a version laced with vocal clips of globe leaders (specifically Blair and Bush) responding to the events of 9/11, considering tears will menses like pelting.
• Dave Gunning has several, but "Prince of Pictou" stands out because information technology was based on a truthful story: the illegitimate son of George IV. He died very young, never coming together his begetter and existence treated the way illegitimate children mostly were in the early 19th Century. The verse almost his funeral describes how the important people of the town showed up for that even though they'd ignored him his entire life.

  And although they never said "how-do-you-do"
  They came to say "goodbye"
  But in case the story's true.

• Merle Haggard has a couple:
  • "Mama Tried".
  • "Sing Me Back Home".
• "Daisy" past Halfway to Hazard is similar to Tim McGraw's song, "Don't Have the Girl" — which, halfway through, has much the same twist as the ending to the aforementioned song — but ends on a more than uplifting note.
• "Craig" by Walker Hayes, despite its pop-rap sound, is near a human who helped Walker when he was poor and between record deals past buying him a new car.
• Emmylou Harris has a lot of these:
  • Especially "Bang the Drum Slowly".
  • "Michelangelo".
  • That whole album, Red Dirt Girl, is ane heartbreaking song later on some other. "My Antonia" and the title track, especially the title runway, are of item note. Poor Lillian.
  • "A Dear That Volition Never Grow Onetime" from Brokeback Mount.
  • "Bedrock To Birmingham", especially if you know the story behind it - it was the commencement song she wrote for her (proper) debut album, shortly after hearing that her mentor/friend/Love Interest Gram Parsons had overdosed.

  ...And the hardest role is knowing I'll survive.

• "I Loved Her Showtime" by Heartland is a vocal about parents letting go of their children, and might bring even the most stoic people to tears.
• "Heather's Wall" by Ty Herndon. The narrator is wounded in a bank robbery, knowing he's about to dice, but all he can call up about is his lover. He caps this off with the line "Our love will terminal forever, like that 8 by 10 hanging on Heather's wall".
• "Love Lives On" by Mallary Promise. At offset, information technology sounds similar a vocal about a woman recovering from a failed human relationship, simply the 3rd verse reveals that he died instead of breaking up, and their dear lives on in the course of their daughter.
• Alan Jackson has a few:
  • "Where Were You lot (When The Globe Stopped Turning)". Come on, if you're American, you cried when you heard that for the beginning time.
    • The very first time he performed it was live & unplugged, simply him and his guitar, at an awards show around a calendar month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Brad Paisley stated in his introduction that Jackson had written it well-nigh a week after that fateful day. You could hear a pin drop throughout the entire vocal...and then the audition went nuts at the end.
  • "Monday Morn Church". The narrator's organized religion is shaken to the signal where he can't stand the sight of a Bible sitting on the nightstand. You think information technology's about a breakup until the finish, where it'south revealed his married woman actually died. She was a woman of faith, and praying to God only reminds him of her memory.
  • "Sissy's Song", which he wrote about a housekeeper that died suddenly, packs quite the emotional dial besides.
  • His cover of George Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and the Grand Ole Opry tribute to the late country legend. Not fifty-fifty i verse in and every one was crying.
• Country music pair Joey and Rory'due south vocal If Not For You lot is a heartwarming vocal virtually how much a couple loves i some other, but it becomes a tear jerker now that Joey died of cancer on March 4, 2016.
• Jamey Johnson:
  • In "The Dollar", a little boy asks his mother where his begetter goes every day. His mother tells him that his father has a job and they pay him for his time. He responds past scraping up a dollar and asking if it's plenty to "spend some time with me".
  • "In Color" tells of a immature boy looking through an old blackness-and-white photo album with his elderly grandfather. The photographs highlight the major events of his grandfather'due south life, including living through the Great Depression, fighting in World War II, and getting married. As the young male child stares in wonder at these photographs, his grandfather simply tells him "You should take seen it in color."
• George Jones: "The Possum" was, throughout his career, considered the master of the heartbreak song. Examples abound, including:
  • "The Grand Tour," a song about a man struggling with his imminent divorce from a wife who only walked out on him, "taking aught but our baby and my heart."
  • The original "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
• Y'all wouldn't look Toby Keith to plough up on this listing, but...
  • He nailed information technology with "Cryin' for Me (Wayman's Song)", a tribute to basketball player/jazz bassist Wayman Tisdale, a close friend of Keith's.
  • "Who'due south That Man", a song about a divorced father watching his ex-wife and their kids motion on with their lives while he'due south stuck in the past.
  • His vocal "My Listing" sounds like simply a call to appreciate your life...then you watch the music video and realize what it's truly aimed at.
• It might be hard to make it through "The Call" by Matt Kennon without crying, the starting time time y'all hear it. One person attempts suicide and some other ballgame, but both are stopped past a moving phone telephone call.
• "I Wanna Exist In The Cavalry" by Corb Lund starts off the album Horse Soldier!, which focuses on, well, the cavalry. Information technology'southward actually loftier and upbeat..... until you achieve the reprise at the end of the anthology.
• Lady Antebellum has a couple:
  • "Hi World" by has some actually tearjerking moments. Especially the last verse. It truly makes you want to appreciate life more than. Information technology sounds very much like a Christian vocal, yes, but still, information technology lifts the soul.
  • For some reason, "Need Yous At present" brings tears to the eyes. Peradventure something about the song's bulletin about wishing for someone you are separated from, combined with the downright desperate tones of the singers' voices, only it is a very good, just melancholy, listen.
• Blaine Larsen'southward song "How Do You Get That Lonely" is already sorry plenty, seeing equally information technology'south about a teenage suicide but the music video only makes it so much worse . The most heartbreaking part might be when Larsen sings the line "Did his mom and daddy forget to say, 'I dear you, son'?" and you see the women who is apparently the male child's mother oral fissure the words "I dear y'all, son" along with Larsen.
• Miranda Lambert has a couple:
  • "The Business firm That Built Me"?

  "You leave home
  Yous move on
  And you do the all-time you lot can
  I got lost in this old globe and forgot
  Who I am..."

  • "Over You lot", near someone who'due south died. Especially when you realize that she wrote it with her husband, Blake Shelton, who drew inspiration from losing his brother in a automobile accident.
• "If I Don't Get in Dorsum" by Tracy Lawrence. A soldier asks all his drinking buddies to do all sorts of things in his honor if he doesn't make it back (have a beer for him, drive his sometime Camaro, etc.) Instead of explicitly stating that the soldier dies, it jumps from "If the good Lord calls me home / I'd like to think my friends volition think about me when I'1000 gone" straight to "Well, Miller Light own't my brand / But I drink i every now and and so in his laurels..."
• "Paint Me a Birmingham," released concurrently by Tracy Lawrence and Ken Mellons. Information technology describes a man who happens upon a painter on a beach, and of anything he could ask the artist to paint, he asks for a motion picture of the house he planned to share with his lover with her sitting on a swing in the front end yard hugging him so "she'll be his again." The Ken Mellons version is softer and sounds as though he is trying not to cry throughout.
• Lonestar'southward "I'm Already There" was a sweet, pitiful vocal most a performer on the road missing his family. Then radio stations began mixing information technology with messages from family members to servicemen and women overseas, taking the tearjerking to eleven.
• Patty Loveless has a couple:
  • "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye": verse 1, a childhood movement; verse 2, a expiry/divorce; verse 3, the female parent sings the chorus as she's about to die. Dual-Meaning Chorus at its finest.
  • "The Granddad That I Know" (which has besides been recorded by Shawn Military camp and Joe Diffie). The vocalizer contrasts the formality at granddad's funeral with the unproblematic man that he was.

  "And they all say he looks so natural
  Only all I encounter is a common cold dark hole
  I won't commit this twenty-four hours to memory
  That own't the granddad that I know..."

• Kathy Mattea:
  • "Continuing Knee Deep in a River (Dying of Thirst)". The song itself might make you tear up a little equally you think of all the "could take been"s in your life, but the imagery in the video simply helps to drive it abode in a more than tear-jerking fashion.
  • "Where've You Been", a sweet story about two lovers who get from "where have you been all my life?" to her fearing for his life after he comes habitation late one stormy nighttime… to the two of them, at present elderly, in a nursing habitation. She has lost well-nigh of her memory, simply at the very end of the vocal, seeing him triggers her to once again say "where've you lot been?"
• Jennette McCurdy has a couple:
  • Go listen to "Not That Far Abroad" and retrieve virtually when you lot moved away from home. Now endeavour not to sob.
  • Even meliorate. Try listening to "Homeless Heart" after that song. It might be tough trying not to cry waterfalls.
• Martina McBride has enough:
  • Fifty-fifty many stoics discover themselves deeply moved by "Concrete Angel". In improver to feeling heartbreaking sadness over the poor girl who was abused to death at the easily of her own mother, the thought of anyone doing that to their own children can make whatsoever compassionate person'due south blood boil. Perhaps the most gripping part of the music video is that the girl's simply friend is her guardian angel and that her female parent communicable her talking to him is what throws her into the fit of rage that causes her death. The music video shows the funeral of the kid being sung almost and how she goes to a happier place with the other children with similar fates.
    • Turned Up to Eleven when a few country stations under the Froggy brand played this a few days after the death of Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen whose emotional abuse suffered at the hands of her parents drove her to suicide in December 2014, and dedicated it to her memory.
    • Turned up even more when you realize that the immature boy could've been with the little girl because he knew what was going to happen.
  • "In My Daughter'due south Eyes". Enough said.
  • The music video to "Independence Day".
  • "God's Will." Her vocal almost a kind-hearted disabled male child who may or may non alive can bring tears to fifty-fifty a usually stoic person. His female parent was told that they didn't call up he would live when he was born. But every 24-hour interval shows her just how wrong they were.
  • "This One's for the Girls" is a song that can be tear-triggering to women who accept either had body image problems and/or are about to take on another stage of life. Information technology may exist more than of a sentimental song, than truly a sad vocal.
  • Oh god, "A Broken Wing", a song about a woman whose calumniating hubby tells her she will never amount to annihilation, and and then (possibly) commits suicide. "Man, y'all oughta run across her wing..." Although, Discussion of God states that the final verse could also be interpreted as she left him, not that she jumped.
• Jason Meadows's 18 Video Tapes. A man learns he is terminally ill merely every bit he and his wife are expecting a kid. To ensure his son has all the knowledge he needs while growing, the man makes a serial of tapes instructing the boy how to exercise sure things. The terminal tape tells the son to exist there for his ain children, even if he has to do it from across the grave too.
• "Something to Be Proud Of" by Montgomery Gentry. Information technology starts with kids listening to their grandfather tell war stories, and leads into the narrator finding his married woman and having a family, but he has a crummy task and they don't have much. He wonders if he'southward let his father down, and if he'south ashamed of how things turned out. His dad tells him "If all you're actually doing is the all-time you lot can, you did it, man. That's something to exist proud of."
• John Michael Montgomery has a couple:
  • "The Little Girl".
  • The song "Letters From Home" is a tear jerker for anyone that has a family member in the Armed forces, but the concluding poesy is what may be the worst. The narrator'southward father, who hadn't spoken a word to him since his proclamation to join the armed services, finally swallows his pride sends a letter to permit his son know how proud of him he is. It really makes the song'southward narrator weep.
• In Justin Moore'due south "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Abroad", he uses rather bright imagery to describe those who have passed on, and wishes that he could take a one-twenty-four hours trip to Sky just to visit them all over again.
• Craig Morgan has a couple:
  • "Every Friday Afternoon". The narrator is horribly dissever over seeing his son afterwards a divorce, because he really wants to exist in that location simply tin't.
  • "This Ain't Nothin'" can be rather tearjerking. It's near an quondam man who had his house destroyed by a tornado, simply mentions that he's been through much worse in his life (similar the decease of his married woman).
  • "The Male parent, My Son, and the Holy Ghost" was written subsequently his teenaged son died in an accident, and is a song that deals with his memory.
• Lorrie Morgan'due south "Dear Me", particularly when you consider the vocal was released just after the death of her hubby Keith Whitley.
• Willie Nelson has a couple:
  • "A Couple More Years".
  • Him performing "America the Beautiful" at the September 11 telethon, with everybody slowly joining in — including Muhammad Ali, who stood for virtually of it, despite his condition. And they sang all the verses.
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band has a couple:
  • The version of "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" on their second album of the same title is some other 1. The vocal is pitiful plenty on its own (a child's experience of his mother's funeral and the family's sorrow), but this version is sung by a who'south who of country stars, with the first two verses being sung by Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff, both of whom have passed away...that just compounds the sadness.
  • "Dance, Footling Jean", in which a cynical musician learns that the wedding political party he'southward playing for is virtually a footling girl's parents finally getting together. The moment information technology really hits you is when the vocalist'south phonation changes on the line "She was a happy little girl!"
• Jamie O'Neal'south "Somebody'south Hero"
  • The song is tearjerking in a sentimental way - it's an age progression song that describes a mother every bit being a hero first to her infant daughter, then giving the daughter abroad to be married, and finally her daughter being her hero taking care of her in a nursing dwelling house. The fashion it is laid out, showtime listing extraordinary things the mother hasn't done (ranging from rescuing someone from a burning building, to walking on the moon, to singing to a sold out show) and so declaring that she's a hero anyway, is what makes it such a tearjerker.
  • A quick line in the last poetry is tearjerking in a more traditional way. Said line declares that the mother, now an onetime woman, is envied by the residual of the facility where she lives. Why? Because her daughter visits her each and every afternoon. Fridge Horror suggests she's envied because most of them don't get that pleasure.
• The Oak Ridge Boys gave us "I'll Be True to You." She loved him and waited for him while he lived his life and sowed his wild oats. Eventually he did come to dear her in render... but non until afterward she drank herself to death pining for him.
• Brad Paisley'southward "He Didn't Have To Be" is a song almost a guy whose childhood involved a single mom going out on dates (which he compares to job interviews) hoping to come across someone who would be the dad to her kid. Much like "I Don't Call Him Daddy" below, anyone who's been on any stop of the situation (the kid, the mom and the new dad) can definitely place.
• Dolly Parton has a few:
  • "Coat of Many Colors" is but so childlike and pitiful you can't help just weep some.
  • The original "I Will E'er Love Yous" is heartbreaking, because the vulnerable, quiet mode she sings it evokes the image of someone who's falling apart, simply trying her damnedest to exist gracious and leave with a smiling.
  • "Hard Candy Christmas" could count as well.
  • "Down from Dover" ends with a babe existence born only the singer mentions, "Something's wrong; it's also still. I hear no crying", implying a Tragic Stillbirth.
• Johnny Paycheck's "Old Violin". A dejected man compares himself to "an old violin / Soon to be put abroad and never played again". The song concludes with "And simply like that information technology hit me / That old violin and I, we're merely alike / Nosotros'd give our all to music / And presently we'll requite our lives". Even more so with Daryle Singletary's embrace version from 2002; Paycheck recited the last line from his hospital bed only months before his expiry, and Singletary died in 2018.
• Kellie Pickler has a couple:
  • "I Wonder" can suspension the heart of anyone who has experienced Parental Abandonment, especially (if one has the same colour eyes as the parent who left) with the lines "'Cause I look in the mirror/And all I meet/Are your brown optics lookin' back at me".
    • She herself burst out crying, as she sang that vocal at the CMA's.
  • "My Affections" volition brand you cry if y'all've merely lost a grandmother.
• "Feed Jake" by Pirates of the Mississippi.

  Wino passed out on the sidewalk
  Doesn't anybody care?
  Some say, "He'south worthless, just let him be"
  I, for one, would have to disagree
  And and then would their mamas.

  • As well notable for being a land song containing a Gay Aesop released in 1990.
• John Prine's "Sam Stone" is about a Vanquish-Shocked Veteran slowly killing himself with heroin. Which would exist bad enough if it didn't take a bouncy, singalongable chorus shifting the story to his kids' POV and hinting that he's but passing his inability to bargain with life on to them.

  At that place'southward a pigsty in Daddy's arm where all the money goes
  Jesus Christ died for nothin', I suppose
  Li'50 pitchers have big ears
  Don't stop to count the years
  Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios...

• "Me and Emily" by Rachel Proctor. Information technology gets you once the little daughter starts asking if she has a daddy, then really drives home the point with "information technology would kill me if he e'er raised his hand to her." Then you can hear the relief in her voice when she gets to the end: "it's a brand new 24-hour interval / information technology'due south a second chance / Yesterday is only a retentivity / For me and Emily."
• "Love, Me" by Collin Raye can brand one tear up the terminal time through the chorus. Even though that chorus has already been heard once, the last verse changes the meaning of it completely. Very well done. (The credit should go to Skip Ewing, who wrote the song.)
  • Raye was known for his tearjerking ballads, which alternatively celebrated the finding of true love, and mourned the loss of it. The latter are peculiarly good at this.
• Austin Roberts' "Rocky," a 1975 tale nigh a young couple in their early on 20s that has the tearjerker in full result during the final poesy. There, the immature, cute (and we do mean beautiful) woman learns she has a concluding illness; in the final poetry, it is revealed she has died ("Now it's back to two again, our infant girl and I/Sometimes she looks similar her own sugariness mother, sometimes information technology makes me weep"), and that he oftentimes has long periods of despair. Successfully covered that same year for the country market place by singer-songwriter Dickey Lee.
• "She Misses Him" by Tim Rushlow, erstwhile pb singer for the group Little Texas, is another song about Alzheimer'due south. It'southward about a woman and her hubby as he goes through Alzheimer'south and how she deals with him forgetting her and their life together.
• "You Can Permit Go" by Crystal Shawanda is an Age-Progression Song that starts out beingness sentimental... and and then gets progressively more than heart-wrenching. The first verse is nearly the singer learning to ride a wheel; the 2d verse is virtually the vocalist getting married; the tertiary poetry is almost the vocalist's begetter wasting away due to cancer. Definitely have a box of tissues handy.
• Blake Shelton has a couple:
  • In "The Baby", the singer's female parent is on her decease bed, and her dying wish is to see her son one last time. He doesn't make information technology.
  • "When Somebody Knows You That Well". He recalls sneaking a couple beers, getting sick and then getting yelled out by dad… then bottling upwards all his emotions towards said dad, who is now expressionless, until his wife encourages him to let it all out. Throughout, he realizes that he tin't hibernate his emotions from those who know him and then well.
• Sons of the Desert's "Leaving October", a great song about a lover who has died. The narrator is supported by his girl, who says her third grade teacher looks like the lost love.
• The Statler Brothers had quite a number of these in their day. Just to proper noun a few:
  • "Silverish Medals and Sweet Memories" is sung from the perspective of a grown son whose mother was widowed during World State of war I. The first verse reveals that she didn't know she was pregnant with him when his father left for state of war "and she never heard from him again, and he never heard of me." The second verse goes on to say that she was so in love she never remarried.
  • "More Than a Proper noun on a Wall" has the singer witnessing a mother at a more contemporary state of war memorial, using "pen and paper as to trace her memories" and praying, telling God how much she missed her boy, remembering "a little boy playing state of war since he was three," how much he missed the family while he was away (particularly on Christmas Eve), and asking, "Lord, could you tell him he's more than a name on a wall."
  • The verses of "Some I Wrote" have a songwriter telling his wife what to take put on his tombstone when his time comes, while the chorus lists the people he wrote songs for. The tune is surprisingly upbeat for the bulletin, which ends with "merely the most I wrote for yous."
• Pick upwardly a Doug Stone album and y'all'll find plenty of tear jerkers. He even launched his career with one: "I'd Be Ameliorate Off (In a Pine Box)", a vocal where he's and then downtrodden by a broken heart that he wishes he were dead.
• George Strait's "You'll Be In that location", near a person who has died, and the want to exist in Heaven with them. The choir and swelling strings on the chorus really assist:

  I'll see you on the other side if I make information technology
  It might be a long hard ride, but I'm gonna take information technology
  Sometimes information technology seems that I don't have a prayer
  I let the weather condition have me anywhere
  Only I know that I wanna go where the streets are gold
  'Cause you'll exist there

• Doug Supernaw'southward "I Don't Telephone call Him Daddy" is a song in which a divorced man thinks about his son and the new father in his life. Anyone who'south been on whatever end of the situation (child raised by mom and stepfather, divorced father, the stepfather) can surely identify.
• Chalee Tennison'due south "Become Back" is a Slice of Life song. In the commencement verse, a trucker and diner worker spend fourth dimension chatting. He decides to drive abroad, but something tells him to "go dorsum" to her. They eventually bail and marry. In poetry 2, he gets a phone call to "get back" home because his married woman'due south just given birth. On the way back, he crashes and "slip[s] into the light", where the angels tell him "now is not your fourth dimension / Go back, you've got somebody waiting…"
• Trent Tomlinson'due south "I Wing in the Burn down" is about a drunk of a father, in whom both the vocalist and his mother still accept hope, knowing that he's a good person underneath it all. He pleads God to continue believing in his male parent, and prays that said father will be skilful enough to get in into Sky.
• Randy Travis has a few of these.
  • Especially axiomatic in Randy's songs about divorce or couples on the brink of divorce. Randy evokes a sense of realism in songs such every bit "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Habitation" (although the latter steers towards a happy ending).
  • "Good Intentions" will break your heart. It's most a man'southward promise to his mother to exist practiced, simply get arrested. He then finds out his mother died while he was in prison and that he isn't allowed to see his son.

  But mama, my intentions were the best

  • "Promises" is a soft ballad nearly an adulterer making empty promises to his wife. It hits hard when he realizes the consequences in store for him.
  • "White Christmas Makes Me Blue" is a heartstring-tugging "missing you lot at Christmas" song. On top of the narrator trying to continue upward with Christmas traditions, the person is trying to avert hearing "White Christmas" because of all the past holidays they spent together. The 2nd verse even implies that the beloved interest is dead.
  • "Three Wooden Crosses". A "farmer and a teacher, hooker and a preacher" are riding a coach. The preacher is trying to convince the hooker to repent earlier the bus crashes. She's the simply survivor amidst the four, and the second poetry reveals what the other two have left backside for their family. Then comes The Reveal that the hooker cleaned herself up and became the mother of the preacher who told the story to the narrator.
• Travis Tritt'southward "Tell Me I Was Dreaming". Yous might make it through the song if it'south on the radio — merely, if you lot're watching the video, tears will flow. (While the vocal is about a breakup, in the video information technology's a decease.)
• "That'southward My Task" by Conway Twitty can bring anyone who'southward always lost a father to tears.
• Pick a song by Townes Van Zandt. Any vocal.
  • Just mayhap peculiarly "Tecumseh Valley".
  • The vocal "Nothin'" is another that often moves even extreme stoics to tears. It'due south made all the more poignant if you lot know that Townes suffered from heroin addiction for years.

  Hey Momma, when you exit
  Don't leave a thing backside
  I don't want nothin'
  Can't use nothin'

  • "A Song For" on his last anthology is a suicide annotation set to music. Townes' ain (failed) suicide note, to be precise. If the title looks weird, recall how songwriters are credited on tape sleeves - "A Vocal For (Townes Van Zandt)"

  My sky'due south getting far, the ground'due south gettin' close
  My cocky goin crazy the way that information technology does
  I'll lie on my pillow and sleep if I must
  Too late to wish I'd been stronger
  Too late to wish I'd been stronger

• Keith Urban'south "Tonight I Wanna Cry," a ballad that is only vocalisation and pianoforte, describes a homo at home lonely afterwards a wife or lover has left him and trying to merely let his emotion out ("let it fall like rain from my eyes").
• Phil Vassar, "Don't Miss Your Life". The important message of not passing upwardly those family opportunities that come up only once tin can really hit home with anyone.
• "Cherokee Highway" by Western Flyer is a Prejudice Aesop that ends on an extremely nighttime note. 2 boys, Kevin (who is white) and Willy (who is black) spotter their town get torn apart by racial violence. Willy's father is killed past the Ku Klux Klan, and Kevin discovers that his own father is one of the Klansmen. This leads to Kevin'south house getting burned down in revenge with him still inside; Willy rushes in to try and save Kevin, but both of them cease up dying. The song ends with the white father realizing that he can't even tell the two boys' bodies apart.
• Bryan White'south "Tree of Hearts" chronicles a tree that a boyfriend and girlfriend (who subsequently become married man and wife) carve a heart into for each twelvemonth together. It follows sweetness little vignettes in their life: showtime, the immature boy and girl playing together, then their marriage under said tree in their 20s, and so their children playing under the same tree, and in the final verse, both of them existence cached under the tree.
• Chuck Wicks has a couple:
  • "Man of the Business firm" is another song well-nigh a loved 1 in the military. Information technology'due south near a ten-year-erstwhile boy taking on the burden of being the titular man because his male parent's in the armed services. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?5=gxYBEfqIKkA). The worst function is when the little boy, Bobby, overhears a news written report near the war, so runs up to his room before he breaks down in tears — because he doesn't want his mother to meet him cry.
  • Also "Stealing Cinderella", in which a male parent comes to realize that the little girl his daughter had been in his optics is now a woman, one time the narrator asks for the girl's hand in marriage.
• "Former Coyote Town" past Don Williams. If the poignant opening notes on the piano don't become you, the wistfully nostalgic lyrics most the slow death of the singer's hometown will.
• If Mark Wills' "Don't Laugh at Me" doesn't have yous crying in the first part, the 2nd volition get you with "I lost my wife and little boy/ someone crossed that yellow line/ the 24-hour interval we laid 'em in the footing/ is the day I lost my mind/ correct now I'm down to holding/ this little paper-thin sign".
• Darryl Worley'due south "I Miss My Friend" is pretty straightforward, a song to a lost lover. Of form, the big tearjerker comes in the music video, where it's revealed that the vocalist is the one who's deceased, and reaches out to his loved one as she passes straight through him.
• "He Would Be Sixteen" by Michelle Wright (not the aforementioned person every bit Chely Wright). She wonders all about the son she had to put up for adoption, and laments having not known him. Powerful stuff.
• Dwight Yoakam is the champion at this. Only heed to "Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Reddish Dresses)" and endeavour not to lose it. If this song doesn't brand yous want to hang yourself, nothing will.
• "Flowers" by Billy Yates starts out somewhat generically, but you can hear the singer's pain as he sings to his ex-married woman/girlfriend whom he had killed by driving drunkard.

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Not-song examples

• September 8, 2017 saw the dissever deaths of ii popular American country music artists: Don Williams and Montgomery Gentry's Troy Gentry. The former died at the age of 78 after an illness, the latter died at 50 in a helicopter crash just hours before he and partner Eddie Montgomery were to begin a concert. Many country music artists were deeply upset by their losses.
• The year 2020 was hard for the world, and in particular for fans of country music. The COVID pandemic took Joe Diffie, John Prine, Charley Pride, and M. T. Oslin, while Kenny Rogers, Charlie Daniels, January Howard, Mac Davis, Doug Supernaw, Hal Ketchum and Harold Reid of the Statler Brothers passed abroad from other causes.

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