Songs about love and loss

[RockyMTblue2]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Zorro]

"Your answer was goodbye, and there was even postage due." Love it!

 

[nwhoopfan]

Good example of lyrical dissonance. The words are sad, but it sounds so upbeat and happy.

 

[Zorro]

 

[rvwsleep]

Based on a real life episode in Fogelberg's life.

 

[Ozimoto]

Glen Campbell.

 

[EdSaid]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Bama fan]

From the Chairman

 

[Bama fan]

The inimitable Mary Travers

 

[nwhoopfan]

I think this came from an album of covers, haven't looked up who the original is by, but Patty does a great job with it.

 

[Bama fan]

Mary Travers redux

 

[Bama fan]

Kathy's Song

 

[Bama fan]

One of the saddest songs ever, and true Americana

 

[Bama fan]

A classic song by a classic songstress. Jo Stafford was magnificent. The song was written by a Canadian war widow.

 

[Hoops66]

This is my favorite folk song. Listen to his guitar all the way through.

 

[rvwsleep]

Based on a real life episode in Fogelberg's life.

For those who are interested, here's the back story:

The story behind “Same Old Lang Syne”

In what’s becoming an annual holiday tradition, we bring you the story behind one of the most beloved, if somewhat sappy New Year’s songs ever written: Originally published in 2007 by P…

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[Bama fan]

The guy is singing about his bandmate's girlfriend. Pretty touchy recording session?

 

[Purduke]

Well I posted Ashoken Farewell with Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife in the prior thread, so I guess I'll have to revert to Judith Durham, one of my three favorite three female vocalists, performing one of the classic love and lost songs.

 

[Bama fan]

This is my favorite folk song. Listen to his guitar all the way through.

Good song, and the guitar is indeed excellent. But I think he may have his history wrong. The Panama Limited was an Illinois Central train that ran the same route as the City of New Orleans but on a different time schedule. The D.C. to New Orleans train is the Crescent or Crescent Limited. It runs through Birmingham, Al.

 

[Hoops66]

And this may be my favorite Irish folk song/singer. Sorry no album cover.

 

[Bama fan]

Well I posted Ashoken Farewell with Sullivan Ballou's letter to his wife in the prior thread, so I guess I'll have to revert to Judith Durham, one of my three favorite three female vocalists, performing one of the classic love and lost songs.

Just beautiful! Thanks for posting. I loved her and The Seekers!

 

[Bama fan]

Here is one from the Stones

 

[Hoops66]

Good song, and the guitar is indeed excellent. But I think he may have his history wrong. The Panama Limited was an Illinois Central train that ran the same route as the City of New Orleans but on a different time schedule. The D.C. to New Orleans train is the Crescent or Crescent Limited. It runs through Birmingham, Al.

Poetic License taken too far, I think.