swan & golden girl -- my father used to sing my bonnie to me too, telling me how his father sang it to him. everyone cried.
danny boy -- words of a father to his son going off to war. he is sick and knows he will die before he ever sees his son again.
if you could read my mind - gordon lightfoot. calls to mind the emptiness and hopelessness at the end of my first marriage.
send in the clowns - of the mistiming that often happens in life.
and in the far recesses of my memory -- in second grade there was a little girl who would sing of the butcher boy from jersey city. in the song he steals her heart and then leaves her. she kills herself and they bury her with pebbles from head to feet. just bits of the lyrics i remember. i used to cry and cry. anyone know this song?
a recent song that is very moving is "live like you were dying" tim mcgraw. the first time i heard it it blew me away.