what song makes you cry???

[Caukill]

Well, they might not strictly reduce me to tears but at the very least they can conjure a fairly big lump in the throat:
'Delgado' - Gene Clark & Carla Olson
'Hurt' - Johnny Cash
'Haunted' - Pogues (version from Sid & Nancy)
'Wish you were here' Pink Floyd

[GOD KNOWS]

Rainy night in Soho does it for me

[sheva]

Well, I'm a sentimental fool, and certain songs do it every time.

Dylan's My Back Pages (I love the Byrds' version, but only Bob's makes me cry)
Kinks' Waterloo Sunset
Shipbuilding (Wyatt's version more than Costello's, although that one can do it as well)
Costello's London's Brilliant Parade (which figures, seeing as how it's his version of Waterloo Sunset)

and from the Pogues - Waltzing Matilda and Thousands are Sailing. Every time.

[soulfinger]

Rainy night in Soho does it for me

Me too. Along with:

It'll Never Be Over For Me - Timi Yuro
I'm On My Way - Dean Parrish (It's a Wigan Thing, anyone who ever went to the Casino and saw 8 a.m. will know what I mean)

[Call Girl Sally]

A Pair of brown eyes, Rainy night in Soho, Fairytale of New York, More pricks then kicks (can that count?) if so Lonesome Highway. Good luck with promotion to the Premiership soulfire, assuming you’re a Wigan fan.

[shamroxann]

a pogues song that always makes me cry is thousands are sailing. it for some reason reminds me of my pop-pop. he raised his family and worked his farm all his life then had to move to philadelphia, but never wanted to (long story, to long for here), then never set foot on irish soil again. but he embraced this country while always thinkng of home till the day he died. he always had a song for his grandkids, so when the line comes "and we danced to the music and we danced, i often lose it.

[carol]

a pogues song that always makes me cry is thousands are sailing. it for some reason reminds me of my pop-pop. he raised his family and worked his farm all his life then had to move to philadelphia, but never wanted to (long story, to long for here), then never set foot on irish soil again. but he embraced this country while always thinkng of home till the day he died. he always had a song for his grandkids, so when the line comes "and we danced to the music and we danced, i often lose it.

I also had a Pop-Pop, but it was his father who immigrated, and it was to DC rather than to Philadelphia. But "Thousands Are Sailing" brings a tear to my eye for similar, if not the exact same reasons you've given.

[CraigBatty]

Grace - Frank and Sean O'Meara

[Quincy Dan]

Not to tears, but "Thousands" gets me going , also. I noted in a previous post that it reminded me of my grandmother who came over in 1924 and never went back, even when she had the chance. She didn't want to have to leave a second time. And twice I walked in on her crying to an old Irish album she was playing.

[body-of-an-american]

thousand are sailing
depends what mood im in-

[zora]

Kalinka, the italian version: it's the anthem of the red partisans during the II W.W

[body-of-an-american]

any fucking song would make me cry today, even no song, actually , im crying right now, but i think thats just the onions , today is the worst fucking day if my life.

[cougar]

Not to tears, but "Thousands" gets me going , also. I noted in a previous post that it reminded me of my grandmother who came over in 1924 and never went back, even when she had the chance. She didn't want to have to leave a second time. And twice I walked in on her crying to an old Irish album she was playing.

not a song...but that almost did it
Navigator almost gets me there

[Irishman]

Fairytale Of New York because it reminds me of what happened to Kirsty and how a great lady was taken away from us.

And Danny Boy sung by Frank Patterson, In my opinion the best version of the song.

[Heather]

Days by Kirsty MacColl.