Favorite Farewell Songs

  • Thread starter Thread starter meltzerboy2
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Gosh, if we’re going that direction . . .

Country Bumpkin, Cal Smith (CMA song of the year for 1974)

But you can’t really top “He Stopped Loving Her Today”, George Jones, (Song of the year for 1978–and he very much didn’t want to record it!)

I don’t think we’re in the mood of Charley Rich’s “Thank God and Greyhound She’s Gone” (which led to a later spoof of “I Say We Give Them the Bomb”).

Gosh, every third country song . . .

Outsidew of country, there’s “Seasons in the Sun” . . . (Which was adapted for my 8th grade class song).

But overall, if you want sad or maudlin, you really end up with country and a few non-country also-rans.
 
I’ll give you that Dolly’s is great.

😜

(although I think the version of Hard Candy Christmas from the same movie is better [also better’ than her singing it herself])

Other than that, there’s not much to be said for that movie, other than how amusing it was to listen to the country stations try to talk about it without using the actual title . . .
 
Celtic singer/songwriter Carmel Boyle co-wrote this plaintive refrain with Ger Holton for the dedication of “The Tower of Remembrance” in Sterling, N.J in memory of the victims of 9/11. It has been used to express the grief of other tragic events. And though this farewell doesn’t even come close to those horrific times, it is the good-bye hymn that came to my mind.

 

By the way, the Indian Army played this at the handing over ceremony on Independence day.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top