Female vocalist…
Evanesance – Going Under
Andain – Beautiful Things – actually that would be really killer if you sang it.
GLaDDOS – Still Alive
Other Sad songs.
Alan Parsons Project – Old and Wise, silence and I, turn of a friendly card, don’t let it show,
Genesis – mad man moon
Rich Mullins – hard to get
Steve Scott – not a pretty picture
Steve Taylor – harder to believe than not to (extra points for ironic title?)
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when,
but I know well meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through, just like you, always do,
’till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please, say hello, to the folks that I know,
tell them I wont be long, they’ll be happy to know
that as they saw me go I was singing this song.
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when,
but I know well meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through, just like you, always do,
’till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please, say hello, to the folks that I know,
tell them I wont be long, they’ll be happy to know
that as they saw me go I was singing this song.
But I KNOW we’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I know well meet again, some sunny day!
If ya wanted to use an older song you could go with Seasons in the Sun. Or if you’re into sappy songs, try Honey by Bobby Goldsboro. Those two always make me feel sad. Mansions of the Lord makes me cry. What a beautiful song.
Fair warning – I have a bizarrely eclectic music collection
Sad songs with Female Vocals:
Hate You Didn’t Try – Leah Andreone
Sally’s Pigeons – Cyndi Lauper
Trouble – Shawn Colvin
Those Were the Days – Mary Hopkin
Everytime – Britney Spears
Jolene – Mindy Smith
Love is a Killer, Cryin’ – Vixen
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Baez cover of Dylan)
Leftover Wine, Momma Momma, Some Say – Melanie Safka
On My Own – from Les Miserables
My Immortal – Evanescence
Bang Bang – Nancy Sinatra
And some from male vocalists but I’m sure you could adjust them, key change, octave change, whatever to fit your range:
Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
Teachers, Avalanche, Hallalujah, A Singer Must Die, Everybody Knows, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong, The Partisan – all Leonard Cohen
The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel (Shawn Colvin and others did a gorgeous cover – female vocals)
A Strange Day – The Cure
The Price – Twisted Sister
There Isn’t Here, Queen of Diamonds – Garrett Randolph
Tell Laura I Love Her – Ray Peterson
Cross the Brazos at Waco – I have no freakin’ clue
Also:
This Ain’t the Summer of Love – Blue Oyster Cult
Waltzing Matilda – whoever
No Milk Today – Herman’s Hermits
Hell is for Children, The Outlaw – Pat Benatar
Luka – Suzanne Vega
How about the communist anthem?
No! A pipey song.
You could probably do something good with Danny Boy (Oh Johnny Boy… The press, the press is howling…)
Swing low, sweet chariot!
“May It Be” from Lord of the Rings.
March of Cambreadth…..no it isn’t a sad song….it is now my war cry
I am now John Galt, please join me
Jimmy, “May it Be” is good. I also just thought of “My Skin” by Natalie Merchant.
Motzart’s Requiem-Lacrimosa is very mournful.
Cup of Coffee by Garbage.
P.S. Shirley Manson is the hot red-headed terminator on the Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Funny, I was just listening to “No Woman No Cry”.
Female vocalist…
Evanesance – Going Under
Andain – Beautiful Things – actually that would be really killer if you sang it.
GLaDDOS – Still Alive
Other Sad songs.
Alan Parsons Project – Old and Wise, silence and I, turn of a friendly card, don’t let it show,
Genesis – mad man moon
Rich Mullins – hard to get
Steve Scott – not a pretty picture
Steve Taylor – harder to believe than not to (extra points for ironic title?)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow as sung by Eva Cassidy.
What about “How many Roads must a man walk down” Joplin, right?
Stu played Johnny Cash’s version of “Dirt” on the Glenn Beck webcast. Pretty much perfect.
We’ll meet again, dont know where, dont know when!
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when,
but I know well meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through, just like you, always do,
’till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please, say hello, to the folks that I know,
tell them I wont be long, they’ll be happy to know
that as they saw me go I was singing this song.
We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when,
but I know well meet again, some sunny day.
Keep smiling through, just like you, always do,
’till the blue skies drive the dark clouds, far away.
So will you please, say hello, to the folks that I know,
tell them I wont be long, they’ll be happy to know
that as they saw me go I was singing this song.
But I KNOW we’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when, but I know well meet again, some sunny day!
In The Arms of The Angels,
I Will Wait For You,
The Rose,
America the Beautiful.
Mansions of the Lord
If ya wanted to use an older song you could go with Seasons in the Sun. Or if you’re into sappy songs, try Honey by Bobby Goldsboro. Those two always make me feel sad. Mansions of the Lord makes me cry. What a beautiful song.
Eve of Destruction – the Turtles
Bonny Light Horseman
http://www.amazon.com/The-Bonny-Light-Horseman/dp/B00138CJIY
Cry Me a River – the Julie London arrangement
Evening of the Day by the Stones as done by Marianne Faithful [when she wasn’t stoned]
“So This is Goodbye” by Stina Nordingham
I’ll Stand By You – The Pretenders
Won’t let nobody hurt you… even to your darkest hour… and I’ll never desert you… I’ll stand by you.
Fair warning – I have a bizarrely eclectic music collection
Sad songs with Female Vocals:
Hate You Didn’t Try – Leah Andreone
Sally’s Pigeons – Cyndi Lauper
Trouble – Shawn Colvin
Those Were the Days – Mary Hopkin
Everytime – Britney Spears
Jolene – Mindy Smith
Love is a Killer, Cryin’ – Vixen
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Baez cover of Dylan)
Leftover Wine, Momma Momma, Some Say – Melanie Safka
On My Own – from Les Miserables
My Immortal – Evanescence
Bang Bang – Nancy Sinatra
And some from male vocalists but I’m sure you could adjust them, key change, octave change, whatever to fit your range:
Runaway Train – Soul Asylum
Teachers, Avalanche, Hallalujah, A Singer Must Die, Everybody Knows, One of Us Cannot Be Wrong, The Partisan – all Leonard Cohen
The Boxer – Simon & Garfunkel (Shawn Colvin and others did a gorgeous cover – female vocals)
A Strange Day – The Cure
The Price – Twisted Sister
There Isn’t Here, Queen of Diamonds – Garrett Randolph
Tell Laura I Love Her – Ray Peterson
Cross the Brazos at Waco – I have no freakin’ clue
Also:
This Ain’t the Summer of Love – Blue Oyster Cult
Waltzing Matilda – whoever
No Milk Today – Herman’s Hermits
Hell is for Children, The Outlaw – Pat Benatar
Luka – Suzanne Vega
“Dirt” by NIN is a good choice, but for female vocals I’d go with “Planet Hell” by Nightwish…if you’re a spectacular operatic vocalist.