I love this song, and consider it the saddest song ever.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

This is the Bette Midler version, and when I decided to post it, and double checked the lyrics, I was astonished to see it was written by John Prine. How ironic. The definition of irony.

[lunasun]

1. Yes he did . I never heard the version you posted before . Here's him doing the song below since

your post implied you never heard him sing it . Yes good song either way
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[Kali]

2. no, THIS is the saddest song ever

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Thank you for posting this.

I had never heard that song before. It's amazing.

And forgive my ignorance, but who is the woman singing?

I know. I live under a very large rock.

[Kali]

6. Kathy Mattea

her husband wrote it about his grandparents, I don't know anything else she has done but the first time I heard this I cried my eyes out and have never forgotten it.

(you can always click on the title of a you tube vid and it will take you to the actual page, and then to that black hole of endless links and recommended stuff LOL)

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Thank you.

Somehow I'd never heard of her. Plus, I had no idea that clicking on the title of a you tube video led anywhere useful. Thanks again.

As I said above, it's a very large rock that I live under.

[Kali]

8. leading anywhere useful

might be an exaggeration, but you are most welcome!

[pnwest]

10. I'd forgotten this wonderful song from the

short bit of time that I was into country music. I liked it. Plus, now my mom is in memory care, and I have juuuuust enough Margarita in me that this just had me bawling like a baby! This is a very sad, sweet song.

[treestar]

3. Joan Baez

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Thank you.

A very long time ago I had that album, and I'd totally forgotten that song was on it.

[deurbano]

9. Baez introduced me to John Prine through that song, and I'm forever grateful.

[ReformedGOPer]

11. +1

[Fla Dem]

12. This one always touched my heart.

"Tears in Heaven" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings about the pain Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a window of the 53rd-floor New York apartment of his mother's friend, on March 20, 1991. Clapton, who arrived at the apartment shortly after the accident, was visibly distraught for months afterwards. This song is one of Clapton's most successful, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the U.S. The song also spent three weeks at #1 on the American adult contemporary chart in 1992.

[marble falls]

13. My children were the age of his son. I was in NYC for just one day the day it happened ...

and of course the NY Post had to print the photo of Connor on the roof where he fell ... at this time my eldest daughter (four) was trying to figure out how to fly and I was worried she'd go out a window. I just cannot handle listening to that song 30 years later.

There is power in music.