Sad Love Songs

Oh Lonesome Me

It is a sad love song, but it has such a nice beat, and such a nice tune. “Ev’rybody’s goin’ out an’ havin’ fun. I’m just a fool for stayin’ home an’ havin’ none.” I loved singing that song and it was one of my favorite love songs when I was young. This version is June Carter and Don Gibson.

Heartaches by the number by Ray Price

One guy was in the military where everything was done by numbers, so he wrote a song called: “Heartaches by the number,” which was a hit when I was young. It is such a swinging song, even though it is sad.

Things

Bobby Darin had a song called “Things.” There was a time when that song would make me so sad when I sang it to myself, and had no girlfriend.

A sad love song by Jim Reeves

I mentioned earlier that I was into Jim Reeves’ songs when I was a teenager, and some of them would make me very sad and blue. One particular song wasn’t good for me. It was called: ”A letter to my Heart.” It is about a guy singing to his heart, to forget the girl who didn’t want him. “If you won’t stop beating for her, then dear heart stop beating for me.” If someone doesn’t want us, we have to leave the past behind and press on to the future. Like they say “there are plenty more fish in the ocean.” I keep thinking of a story in the Bible where God tells the prophet Samuel to stop mourning over King Saul, and go and anoint a new king. So many country songs are about mourning over lost love. It is not good to cry over the past, we need to look forward to the future.

I’ve enjoyed as much of this as I can stand

One time when I was at college in Salisbury, I was dating a girl, then she told me her boyfriend was coming into town the next day. That shocked me. I thought I was her boyfriend. I went back to the residence, and was singing to console myself, when the others guys were all laughing. It was a song I heard Jim Reeves sing. It starts off very nice, “You look lovelier tonight than I remember, I’m so glad I got to see you once again.” Then it ends with, “I’ve enjoyed as much of this as I can stand.” Sometimes songs can help console a person.

I can’t stop loving you

Another song that is so real to me is, “I can’t stop loving you, it’s useless to say, so I’ll just live my life in dreams of yesterday.” Lots of singers have sung that song, but Ray Charles does it real good. I love the ladies singing that high harmony with him. “Those happy hours, that we once knew, though long ago, still make me blue.”

Bye Bye Love

Another sad song I used to sing a lot when I was a teenager was “Bye, bye love, bye, bye happiness, hello emptiness.” I heard it on an Everly Brothers record. I loved their harmony and their music. Someone lent my brother an LP where they were on a motor bike, with the guy on the back having a guitar slung around his back. It looked like those guys were living such an exciting life. All these images were fixed in my mind as a teenager. The world of music and singing seemed so exciting.

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