Best cry-in-your-beer song

[bevo barry]

If I'm ever feeling I need to let the tears fall, but I'm just not at the place where they flow freely, I just grab me a cold brew, think of that special gal that got away, and click on this YouTube link...then the waterfall begins:
The Link

 

[accuratehorn]

The Link

This will continue the mood nicely.

 

[TigerPride]

Whiskey Lullaby.

 

[AustinTejasFan]

The Link

 

[AustinTejasFan]

Or this; The Link

 

[AustinTejasFan]

The Link
The Link

 

[PFD]

Great call on Gary Stewart.

A couple of my other favorites:

What I'd Say

Nobody in His Right Mind

 

[Pogo]

I lean more towards Alt-country power ballad waltz for my cry-in-the-beer song.
Roger Clyne - Green & Dumb

 

[general35]

There's a tear in my beer
'cause I'm cryin' for you,dear
you are on my lonely mind.
Into these last nine beers
I have shed a million tears.
You are on my lonely mind
I'm gonna keep drinkin'
until I'm petrified.
And then maybe these tears
will leave my eyes.
There's a tear in my beer
cause I'm crying' for you dear
You are on my lonely mind.

 

[Third Coast]

Not a big country fan, but I like this, although musically I actually prefer the Vertical Horizon original. I suppose this one is a little more heart wrenching, because Allan covered it not long after his wife committed suicide.

Gary Allan - Best I Ever Had

 

[J.R.69]

A Hank Williams entry:
The Link

 

[bevo barry]

Or the BJ Thomas version of the song posted just above:
The Link

 

[OldHippie]

Willie Nelson
Bubbles in my beer

 

[AustinTejasFan]

George Jones The Link

 

[AustinTejasFan]

Hank Thompson The Link

And Kitty Wells answer The Link

 

[TxStHorn]

Crystal Gayle - I'll Get Over You

 

[J.R.69]

Dean Martin's entry:
The Link

When I was in advanced training in the Army, there was an old sergeant assigned to my company, who was apparently just biding his time until he could retire. He never did anything even remotely connected to our training, and company officers just looked the other way.

He always wore dark sunglasses, and he went out every night and got drunk, stumbling back after midnight, usually crying, and always singing this Dean Martin song.

Absolutely the saddest person I ever knew.

 

[accuratehorn]

If you don't shed a tear while enjoying this song, you might be a robot:

The Link

And, those great Gary Stewart songs and a cooler full of beer will get you through many bad times. I can attest to that. There may be no greater late night tailgating music.

For all you old Austinities, it don't get no sadder than this:

The Link

A song for the married folk:

The Link

For you formerly married folk:
The Link

 

[The Eyes of Texas]

If you love (in my case, loved) your father, and football....this is the saddest song ever....

The Blind Man in the Bleachers

 

[Hornius Emeritus]

Nobody does it like Old Blue Eyes:


The Link


The night is bitter, the stars have lost their glitter
The winds grow colder, suddenly you're a lot older
And all because of a gal who got away
No more her eager call, the writing is on the wall
All those dreams you dreamed, they have all gone astray

The gal who won you, she's run off and undone you
That great beginning has seen the final inning
I don't know what happened, its all a crazy game

 

[TRRW#31]

Volver Volver by the MAN

I epic win.

 

[NB_LONGHORN]

Ballad of the Snow Leopard

 

[DallasCowpoke]

John Wesley Ryles - "Fool"

The Stanley Brothers- "Rank Stranger"

KEITH WHITLEY- TELL LORRIE I LOVE HER

 

[Unques prist]

I second Whiskey Lullaby and add:

"That's My Job" by Conway Twitty and

"Don't Take the Girl" by Tim McGraw

 

[stina]

I went through a country phase many years ago and it was Crystal Gale's "Don't it make my brown eyes blue".