Post one of your generation's best heartache songs?

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dragonfly forty-six Profile

I wish I could but I can't figure out this embedding situation from my phone or my device.  Anyway, for me there are two. Very different but I love them both.

Pictures of You from The Cure

It's a Heartache from Bonnie Tyler

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dragonfly forty-six
Yeah, it is a very unique voice. It goes with the wretched feeling you have in a break up. Lol
Ray Dart
Ray Dart commented
It was mondegreened here as "It's a hard egg" (and now I have told you that, you will never be able to hear it again without thinking that was what she was singing).
Janis Haskell
Janis Haskell commented
Don't feel too badly, Ray .... I thought Credence was singing "There's a bathroom on the right" :)
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Skip Gentry answered

Patches by Dickey Lee

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Janis Haskell
Janis Haskell commented
Oh, how that one hurt! "It may not be right, but I'll join you tonight .... Patches, I'm comin' to you." I cried my little adolescent eyes out. Thank you !!
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Ray Dart answered

I always liked "Girl" by the Beatles, and slightly AFTER my time was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOQgL731Ac

Alas Mr Vanwarmer is no longer with us.

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Janis Haskell
Janis Haskell commented
Beautiful song .... I had already fallen in love with it by the Everly Brothers, and it was worth bringing back :)
Janis Haskell
Janis Haskell commented
I learn something new each day too! I knew that one well because I was a huge Everly Brothers fan in the late 50's and the 60's.
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Ancient One answered

Tennessee Waltz

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