Saddest Song of 70s??

Just sang Harry Chapin's Cats in the Cradle ; as a father now damn that's one depressing chorus

 

I don't know if it's the saddest but it's got the sad feels.

 

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Henry Gross' Shannon, which is about a dog who dies.

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Ruby (Don't Take Your Love to Town), which is about a paralyzed war veteran whose wife goes out every night to have sex with other men, is pretty damn sad.

EDIT: It's actually from 1967.

 

Rainy Days and Mondays is a sad song from The Carpenters. God, she had such a beautiful voice. Wasn't chopped liver, either.

Seasons in the Sun is a tearjerker from Terry Jacks.

And who can forget Shannon? (Casey Kasem sure couldn't. Google Casey Kasem Shannon sometime and have fun.)

 

Speaking of the Carpenters:

 

Maybe not sad but melancholy. Diana Ross' original version of Touch Me In The Morning.

 

He kind of specialized in those. "Taxi," for one, which didn't get a lot of air time since it was longform.

 

It isn't straightforward sadness from just reading the lyrics, but Diana Ross singing the Theme from Mahogany (aka Do You Know Where You're Going To?) belongs in the Melancholy HOF.