This Song Makes me Weep

The only song guaranteed to make me weep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylOCIP54PIQ. As for folk, I remember a floor singer singing The Plains of Waterloo at the Bay Hotel Folk Club in Cullercoats in the early 1980s; .... It's even filtered down to the 'exercise book' merchants. I heard one the other day say, "I can't sing, so I'll recite it" - he then went on to demonstrate that, in addition to his lack of singing prowess, he couldn't even recite from a book without ...