Where can i find 'the suicide song?'?

Question

I heard that Billy Holiday sang it but i can't seem to find it anywhhere! aparently about 12 people commited suicide after hearing the song, the original song comes from Hungary and the words don't mean the same in English but i really want to hear it as i LOVE music!

Answer 1

Its called Gloomy Sunday here are the lyrics and some info on the legends of the suicides... I hope this helps there is more at
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/gloomy.htm

LYRICS-
Sunday is gloomy, my hours are slumberless.
Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless.
Little white flowers will never awaken you,
Not where the black coach of sorrow has taken you.
Angels have no thought of ever returning you.
Would they be angry if I thought of joining you?
Gloomy Sunday.

Gloomy is Sunday; with shadows I spend it all.
My heart and I have decided to end it all.
Soon there'll be candles and prayers that are sad, I know.
Death is no dream, for in death I'm caressing you.
With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you.
Gloomy Sunday.

On to the legends:


Up to seventeen suicides were purportedly linked in some way to the song "Gloomy Sunday" in Hungary before the song was (allegedly) banned. These "links" included people who reportedly killed themselves after listening to the song (either from a recording or performed by a band), or who were said to have been found dead with references to "Gloomy Sunday" (and/or its lyrics) in their suicide notes, with "Gloomy Sunday" sheet music in their hands, or with "Gloomy Sunday" playing on gramophones.
I don't know how any of these claims could be verified short of paging through old Hungarian newspapers; even then, it would be difficult at this late date to separate exaggerated and fabricated reports from true ones. I suspect that this portion of the legend is trivially true, a combination of Hungary's historically high suicide rate and the assumption of a causal -- rather than a coincidental -- relationship between the song and suicides that caused rumors and media reports to be greatly exaggerated.

Hungary has had the highest suicide rate of any country for many years (as high as 45.9 per 100,000 people in 1984), so a few dozen suicides there over a year's time certainly wouldn't have been unusual, even in 1936. Nor is it at all uncommon for suicides to work something from popular songs or books or films into their deaths. Only when one particular song was coincidentally linked to a sufficient number of suicides to draw attention to all the suicides in which it played a part did people start to claim that it was somehow the cause of these deaths.


Many claims are made about the reaction to "Gloomy Sunday" by Hungarian authorities, from "discouraging" public performance of the song to an outright ban on it. I have found no reliable information about when, where, or by whom this song might have been banned in one form or another. My guess, based on similar legends (such as the claim that Donald Duck was banned in insert Scandinavian country of choice), would be that some Hungarian municipalities may have instituted some types of (possibly voluntary) restrictions on the song, but that there was no nation-wide ban on "Gloomy Sunday."

The claims about American reaction to the song are even wilder. Some sources claim that no "Gloomy Sunday"-inspired suicides were reported in the USA at all, while others attribute cases of suicide (up to "200 worldwide") in both the USA and Britain to the English-language version of "Gloomy Sunday" (including "young jazz fans" who became depressed after hearing Billie Holiday's version of the song). Likewise, while some sources say that there were no restrictions whatsoever placed on the song in the USA, others claim that it was "banned from the airwaves." (Sometimes the ban is said to have been directed at a particular version of the song, such as Billie Holiday's recording of it.) Some sources even claim that a sort of "compromise" ban was enacted as many radio stations played only the instrumental version of the song.

The "girlfriend who inspired the song committed suicide" claims sounds like an embellishment of the basic legend, as I only found one source that mentioned it. It claimed that Javor "wrote the song for a former girlfriend," and that shortly after its release she committed suicide and left behind a note reading simply "Gloomy Sunday."

Rezso Seress did indeed commit suicide, jumping from a Budapest building in 1968. This portion of the legend also appears to have been embellished, with some sources claiming that he was depressed because he'd never been able to produce another hit after "Gloomy Sunday."

Answer 2

Four songs off the top of my head without looking up wiki and other posts: Alone Again (Naturally) by Gilbert O'Sullivan Associate this with the movie Stuart Little Sucide is Painless - Theme from MARSH I've always wondered about the title of this song and why it was for the MARSH series Mad World by Gary Jules I'll associate this song that was featured in our local commercial about holiday road tolls Bring Me To Life by Evanescence I thought it was about vampires and stuff until I read somewhere it was about suicide. Go figure. All of these songs are great to play on the piano.

Answer 3

The original title is "Szomorú vasárnap", which means "Gloomy sunday". some months ago I have prepared a link-collection about it.
Unfortunately, imitation has a great effect on suicidal behaviour, especially in Hungary. This song is often called "The Hungarian suicide song".

Answer 4

I know a song by Billy Holiday called "Strange fruit" about black people being hanged on trees...very shocking and sad, but it was a reality in her time...I have it because of the background and deep meaning of it, but I don't like to hear it, it makes me sad and not proud to be human, but I don't think about suicide...
Hope it helps.

Answer 5

have you tried going to www.limewire.com and downloading it and installing it and you can download any song you want to or movies and much more! An its free. Hope this helps.

Answer 6

i just made a search and this was one of the results:
www.mperia.com/genre.php?code=wbrp&parent=0
check it out!
and other websites for songs:
www.seekasong.com
www.hitmp3.us
www.getmusicfree.com
www.mp3000.net
www.emp3world.com
www.music.download.com
www.artistdirect.com
www.mp3fusion.net
www.emp3finder.com
www.mp3fresh.net
www.mp3-center.org
hope u find what u r looking for!
goodluck!

Answer 7

I had never heard of this.

Answer 8

i dont know but i think its like ''they'll kill us all'' andit keeps on going

Answer 9

you dont need to commit sucide.you have a whole life a head of you. please be caution.