It usually has to be 'a season-or-so since I last heard' it to get me really tearing up (even if they ARE "crocodile tears"---tears leaking without the accompanying moan of anguish), but ... well, see:
Maybe it's The Truth of the song; as I think I first heard it mostly-removed from the 'dead father-Mufasa'-context, and at a church-camp (where that kind of pronoun ('he, they, him, them') always means The Holy Personage).
Thoughts?






