Regardless of the source, she likes her songs plain-spoken and plaintive.

You were not surprised that he succumbed to Orphée's plaintive song.

Here ran the antelope, and by night the coyotes called their plaintive songs to the silent stars.

From far away the plaintive song still reached her ear.

But it was the final movement of the work, a simple, plaintive song that made the deepest impression.

The last crickets of the year chirping their plaintive song.

From her childish lips came a sweet, almost plaintive song.

A woman's voice was lifted in a plaintive song.

Could it be that the alarm she heard was somehow connected to his plaintive yet raucous songs?

- or in the way she turns "Here Comes the Sun" into a plaintive song of redemption.