Woe is me explained

Woe is me is an archaic idiom expressing sorrow or despair. It is an allusion to Psalm 120.

"Woe is me" also may refer to:

TV

• "Woe Is Me", episode of 1980s television series My Little Pony

Music

• • "Woe Is Me", anthem by Thomas Tomkins Woe, Is Me (band), from Atlanta, Georgia
• Woe Is Me, album by Johnny Griffin and Dennis Irwin (Jazz Hour, 1988)

Songs

• "Woe Is Me", from musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• "Woe Is Me" (1956), The Cadillacs, Esther Navarro
• "Woe Is Me" (1963), Helen Shapiro, Sharon Sheeley, Jackie De Shannon

• "Woe Is Me" (1965), Ray Kimble and the Flaming Embers
• "Woe Is Me" (1973), Woe Is Me", Bobby Lee Trammell
• "Woe Is Me" (1979), Spike Milligan and Ed Welch
• "Oh Woe Is Me" (1982), Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, on I Love Rock 'n' Roll (album)
• "Oh! Woe Is Me" (2006), Rocketship, on Here Comes... Rocketship (album)
• "Whoa Is Me" (2010), by Down With Webster
• "Woe Is Meee" (2017), by Ghostpoet from Dark Days + Canapés