# Pop Music Asks the Eternal Questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661 "2002-12-14T01:26:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/1 "2002-12-14T01:26:01Z")
How many pop/rock songs contain questions? I can think of: who put the bomp… why do fools fall in love? Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers why does it hurt when I pee? Frank Zappa Name some other songs with questions in them. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/2 "2002-12-14T01:29:30Z")
doo wah doo wah doo wah yes, wah does. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/3 "2002-12-14T06:34:44Z")
Why do birds suddenly appear…? (okay, maybe not the most rockin’ song… 😉 ) “Why does it always seem to be me looking at you, you looking at me?” ( **That’s All** - Genesis) “but you don’t really care for music, do you?” ( **Hallelujah** - Leonard Cohen) “How can a view become so twisted?” ( **The Things You Said** - Depeche Mode) ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/4 "2002-12-14T07:21:03Z")
From an old pop song: “And so it seems that we have lived before, and laughed before and loved before, but who knows where or when?” ---
**Author:** ![Bullwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Bullwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/5 "2002-12-14T07:33:22Z")
Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof, woof, woof! (repeat 8,916 times) ---
**Author:** ![marinwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marinwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marinwood)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/6 "2002-12-14T07:40:54Z")
“Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/7 "2002-12-14T07:58:21Z")
If mares eat oats and does eat oat, do little lambs eat ivy? ---
**Author:** ![Bullwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Bullwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/8 "2002-12-14T08:10:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*If mares eat oats and does eat oat, do little lambs eat ivy? \*\* I think it’s “Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. A kid’ll eat ivy too, wouldn’t you?” (At least that’s the way Ozzy sang t at the Cow Palace in '73.) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/9 "2002-12-14T08:15:26Z")
Won’t you tell me… Where have all the good times gone? (Ray Davies) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/10 "2002-12-14T14:25:51Z")
“So this is love?” Van Halen (when they were good and had D L R) ---
**Author:** ![Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/11 "2002-12-14T16:03:12Z")
“How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?” “Where have all the flowers gone?” “Will you still love me tomorrow?” “If I fell in love with you would you promise to be true and help me understand?” “Has anyone here seen my old friend Abraham?” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/12 "2002-12-14T16:21:25Z")
Who wrote the book of love? ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/13 "2002-12-14T16:42:02Z")
(This is really **rjk** , typing for **Zyada**.) Do you think I’m sexy? - Rod Stewart (I do, BTW! – rjk) ---
**Author:** ![fizgig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f04885/32.png) [@fizgig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizgig)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/14 "2002-12-14T16:51:11Z")
Where have all the cowboys gone? Isn’t it ironic? Don’tcha think? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/15 "2002-12-14T20:18:57Z")
Some oldies but goodies: **What Have They Done To The Rain?** by Melanie Safka **What Will Mary Say?** by Johnny Mathis **What’d I Say?** by Mr. Ray Charles **What’s Your Name?** by Lynyrd Skynyrd **Where Did Our Love Go?** by The Supremes **When Will I Be Loved?** by the Everly Brothers (1960, #8) and by Linda Ronstadt (1975, #2) **Where Were You When I Needed You?** by the Grass Roots **How Deep is Your Love** by the Bee Gees **Who Do You Love?** by Quicksilver Messenger Service ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-music-asks-the-eternal-questions/142661/16 "2002-12-14T21:33:01Z")
Double thread. This one’s lower on the totem pole, so it’s the one I’ll close.