# proufound songs from bands that surprised you

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**Created:** [January 11, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proufound-songs-from-bands-that-surprised-you/846272 "2020-01-11T10:25:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proufound-songs-from-bands-that-surprised-you/846272/21 "2020-01-18T00:34:20Z")

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Jimmy Buffett has some very interesting and contemplative songs that are great departures from “Cheeseburger in Paradise” or what most people think “Margaritaville” says. He’s written some sweet love songs like “Love in the Library” and fascinating portraits of characters he’s met, like “A Pirate Looks at Forty” and “He Went to Paris”

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady  
And left him with only on eye  
His body was battered, his world was shattered  
And all he could do was just cry.  
While the tears were falling, he was recalling  
The answers he never found  
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean  
And left England without a sound.

Many songs describe different aspects of humanity, like “Oysters and Pearls” and others are pictures of places.

Here’s a database that lists the titles and lyrics of all his songs. [http://www.buffettnews.com/resources/songs/?cid=ALL](http://www.buffettnews.com/resources/songs/?cid=ALL)

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**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proufound-songs-from-bands-that-surprised-you/846272/22 "2020-01-18T03:08:04Z")

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AC/DC’s Bon Scott’s songs were always about being in a rock’n’roll band, booze, women and all the excess. Of course the song was also about rock, bottles and girls, but he became astoundingly introspective about that lifestyle in [Ride On](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUGvdxuQGQ), one of the very few slow (blues) songs by the band. In a way, the song foreshadowed his death a few years later.

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**Author:** ![atimnie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atimnie/32/11_2.png) [@atimnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atimnie)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2020, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/proufound-songs-from-bands-that-surprised-you/846272/23 "2020-01-18T07:46:23Z")

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The Association, Requiem for the Masses

_Black and white was the newsprint he was mentioned in  
Black and white were the figures that recorded him  
Black and white was the question that so bothered him  
He never asked, he was taught not to ask  
But was on his lips as they buried him_

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