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For What It's Worth
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Buffalo Springfield
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For What It's Worth Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Setting
In the early 1960s, the LA music scene was dominated by folk music, with a few surfer bands cruising in in the Beach Boys' wake. But after the British invasion, the LA scene was transformed, and th...
Title
You might have noticed that the line "for what it's worth" doesn't ever appear in the song itself. Nonetheless, the title does seem to make sense; the speaker in the song is asking listeners to loo...