Talk:Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

message: :"...as for the rest of it, it was just a fantasy song. I'm not sure that it meant anything, although there was a sort of a famous interpretation of it here by Truman Capote that said it was all about homosexual experience in the schoolyard.
:That you'd had or he'd had ?
:Certainly not that I'd had. I don't know the reason, but that's what he thought the song was about."
:From . Frencheigh 05:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

message: Did you ever hear Simon sing this song? He doesn't sing "... every time that Jane gets mentioned, Well Papa said O if I get that Jane, I'm going to put her in a STY of detention."
He sings (on serveral recordings) "every time *my name* gets mentioned", "Oh, if I get *that boy*" and "I'm gonna put *him* in a house of detention. No Jane, nor "her" involved here.
Best wishes ... 
87.79.161.50 (talk) 19:23, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Lyrics! 

message: Why does this article contain a long, rambling argument to support the homosexual relationship interpretation with nothing to back it up? It may be fact that it has been interpreted that way, and it may be fact that some of these points have been used to support that, but those facts would need to be presented as something like, "I.M. Listening argued in a book entitled Fifty Ways to Obscure Your Meaning that the lyrics speak of..." A sourceless argument for one interpretation is just opinionated conjecture.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.148.210.45 (talk) 01:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality? 

message: My interpretation was that the mother and father are the parents of "Rosie", and not of the protagonist.  I had assumed that the mother saw the protagonist and her daughter in some compromising situation which was "against the law".  I had assumed this was under-aged sex, where both of the parties are below the age of consent, which is often 16 years old, but this varies from year to year and in different jurisdictions.
Rosie's parent's made an issue of it, brought in the police, and the "radical priest" stepped in to defend the protagonist, leading to them all getting photographed for the cover of Newsweek.
--Eugene Girard (talk) 15:59, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You forgot about Julio. :P Salvar (talk) 04:31, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I always thought it was about "Two Kids Fooling Around" 

message: ..is what's that noise called they make in the song that sounds like a cross between a dog barking and a dove cooing ? 70.131.101.242 (talk) 18:38, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What I want to know 

message: The slang term "emcees" should not be used in an encyclopaedia.Royalcourtier (talk) 19:51, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emcees 

message: The Video section mentions Halsey JHS in Forest Hills.  First, Halsey is in Rego Park, not Forest Hills.  Second, while I haven't been able to find any confirmation as to which one Paul Simon went to, assuming his bio page is correct in saying he lived in Kew Garden Hills, Russell Sage JHS in Forest Hills seems far more likely. Finally, is there any justification for saying either of these was the basis for the song or video?  The song only mentions Corona, and while I can't swear that Corona didn't feed Halsey or Sage, that doesn't feel right.   GaryFx (talk) 23:08, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  School error in Video section