Talk:Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

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"...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 [1]. Frencheigh 05:16, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

ILL SMASH ANYMOTHERFUCKER! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.157.99.135 (talk) 08:37, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I always thought it was about "Two Kids Fooling Around"

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)