# Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2004, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031 "2004-07-14T05:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/21 "2004-07-14T21:39:18Z")
> [@LMM](#): > > And Simon is definitely a writer identified with New York, and a former resident, or near-resident, of the neighborhood in question. And I don’t doubt he is also referencing that neighborhood. That’s why it’s a _double_ entendre. ---
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/22 "2004-07-14T21:58:20Z")
Related question: What musical instrument is it that makes the sort of whistling monkey hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot on this song? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/23 "2004-07-14T21:58:33Z")
> [@Coelacanth Soup](#): > > Its often the case that lyricists (and poets) write words that have no concrete meaning even to themselves. Paul McCartney, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/24 "2004-07-14T22:03:48Z")
Given the eara, I assumed it was draft card burning. P.S. [hijack]Coelacanth Soup?? That’s just wrong. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/25 "2004-07-14T22:05:02Z")
That would be “era.” ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/26 "2004-07-14T22:31:34Z")
> [@LMM](#): > > I always thought the singer was sleeping with the underage Rosie, gets caught, has to run away rather than go to the house of detention, agrees to meet his friend Julio down by the schoolyard, and is saying goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona. That’s the way I always thought of it. Then again, I didn’t disect it much at all. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/27 "2004-07-14T22:33:29Z")
> [@Coelacanth Soup](#): > > Isn’t there a hot dog/papaya stand in Queens named Queen of Corona or King of Corona or Corona King that has benn around since the 50’s? > > Its often the case that lyricists (and poets) write words that have no concrete meaning even to themselves. They write for the sounds of the words themselves and for the visceral emotion that phrase elicits. The resulting ambiguity ends up being more than a side-effect, however, by adding more mystery, depth, absurdity, or profundity to the piece as a whole. You took the words right out of my mouth- how did you know that I was going to say that? And ‘Blinded By The Light’ springs to mind. :wally ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/28 "2004-07-14T23:08:09Z")
> [@Coelacanth Soup](#): > > Related question: > > What musical instrument is it that makes the sort of whistling monkey hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot on this song? I don’t know what it is called but I saw some in Brazil. It looks like a gord, or hollowed out shell/drum, with a stretchy membrane over the open end. The “player” sticks his hand into the membrane and by moving it in and out (it was actually bloody obscene! 😃 Much like a “fisting” scene in a porno I once saw! ) creates this strange sound. Seemed to be pretty common in Samba music. Hope that helps. Maybe you can find a better answer out on the web, complete with pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/29 "2004-07-14T23:26:25Z")
> [@gatopescado](#): > > I don’t know what it is called but I saw some in Brazil. It looks like a gord, or hollowed out shell/drum, with a stretchy membrane over the open end. The “player” sticks his hand into the membrane and by moving it in and out (it was actually bloody obscene! 😃 Much like a “fisting” scene in a porno I once saw! ) creates this strange sound. Seemed to be pretty common in Samba music. I believe that’s a [cuica](http://www.acslink.aone.net.au/christo/inrec001/inr00018.htm). ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/30 "2004-07-15T02:51:33Z")
We always used to hear Stop The Love You Save by the Jackson 5 and hear the lyric “Oh its a homo” Also ABC, “jesus gonna show you how to get an A” sorry. carry on. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/31 "2004-07-15T03:17:22Z")
I would like, even more, to hear Simon explain the lyrics to “You Can Call Me Al,” “The Obvious Child,” “Baby Driver,” and “Keep the Customer Satisfied.” If he can. As **Coelocanth Soup** pointed out, lyricists sometimes don’t understand their own lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/32 "2004-07-15T03:30:30Z")
Scoot down the road, what’s my number? I wonder how your engines feel. Shine a light. Um…yeah! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/33 "2004-09-05T21:14:48Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I would like, even more, to hear Simon explain the lyrics to “You Can Call Me Al,” “The Obvious Child,” “Baby Driver,” and “Keep the Customer Satisfied.” > > If he can. As **Coelocanth Soup** pointed out, lyricists sometimes don’t understand their own lyrics. Our LP of “Keep the Customer Satisfied” had a rather bad scratch on it. To this day, I can’t hear the refrain without my head supplying the skip: “Keep the Customer Satisisfied, Satis-Satisfied, Satis-Satisfied , Satis-Satisfied (Bump) Satisfied!” ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031/34 "2004-09-06T00:07:06Z")
**ltfire** , we do not permit quoting entire lyrics of copyrighted songs, and I have therefore deleted them. “Fair usage” allows quoting stanza or so, but not the entire song. Far better is to provide a link to an online site that has permission to reproduce the lyrics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/me-and-julio-down-by-the-schoolyard/255031.md?page=1)