The "explain what this song means, please" thread. All songs welcome.

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@Krokodil

Context. In the early 70s, after the success of “Delta Dawn,” there were a whole bunch of songs about insane, spooky misfit women who dabbled in drugs or the occult or both, like “Leave Me Alone,” “Angie Baby” and “Witchy Woman.” They were monstrously popular and for a while a lot of artists jumped on the bandwagon. “Jackie Blue” is just another. Move along, nothing to see here…

Not to mention “Devil Woman” and “Dark Lady.”

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@lobotomyboy63

I think Mama Pajama went to bail her son out for smoking a J. I assumed the “radical priest” was Rastafarian. But I could be wrong.

For me, the weirdest Paul Simon song was “Mother and Child Reunion,” which, according to Paul Simon, was inspired by a Chinese chicken-and-egg dish of the same name.

From the same page, regarding “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard”:

Q: What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know.
A: I have no idea what it is.