What did Mr. and Mrs. Pajama see their son and Julio doing?

Factual Questions
1

OK,
[The mama pajama rolled out a bed
And she ran to the police station
When the papa found out he began to shout

And he started the investigation
It’s against the law
It was against the law
What the mama saw
It was against the law.

The mama look down and spit on the ground
Every time my name gets mentioned
The papa said, “Oy, if I get that boy,
I’m gonna stick him the house of detention.”
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and

From this we learn the following facts
#1: The narrator seems to be the Pajama’s son (why else would Momma spit on the ground every time (Junior Pajama’s) name is mentioned? Poppa wants to stick Junior in a house of detention. Neither Momma or Poppa seem interested in Julio, indicating a closer relationship with Junior Pajama. Leave us assume that Junior Pajama is, in fact, Momma and Poppa’s son.

#2: Whatever Junior Pajama and Julio were doing was bad enough that a) The Pajama parents ran to the police station to turn their own son in, b) the police were concerned enough to start an investigation c)Junior Pajama went to jail for it and it was contrversial enough that a radical priest got involved and d)Junior leaves home, with no destination in mind (“Don’t know where I’m going”, saying goodbye to “Rosie, the queen of Corona”

Therefore my question: What horrible thing did Julio and Junior Pajama do, that Momma and Poppa saw?

Fenris, thinking about this WAY too much.

2

I always assumed that the narrator was the boyfriend of Mr. & Mrs. Pajama’s daughter, and that the narrator and said daughter were caught inflagrante delicto.

3

Ah, now I didtinctly remember an interview with Paul Simon regarding this song. He said the lyrics were just nonsense lyrics that fit the meter, IIRC.

Also, seems like Cecil did a column on this song at some point, but I am too lazy to go check.

4

Maybe my minds in the gutter but I had always thought that she caught him and Julio down by the schoolyard.

Who is “Rosie, queen of Corona”?

5

Corona is a neighborhood in NYC’s borough of Queens. Nice pun, Paulie.

6

Take a look at this old thread discussing the topic.

Me and Julio down by the schoolyard…

7

I guess I’d lean towards Pundit’s explanation in the reference thread, especially with corona in the anatomical sense of “a crownlike part” or “a long cigar with straight sides and blunt ends”.

Looks like Simon’s lyrics have multiple meanings, a classic pun.

This sig not Y2K compliant. Happy 1900.

8

Pundit’s explanation was actually “Reverand Jim’s”–is there any evidence that the Berrigans were involved in anything like this?
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