I personally don’t think he had anything in mind because the context of the entire song wouldn’t make sense. It may be personal to him, or he might just want to keep people guessing in order to give an air of mystery to the song. Simon says he didn’t have anything specific in mind - of course he might be lying. 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. They write for the sounds of the words themselves and for the visceral emotion that phrase elicits. Its often the case that lyricists (and poets) write words that have no concrete meaning even to themselves. How can he not know? Didn’t Simon write the song and lyrics? Originally posted by The Devil’s Grandmother 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? Which would explain why the mother and father are so mad, and why a radical priest gets involved. So in other words, I think it’s a homosexual tryst song. So when the singer is saying “Goodbye Rosie, Queen of Corona,” I took it to mean he no longer needs to masturbate, since he’s found a new source of pleasure in Julio. And “corona” in addition to being a neighborhood near Queens is also a term for the tip of the penis. ![]() Back in the day (the70s) the slang used to be “I have a date with Rosie tonight,” meaning I don’t have a date at all, but will be spending the evening with my rosy palm. “Rosie” is also slang for the hand, as used in masturbation. ![]() I always interpreted that as a bit of double entendre. It had (when I was growing up, not sure about Simon) a large Latin population, hence the names “Rosie” (presumably a nickname for “Rosa”) and “Julio”. 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.Ĭorona, by the way, is a neighborhood in Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City, quite close to where Paul Simon (and I, not that that matters for this discussion) grew up.
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