Patricia O'Connor wrote:
> Well I'll be! For the last 25 years I thought it was "fey", meaning
> eccentric, crazy or a visionary, and it seems to fit. But it is printed as
> "fay", do you think it could be a typo?
> I like the meaning of short for "ofay".
That's what I always thought she meant, too, and I would like to like the idea
of Joni using fay as short for ofay because that would mean seeing something
in a new way. To my mind, though, it doesn't fit with Joni's lack of concern
about skin color, and why bother describing herself as white? Seems too
obvious to me.
[a few seconds pass :-)] Now, looking again at the entire line "I'm rich and
I'm fay, And I'm not familiar with what you played"... maybe she IS saying
she's a rich white woman and she's talking again about the class and racial
differences between her and Furry, and because of those differences she's not
familiar with Furry's music, no matter how well known and respected he'd been
during his hey day.
Multiple meanings again! Way to go Joni!! At the very least you continue to
cause some interesting confusion here.
Debra Shea
NP: Carmel, "I'm Not Afraid of You"
