Never have heard the song about Scollay Square but I'll toss in a little backround. Scollay Square was the downtown (seeder? but not to seedy) entertainment center of Boston with it's famous burlesque houses as opposed to the more refined Theater District at the other end of downtown. During the late 50's & early 60's Boston was revamped. Scollay Square was cut out with a scalpel & replace with the newer sterile Goverment Center. At the same time, a few blocks towards the river, the whole of the West End neighborhood was ripped out in such a way the all residents were displaced in favor of high rent highrisers & Boston's West End disappeared & is no more. When goverment center went up & the area was cleansed & it shifted the entertainment back to the Theater District but what was once not to seedy turned into what became the Combat Zone. A place of comfort for those needing release while serving in the Armed Forces & later becoming the adult entertainment capital for the eastern part of the state. It has only in the past decade or so that the area's gone back to it's older & more pleasent self. Sorry if it's not relative, Barry