Country music is meant to be evocative and accessible, with a powerful story to drive the song. On all levels, Harry C.S. Wingfield‘s “The Men’s Room” fits the bill.

The song tells the classic tale of a gay man who hears the call of the wild while out shopping, heads to the restroom, and catches the attention of a group of men–including, unfortunately, Johnny Five-O.

He finds a way to make this experience that’s been all too real for so many men into a rollicking, lighthearted time full of both innuendo and tongue-in-cheek explicitness.

Wingfield, a multi-hyphenate whose credits include playwright, health worker, and memoirist, has detailed that the song was indeed based on a true event.

On his YouTube channel, he writes, “I wrote this song in the early 1980s to cheer up a friend who had been entrapped in the men’s room in the Maison Blanche department store on Canal Street in New Orleans. I recorded it a few years later in Los Angeles with the band Portland Rose, updating the locale from New Orleans to the LA suburbs.”

Thankfully, in this narrative, the protagonist gets off scot-free (litigiously and otherwise).

Venture into the men’s room with Harry here:

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