# Songs about "statutory rape" or underage love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182 "2005-12-12T00:52:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/1 "2005-12-12T00:52:25Z")
Because maybe “pedophile” is too strong a word. The organizational part of my mind does things like this constantly. I’ll hear a song, and immediately try to think of songs with similar themes. As luck would have it, today I heard _My Sharona_. So I’m trying to compile a list of songs that broach the subject. So far, I’ve thought of: “My Sharona” by The Knack “Aqualung” by Jethro Tull “Young Girl” by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police “Seventeen” by Winger “Wait for You” by Bonham I’m sure there are more that I’m just not thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/2 "2005-12-12T01:01:38Z")
“Stray Cat Blues”, Rolling Stones. She’s 15 on the studio recording, only 13 on the live one. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/3 "2005-12-12T01:02:11Z")
Little Girls - Oingo Boingo ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/4 "2005-12-12T01:04:46Z")
“Edge of Seventeen” - Stevie Nicks “Into the Night” - Benny Mardones ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/5 "2005-12-12T01:06:39Z")
**Sweet Sixteen** by Iggy Pop. In fact there seem to be a lot of “Sixteen” songs, from Neil Sedaka to Billy Idol. But Iggy’s the only one I like so I’m just going to mention him 🙂 . Of course, some of these may or may not be “underage love”. In some places 16 is legal. And in some cases the singer is _supposed_ to be the same age. On the other hand there’s “Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon” which definatly says she’s (too) young and he’s old. Or if you want to head right into pedophila hell, “Jordan, Minnasotta” by Big Black and “Stupid Child” by the Swans. ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Powell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Billy\_Powell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Powell)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/6 "2005-12-12T01:10:27Z")
“Little Queenie” +1 for “Stray Cat Blues” ---
**Author:** ![ms.deanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@ms.deanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ms.deanna)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/7 "2005-12-12T01:13:49Z")
> [@Billy Powell](#): > > “Little Queenie” > > +1 for “Stray Cat Blues” ``` Somewhere in that song"little queenie' don't it say "too damn cute to be a minute over 13? or was it 17?" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Powell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Billy\_Powell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Powell)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/8 "2005-12-12T01:23:49Z")
I think it was 17 – on the Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis versions, at least. Which puts it firmly in the “sweet sixteen” group of songs. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/9 "2005-12-12T01:27:44Z")
“Fourteen,” by the Vandals. They get points for the entire song being about how the singer _can’t_ do anything yet, because she’s too young. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/10 "2005-12-12T01:32:24Z")
“Good Morning Little Schoolgirl,” by Sonny Boy Williamson’s been covered by Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead and Jonny Lang. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/11 "2005-12-12T01:37:50Z")
There’s the 12 yr old hooker in Sublime’s _The Wrong Way_. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/12 "2005-12-12T01:58:34Z")
_Christine Sixteen_ - **KISS**. I still shudder when I hear that talking section in the middle - “When I saw you coming out of school that day, I knew… I’ve got to have you!” The there’s the lyric which describes Christine as “young and clean”. It doesn’t get worse than that, surely. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/13 "2005-12-12T02:19:51Z")
From the Tiger Lillies: **Bad Rapist** Oingo Boingo’s that was mentioned above The Yellow Monkey’s **Mishite Mishite** (No actual ages mentioned, but probably) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/14 "2005-12-12T02:21:38Z")
Mexicali Blues by the Grateful Dead (well, just a reference) > [@](#): > > so instead I’ve got a bottle > and a girl who’s just 14 > and a damn good case of the Mexicali blues. ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/15 "2005-12-12T02:22:54Z")
Showing my age here, but “Let’s Break The Law”, by Zodiac Mindwarp. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Logically\_Loquacious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Logically\_Loquacious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logically_Loquacious)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/16 "2005-12-12T02:23:22Z")
Two songs came to mind for me: “Only Sixteen” by Dr. Hook “Tonight’s the Night” by Rod Stewart - although some may disagree with me on this one. Technically there isn’t an age ascribed to the woman, but this stanza certainly implies an underage lover: “Don’t say a word my virgin child Just let your inhibitions run wild The secret is about to unfold Upstairs before the night’s too old” ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/17 "2005-12-12T02:38:12Z")
I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen At least that’s the impression I always got. ---
**Author:** ![ninevah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@ninevah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ninevah)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/18 "2005-12-12T02:38:28Z")
I’ve always felt Gilbert O’Sullivan’s [Clair](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/gilbert_osullivan/clair.html) was about that… just a tad pedophilic. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/19 "2005-12-12T02:43:17Z")
For the other side of the coin… “I Love Rock and Roll” by **Joan Jett** : _I saw him dancing there by the record machine I knew he must have been about 17_ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/20 "2005-12-12T02:45:30Z")
**Fiddle About** by the Who from _Tommy_. A very oldie: **Down by the Old Mill Stream** (“You were sixteen, my village queen”), though the love was supposed to be chaste. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182.md?page=2)