# 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:** 3
**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, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/41 "2005-12-12T11:33:56Z")
“The Ocean”, Led Zeppelin. “Three years old”! Tongue in cheek, of course. But it counts, no? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/42 "2005-12-12T11:45:09Z")
41 posts and no mention of _Rock the Cradle of Love_ by Billy Idol? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/43 "2005-12-12T12:06:45Z")
Don’t know if it was underage but surely the geniuses _Zager and Evans_ deserve a mention for their followup to **In The Year 2525** , the heartbreaking **Mr Turnkey** : \*Mr Turnkey, it’s 10 pm in Wichita Falls August 16, 1969 and I’m in some bar Mr Turnkey, I need a woman and I ain’t getting far I never was the kind of man a woman looked for. But Mr Turnkey, she looked at me with flirting eyes Mr Turnkey, she was lovelier than oil lights Mr Turnkey, she led me on, she led me on, She knew she wasn’t going to let love her. Mr Turnkey, there’s been a rape in Wichita Falls Mr Turnkey, I’m sitting here crying in my coveralls … … Mr Turnkey, you ain’t never seen nothing like this before Mr Turnkey, I nailed my wrist to your wall, I’m going home … … Mr Turnkey, I’m crying, hanging here dying Tell her I’m sorry\* ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/44 "2005-12-12T12:18:59Z")
Again, no age mentioned, but [Je Suis Un Rock Star](http://www.rollinstoned.com/s45.htm) by George Harrison includes the lines: _We could go on the hovercraft accross the water. They’ll think I’m your dad and you’re my daughter._ ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/45 "2005-12-12T12:34:17Z")
Well, considering [Gary Glitter](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4451992.stm)’s current problems, I guess this would count: 😃 _Do you wanna touch? - Yeah! Do you wanna touch? - Yeah! Do you wanna touch me there? Yeah! Do you wanna touch? - Yeah! Do you wanna touch? - Yeah! Do you wanna touch me there? Where? There! Yeah! Oh!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/46 "2005-12-12T12:36:41Z")
All this and not a mention of a song by Jill Sobule called ‘Mary Kay’ about Mary Kay LeTourneau? ---
**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, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/47 "2005-12-12T13:35:42Z")
> [@don't ask](#): > > Don’t know if it was underage but surely the geniuses _Zager and Evans_ deserve a mention for their followup to **In The Year 2525** , the heartbreaking **Mr Turnkey** : You know, I’m surprised these guys never got big. I mean, with such fine, uplifting, soul-renewing songs like these. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/48 "2005-12-12T13:44:01Z")
Does “Good Night Irene” count? I know there are several versions of the song, but in at least one of them the singer is warned away by Irene’s mother because Irene is much too young. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/49 "2005-12-12T14:16:02Z")
Oh, and in opposition to all this paedo-lust, there’s Abba’s song _Does Your Mother Know_ where the guy is actually repelling an underage girl (though clearly he’s having a hard time of it): \*You’re so hot, teasing me So you’re blue but I can’t take a chance on a chick like you That’s something I couldn’t do There’s that look in your eyes I can read in your face that your feelings are driving you wild Ah, but girl you’re only a child Well I can dance with you honey If you think it’s funny Does your mother know that you’re out? And I can chat with you baby Flirt a little maybe Does your mother know that you’re out?\* ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/50 "2005-12-12T14:24:10Z")
“Little Girl (Does Your Momma Know)” by the band that would become Creedence Clearwater Revival. I think they released this under the name The Golliwogs. No ages mentioned, but the narrator is clearly stuggling with being much older than the object of his affection. _Little girl, does Your Momma Know You’re out tonight? And if she did, would she Die of fright Just to know you’re out with me?_ And then, later _I’m so much older than you You don’t know what I’m going through_ –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/51 "2005-12-12T14:27:07Z")
One note – The Golliwogs’ “Little Girl” isn’t all that creepy when you realize that John Fogerty was only 19 when he wrote it. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/52 "2005-12-12T14:27:42Z")
One that perhaps only 30 people in Chicago know about: _Lolita_, by [Butterfat Mastermind](http://www.butterfatmastermind.com/music.htm). I love the song, but it’s made slightly creepier buy the fact that I know the woman it was written about. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/53 "2005-12-12T14:39:38Z")
Child of the 80s that I am, might I put in a nomination for _Sexy + Seventeen_ by the Stray Cats? ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/54 "2005-12-12T15:37:28Z")
Amelia by the Mission (UK) is about incest. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/55 "2005-12-12T15:40:00Z")
No specific age is mentioned in the lyrics, but I am pretty sure Heart’s “Magic Man” fits the OP: _Summer lover passed to fall/ Tried to realize it all Mama says she’s worried/ Growing up in a hurry (yeah) Come on home, girl/ mama cried on the phone Too soon to lose my baby/ and my girl should be at home_ ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/56 "2005-12-12T16:56:00Z")
Most of mine have been taken already, but there’s also: Deisel Queens - Man Boy Love I also always got the feeling Babylon Sister by Steely Dan had an underage angle to it aside from the interracial angle. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/57 "2005-12-12T17:07:41Z")
Second page and no mention of Motorhead’s Jailbait (and I just can’t wait)? You guys are slipping. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/58 "2005-12-12T17:58:40Z")
> [@BurnMeUp](#): > > I also always got the feeling Babylon Sister by Steely Dan had an underage angle to it aside from the interracial angle. “So Fine So Young (Tell me I’m the only one)” yeah some definite implications there, what about the Beatles “Well she was just seventeen, and you know what I mean” ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/59 "2005-12-12T18:12:19Z")
> [@Critical1](#): > > what about the Beatles > “Well she was just seventeen, > and you know what I mean” Well, I think Paul McCartney was all of 18 or 19 when he wrote that song. ---
**Author:** ![J.Gelert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/53a042/32.png) [@J.Gelert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J.Gelert)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182/60 "2005-12-12T18:33:02Z")
Also, “Slow Night So Long” by Kings of Leon: > [@](#): > > Slow night so long, she’s frenching out the flavor > She’s 17 but I done went and plumb forgot it… Though, as mentioned earlier, 17 is legal in some jurisdictions…seems to imply that it’s not legal in this locale. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-statutory-rape-or-underage-love/335182.md?page=4)