I was listening to the radio yesterday and I heard, in rapid succession, Chilliwack’s “In the Arms of Mary” (She took the pains of boyhood and turned them into feel-good; oh how I wish I were lying in the arms of Mary) and Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” (Workin’ on mysteries without any clues; workin’ on our night moves).
It made me wonder if there were enough songs about guys boning for the first time to fill up an entire concept album. The two other possible candidates I could think of were “Maggie May” by Rod Stewart (not clear if it’s the first time, but still) and “Bed of Rose’s” by The Statler Brothers (She took me in and wiped away my childhood).
“December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)” presumably counts, since he realizes he was never gonna be the same and ruefully laments that it ended much too soon.
Harry Chapin had a song called “Babysitter”, in which the narrator happily recounts how, as a 12 year old, he had his first sexual encounter with his 16-year-old babysitter.
Just later on the very same night
I crept to her tent with a flashlight
And my long years of innocence ended
Well, she took me to the woods
Saying here comes something and it feels so good
And just like a dog I was befriended
Come on Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Not sure if it counts, but *House of Fun *by Madness is about buying a condom for first time sex. Lola, by the Kinks. Only not exactly.
Almost the same scenario in “Wendy” by Odds. When I first heard it I had to prevent myself from singing the chorus out loud in public since it very tenderly drops the F-bomb.
Another saucy babysitter is the subject of the Finn Brothers song Angel’s Heap.
The song does not have an especially clear narrative but supposedly is inspired by a trip out in the babysitter’s titular wreck of a car when the older Finn brother (Tim) had relations with ‘Angel’ herself.
Unreliable accounts (from the brothers themselves) suggest Neil was only 6 which would make Tim about 12.