I just thought of another!
Sweet Talkin’ Candy Man by the Carrie Nations (or whatever studio group actually did the music for the “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” soundtrack.)
Cher-Gypsies, Tramps And Thieves.
With bonus pregnancy.
Seventeen by Winger
Let’s Go by the Cars
How about Magic Man by Heart? Doesn’t specify ages, though it pretty well suggests it’s from the POV of someone on the young side.
Even more so, “Brown Shoes Don’t Make It” off the Mothers’ Absolutely Freeee album.
Stewart’s “Tonight’s the Night,” addressed to his “virgin child,” certainly fits the category, though.
Are you inferring she is underage just from the phrase “Rosie child”? If so, I think you are reading far too much into that. Its is a standard pop song (and blues, and poetry come to that) trope to refer to a female object of affection as if she were young. There is no reason to take it literally, especially as in this song he also refers to her several times as a “store-bought woman”.
Do you think every pop song where a female object of affection or desire (and sometimes a male one) is referred to as “baby” or “babe” is about extreme pedophilia?
Likewise when the male in a relationship (in a blues, usually) is referred to as “Daddy”, it does not usually mean that the song is about intergenerational incest.
Really, there are plenty enough songs (themselves ranging from the entirely innocent to the very creepy) about underage girls that there is no need to just make stuff up like this.
ETA: Though I see from the post above this, and the one two above that, that you are far from the only one doing it. How about we have a thread about songs that might just possibly be about underage relationships? That could include just about every song ever. :rolleyes:
Chuck Berry’s Marie in “Memphis” is only six years old! :eek:
Ha, I remember the first time I heard that, or at least listened properly, I was a bit :eek:. Then I listened really properly! I still wonder whether that was an intentional reference to the sort of songs being discussed here, or if it just looks that way in hindsight.
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard by Paul Simon.
Here is my thought process:
He “runs with a dangerous crowd.” Her mom told her he would “give her a reputation.” Also, she “got a nice white dress and a party on your Confirmation.”
All three are examples of teenage years. Adults don’t have mom’s worrying about reputation. They don’t wear nice white dresses on their Confirmation (Confirmation happens in your teen years.)
It is a story about 2 teenagers. He is telling her she needs to start having sex early.
The musical Evita has “Eva Beware of the City,” where singer Agustín Magaldi tells the 15 year old Eva Duarte she shouldn’t accompany him to Buenos Aires:
Eva, beward your ambition, it’s hungry and cold
Can’t be controlled, will run wild.
This in a man is a danger enough,
But you are a woman, not even a woman, not very much more than a child.
And whatever you say, I’ll not steal you away.
Later, Eva tosses out Juan Peron’s 15 year old mistress in “Hello and Goodbye”:
Hello and goodbye, I’ve just unemployed you.
You can go back to school.
You had a good run. I’m sure he enjoyed you.
From the Norwegian mockumentary “Get Ready to be Boyzvoiced” (about a failing boy band whose career is revived when they are sponsored by a fish stick company), I give you the classic song “Twelve Year Old Woman”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UZ1oPt2FVk
The lyrics are in English:
"I’ve spent the best days of my life with you
Days of love, days of laughter, but now I feel blue
A tear is rolling down from my eye
Now I know that our love was based on a lie
How could you be so mean?
Told me you were sixteen
I’ll never stop blaming myself
For not seeing that you only were twelve…
Young Girl by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. The singer apparently learns her (unspecified) age some time after the relationship begins and isn’t completely turned off.
Get out of here before I have the time/To change my mind/'Cause I’m afraid we’ll go too far.
What makes you think that? The lyrics don’t make clear what the protagonist and Julio were up to, just something illegal. Paul Simon himself said he wasn’t sure, just that he hadn’t bothered to think about it. In fact he recently said that Me and Julio was just a bit of “inscrutable doggerel.”
Foreigner - Seventeen, from the album Head Games which has cover art of an underage girl in a bathroom
*Girl, you know you put on quite a show
You’re gonna be a star
When you grow older, girl
You’ll remember I told you, girl
Seventeen, you’re just seventeen
*
Aerosmith’s Ragdoll and Walk This Way have already been mentioned but I believe there are others such as Uncle Salty.
*Uncle Salty told me stories of a lonely
baby with a lonely kind of life to lead
my mammy was lusted, Daddy he was busted
they left her to be trusted till the orphan bleeds
but when she cried at night, no one came
and when she cried at night, went insane
Uncle Salty told me when she was just a baby
that she’d get by and maybe someday she’d see
but soon she found her mother’s love for all the others
the pushers and the shovers was the life to lead*
Steely Dan - Everyone’s Gone To The Movies
*Kids if you want some fun
Mr. Lapage is your man
He’s always laughing, having fun
Showing his films in the den
Come on, come on
Soon you will be eighteen
I think you know what I mean
Don’t tell your mama
Your daddy or mama
They’ll never know where you been
Everyone’s gone to the movies
Now we’re alone at last*
Just remembered one, though it’s an album cut from a never-hit-big-in-America (despite being American) band. Fast Taker from Manowar’s 1982 debut album:
Only Sixteen A Woman Not A Girl
Old Enough For A Trip Around The World
Pick You Up On Friday When Your Daddy Goes To Sleep
Bring You Back On Sunday When He’s Watching Billy Grahm On TV
Oh Yeah He Won’t See Me
(What’s with these lyric sites capitalizing every word?)
You definitely have to mention Bow Wow Wow in a thread about underage girls.
Several times on his podcast Adam Carolla has made fun of songs like this, especially Young Girl by Gary Puckett.
Adam on creepy rock love songs: The Adam Carolla Show - Adam on creepy rock love songs - YouTube