2. "Cousin Jane" by the Troggs -- Hard to say if the man in the lyrics is significantly older than his young cousin Jane, but the delicate vocal in a minor key hints that he's up to no good and feeling guilty about it, "tiptoeing across the landing" to kiss her. She's underaged no doubt, and to top it off she's his cousin. From the band that put "Wild Thing" on the charts, "Cousin Jane" was merely the flip side of a late 60s single, discreetly hidden away under the bed.

3. "Cypress Avenue" by Van Morrison -- The singer's heart is beating faster as he sits in a car and anxiously waits for his love, who turns out to be a schoolgirl of 14. He's desperate, he's tortured, he's in love and there's nothing he can do about it except mumble and wail. In the words of Lester Bangs, "By the end of the song he has entered a kind of hallucinatory ecstasy; the music aches and yearns as it rolls on out. This is one supreme pain, that of being imprisoned a spectator."

4. "Don't Stand so Close to Me" by the Police -- A twist in the tale, as this time it is the man, a teacher, trying to resist the advances of the girl, his teenage student. She's half his age, and for sure he's never seen 36. He struggles with his desires -- does he give in? "It's no use, he sees her/he starts to shake and cough/just like the old man in that book by Nabokov." Oh he's guilty all right. [Ed.: And so is Sting for "teaching" millions of listeners to mispronounce "Nabokov."]

5. "Cousin Dupree" by Steely Dan -- Another cousin, another attempt at an illicit affair. The man feels no guilt here, he knows what he wants and it's his young cousin. "What's so strange about a down-home family romance?" he sings. But she turns him away, citing more than just his age (his mind, his soul) as a turn off. One of several Steely Dan songs that could have qualified for the list, though not "Hey Nineteen" – in that one she's legal.