But of course, no native speaker of English understood it that way. We all thought the song was taking this really surprising angle: “All that she wants is to g

But of course, no native speaker of English understood it that way. We all thought the song was taking this really surprising angle: “All that she wants is to get pregnant. I know this is a little off-topic from the point of the article, but I think this is a very sophisticated take on the song! In my less sophisticated world, people in my community who got pregnant were never "gone tomorrow." There was no unexpected "goodbye." If the result was not marriage, there was always child support, interference with subsequent relationships, various threats of violence both ways, and/or a perpetual public argument about the sufficiency of the father's involvement. Based on what I saw around me, the "she's trying to get pregnant and then disappear" interpretation of the song just didn't make any sense, so I had a good immature teenage snicker over it but never doubted that "baby" meant "lover," never thought it was intended as a double-entendre, and never thought that the accidental double-entendre gave the song any extra depth. This is the first I've heard that people actually took it to be the intended meaning of the song! (Though with broader experience now I can see it's a viable interpretation.)