Baby you can drive my car.

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No. Babies can't drive cars.

I remember when I was only around four, my aunt setting me on her lap and letting me hold the wheel as we were driving down a country road. That was over fifty years ago, before car seats or seat belts were a thing.

The Beatles did not invent that convention in song writing.

The use of the word "baby" to mean the adult member of the opposite sex whom the narrator is addressing.

Don't you remember, you told me you loved me baby?
You said you'd be coming back this way again baby
Baby, baby, baby, baby, oh baby

Beep-beep, beep-beep, yeh!

I know. I was jokingly taking the song to be referring to an actual baby. When I was little though I did take the lyric literally and thought "babies are too young to drive cars."

I heard a parody of that song that goes
Lady You Should Wear A Bra Cuz Your Boobs Droop

I saw a picture of myself in a little car. It was pink. Considering my love of cars when I was a kid, it was strange that I didn't get my license until I was 48.

I like songs that say baby and this is the best of all times.

80Kidz - Baby (dub ver.)

That was a Beatles song from 1966.

One of my favorite Christmas songs is Santa Baby. I don't think Santa is a literal baby in that song.

That's a very good song. I like it.

Eartha Kitt sang it about 1952-1953. It's cute. She's sort of a siren/seductive type woman.....

I called my 1st girlfriend Baby & I sometimes use that word in my head when thinking about my celeb crush. I NEVER thought/think of then as babies. They are both abit younger than me but the celeb is alot more independent, mature, responsible, independent, & smarter than me so I don't even really think of her as being younger than me.

Only on an autistic site would folks worry about the meaning of the word "baby" in pop songs.

Although there is one interesting exception. I do know of one pop song that confuses even NTs. That was one of the hits by Ace of Base in the Nineties. The one in which one of the female leads sings "all that she wants is another baby". I would play it as a mobile deejay at parties when it was a current top 40 song, and women at events would complain that "none of us here wants 'another baby'". So I stopped playing it. I took it to mean that the girl in the song was fed up with her BF and wanted another that kinda "baby". But some folks seemed to take it literally - to mean getting knocked up, and "having" ( ie delivering) another bambino (actual infant). I dunno. Whatever.

I think my interpretation was right, but something about the Swedish group's klutzy grasp of English made the lyrics ambiguous to some native English speakers.