Maybe I’m hearing it wrong, but if the chorus says “young hearts,” why is the song called Young Turks? He doesn’t even call them that once.
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A counterexample - “American Child” by Phil Vassar:
“Seven pounds three ounces, she’s got my nose
And she’s into my heart, as deep as it goes
With a promise that’s more than just someone’s last name
Anyone’s equal, in late August came
An American child…”
(I always like that the baby was such a good size - big enough to be healthy but not too big.)
Heh. I, at a petite 8lbs 3oz, was over two pounds lighter than my younger brother. But even 10lbs 6oz was small compared to our grandfather who was 12lbs. I too tend to assume that a sub-7lb baby is sickly or early.
I suspect that he was worried that if he had used the chorus, “young hearts run free tonight,” as a title, then people would think he was covering Candi Staton’s disco hit from '76.
The song’s original bridge detailed Billy and Patti’s encounter with a doctor engaging in groundbreaking but unethical experiments in eugenics. But “in vitro fertilization” just didn’t scan well, so Stewart dropped it.
See, I took it as appealing to the grandparents’ values, since that’s who the guy is talking to. It’s a juxtaposition of them going wild vs. doing the old style “proper” thing but still having the grandfather a big, strapping grandson.
Maybe it was just a baby boy. 50% chance, that.