Molly! Do You Love Me? (1850)

“Molly! Do You Love Me?” requires no interpretation. It is the straightforward plea of a young man who is desperate to know if Molly, the girl he loves, loves him back. In response to the song , Neumeier has created a charming pas de deux for a rather awkward young man who is yondering for the first time into the great unknown of love. The choreography is both humorous and touching.

Molly do you love me?
Can the morning beam
Love a lowly flowret
Living in its gleam?
Let one gentle whisper
All my doubts destroy
Let my dreamy rapture
Turn to waking joy.

Molly do you love me?
Tell me, tell me true!
Molly do you love me,
Love as I love you? 

Tell me, by those ringlets,
By those eyes of blue,
Molly! do you love me,
Love as I love you?
Can that voice's music
Flow from heartless glee?
Must I read no feeling
In that melody?

Molly do you love me?
Tell me, tell me true!
Molly do you love me,
Love as I love you?
Ah! my heart has yielded
To those smiles that play
With the merry dimples
All the live-long day.
Though the tender blossoms
Need the summer light,
Let our hearts, united,
Brave affliction's blight.

Molly do you love me?
Tell me, tell me true!
Molly do you love me,
Love as I love you?