Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick, Do you love me? (από την ταινία «Ο βιολιστής στη στέγη»)

Do you love me?

Μουσική: Jerry Bock
Στίχοι: Sheldon Harnick
Τραγούδι: Chaim Topol & Norma Crane
Ταινία: Fiddler on the roof | Ο βιολιστής στη στέγη (1971) του Norman Jewison

Tevye: Love… Golde, do you love me?
Golde: Do I what?
Tevye: Do you love me?

Golde: Do I love you?
With our daughters getting married and this trouble in the town,
you’re upset. You want out. Go inside. Go lie down.
Maybe it’s indigestion.

Tevye: Golde, I’m asking you a question. Do you love me?
Golde: You’re a fool!
Tevye: I know. But do you love me?

Golde: Do I love you?
For twenty-five years, I’ve washed your clothes,
Cooked your meals, cleaned your house,
Given you children, milked the cow.
After twenty-five years, why talk about love right now?

Tevye: The first time I met you was on our wedding day. I was scared.
Golde: I was shy.
Tevye: I was nervous.
Golde: So was I.

Tevye: But my father and my mother said we’d learn to love each other.
And now I’m asking, Golde…
Do you love me?
Golde: I’m your wife!
Tevye: I know. But do you love me?

Golde: Do I love him?
For twenty-five years, I’ve lived with him,
Fought with him, starved with him.
For twenty-five years, my bed is his.
If that’s not love, what is?

Tevye: Then you love me?
Golde: I suppose I do.
Tevye: And I suppose I love you, too.
Together: It doesn’t change a thing, but even so,
After twenty-five years, it’s nice to know