# Love Me Do? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393 "2003-08-24T21:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/1 "2003-08-24T21:43:43Z")
What does that mean? At first I thought it was Love Me “Due” as in give me my due in your heart or something like that, but it is “Do.” Little help? ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/2 "2003-08-24T21:58:47Z")
Love me, do. You know I love you. IOW, Do please go ahead and love me because I love you. Methinks you’re thinking waayy too hard about it. I am morally opposed to emoticons of any type or I would insert a happy smiley here ---
**Author:** ![stigoftdump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@stigoftdump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stigoftdump)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/3 "2003-08-25T11:04:06Z")
Paul McCartney says: > [@](#): > > “You get to the bit where you think, if we’re going to write great philosophy it isn’t worth it. “Love Me Do” was our greatest philosophical song. “Love me do/you know I love you/I’ll always be true/So love me do/Please love me, do.” For it to be simple, and true, means that it’s incredibly simple.” ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/4 "2003-08-25T16:53:39Z")
It’s all about the Beatles’ famously shaggy haircuts. Using “me” for “my” is a well-established Liverpudlianism (that’s Liverpool slang, ya know). And “do” has been a shortened version of “hairdo” since at least the 18th century. So. “Love me do” = “Love my haircut” = “Don’t reject us for superficial reasons like our ‘crazy’ hair – give us a closer listen and you’ll find that we’re really quite a good band.” It’s a simple, heartrending plea for acceptance – nay, for an embrace – and as Beatlemania demonstrated, it was wildly successful. Some people write it off as a silly love song, but you’ve always got to look to the next level with those clever Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/5 "2003-08-25T17:25:06Z")
I dunno, I always thought that their hair made them look like girls. Did they ever sell any albums? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/6 "2003-08-25T18:54:18Z")
They had that one hit, “I’m a Believer” that was covered by Smashmouth for the Shrek soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/7 "2003-08-25T20:53:42Z")
But does anyone have any idea what “Love You To” means? Love you to what? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/8 "2003-08-25T21:05:03Z")
**interrobang** : > [@](#): > > It’s all about the Beatles’ famously shaggy haircuts. Using “me” for “my” is a well-established Liverpudlianism (that’s Liverpool slang, ya know). And “do” has been a shortened version of “hairdo” since at least the 18th century. You are so going to hell for that one! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/9 "2003-08-25T22:37:25Z")
“Love you Do” requires more analysis than “A Whiter shade of Pale” interrobang–interesting and funny analysis. Others, don’t easily dismiss it. A sign of a good poem is that it can be interpreted as such in different ways 40 years later. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do/197393/10 "2003-08-25T22:42:29Z")
Bizarre or what…I just finished listening to this song right before I opened the thread. Yes, I felt I had to share.