Stephen Foster's Molly! Do You Love Me? might be a source of inspiration. The sheet music is at the Levy site:

Title: Molly! Do You Love Me? Song.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Written & Composed for the Piano Forte by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster.
Publication: Baltimore: F.D. Benteen, 1850.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Molly do you love me? Can the morning beam love a lowly flowret
First Line of Chorus: Molly! do you love me? Tell me, tell me true
Plate Number: 1706
Subject: Courtship & love
Call No.: Box: 067 Item: 131