Do you happen to know of a maiden in need of a sweetheart here's one who is eager to please -anyone know an old English Troubador song with these words?

Answer 1

The Troubadour Song (or The Nightingale) is an obscure madrigal. Most people who know it probably heard it performed by either Burl Ives or the Smother's Brothers

Do you happen to know of a maiden in need,

of a sweetheart, here's one who is anxious to plead,

tis a shame that a handsome young fellow like me

should be left whilst the nightingale sings in the tree.

In the wood and the meadow beneath the pale moon

Every lad and his lass make the most of the June.

All the world's gone a wooing excepting for me.

whilst the nightingale sings to his mate in the tree.

The time it is short there is none I can spare,

the nightingale's song soon will die in the air

DOn't you think dearest maiden, you better agree

to make love whilst the nightingale sings in the tree?