CHANTICLEER: L'Amour de Moy - traditional French, arr. Alice Parker/Robe...

         There are many versions of this lovely-lovely song on YouTube, some evidently scribbled down in tablature on the back of old envelopes to conform to the character of wheezily folksy "Traditional French" (whatever the hell that would be).  This sounds as if it could have been written by, say, Guillaume de Machaut, with its clear, heart-wrenching, internal rhymes and subtle melismas--and it's carefully and beautifully sung, so that all you notice when you hear it is its exquisite poetry, which is far too perfect--too simple, too limpid, too polished--to have sprung from some wild-ass rustic "tradition."  I have listened to it three times already, and I'm ready to hear it again.  This really is the food of love.