Manfred:
The Larch Tree is the song I mentioned (see above)

Yes, of course it is - how stupid of me not to have made the connection.
Excuse alert! - my schoolgirl German isn't up to much.

I know that it's possible to take the abc for a tune and convert it into standard notation with, for example, the concertina.net 'thingummybob' but does anyone know how you can do the reverse i.e. take a tune in standard notation and produce the abc for it? If so, I could post the actual tune for this folk song. I know that I should be able just to look at the tune and write out the abc but I can't!!

Alternatively, if someone is willing to write out the abc from seeing the dots I could scan the music and email it to them if they PM me with their email address.

Marilyn