My wife, Ferrara, has a good ear for language and *can* manage a Scots song, or German song... without doing them an injustice. I am not nearly as good, so I limit my attempts to using the minimum necessary words to tell the story, and I don't even attempt ones like LJC posted!!

I can sing "The Twa Corbies"...but she can sing "The 51st Highlander's Farewell to Sicily"