Hello, German. Last year I passed that rock, and die Lorelei was played over the PA, sung by a male-voice choir, in German.

I would much rather have learned about the geological history of the narrow place, to learn what mountain-building caused it, and what rare rocks might be there, than to here a silly tale of how a woman (naturally, a woman!) is at fault for somebody's bad luck.

But to get back to the original song, Wolfgang Hell put a link upthread to two MIDI's at the ingeb site. The first MIDI doesn't sound like much to me, but I liked the second. It has three parts, something we don't often find. I think it would make a good piece for a little band of people who can read music.

I agree that the words are almost unbearably sentimental.