Actually Plattdeutsch is still spoken today by a lot of people in Nothern Germany. It is in deed very similar to Dutch, but that doesn´t mean that songs in Plattdeutsch are from old times before these languages seperated. There´s a lot of modern Plattdeutsch songs too. Interesting that while it´s considered one German dialect, there exist dozends of different Plattdeutsch-dialects... Graeme, I hope I´ll get along with just one tape (I have a nice record of songs in Plattdeutsch by a band called Liederjan)...

Daniel