Toadfrog,

Another thing that surprises me a bit about Mudcat is that almost no one seems to know any foreign languages (except Irish, which is decidedly the in thing.

Jie schriewe daut niemaun kaun irjent spoake auls Enjlisch vestone. Daut's faulsch. Ekj kaun kleen beet Nädasasisch, Dietsch, un Spaunisch vestone. Ekj schriewe auf Enjlisch so jedemaun kaun mie vestone, nich woa?

Translation:
You write than no one can speak any language but English. That's incorrect. I can understand a little Nether Saxon, German, and Spanish. I write in English so everyone can understand me, right?.

As far a German folksong goes, the only one I ever heard of was Du, Du Liegst Mir im Herzen, unless you count German language hymns as a type of folksong.
Jim