Wilfried,

Thanks for your post. I would like to get hold of a recording by Zupfgeigenhansel, since they come so highly recommended.

Perhaps you can answer another idle question of mine. Does German folk music have a tradition of the "night visiting song". This is the genre of song which goes like this:

Boy, knocking on girl's window: Let me in. I'm freezing.

Girl: No, I can't. My parents will hear.

Boy: Oh, come on. They won't hear anything.

Girl: OK

Following which, they either roll in each other's arms the whole night long, or else the mother does hear and gives the daughter a thrashing, while the boy beats a retreat. A singer I heard at a festival recently referred to these, as a joke, as "fenster lieder". It occurs to me that there might be real fenster lieder in German.

Edmund