Hi, Desdemona:

Nope, no Swedish songs. I would have liked it though, and have come to love Scandinavian music. My Grandmother came here as a teenager, from Denmark and worked on a level slightly above an indetured slave for the Diamond family... the ones of Diamond Match... wrote a song about my Grandparents with the line, "Grandma worked for diamonds, she started at the top." My Grandfather came over her from Denmark in his early twenties as a tinsmith. They met singing in the church choir in a little Danish Settlement in Wisconsin. For reasons never known to me, my Father strongly rejected anything Danish, so I might as well be sixth generation. What little I know, I've picked up myself. When my wife and I married, we had an African/Danish wedding. The African culture is much easier to learn about than the Danish. I know several people who were married in Denmark, and it sounds like they might as well have been married in Cleveland.
Good dog custom! I've been toying with the idea of writing a children's book from the perspective of a sheep dog who comes into the stable and devotes himself to watching over Jesus as he grows in to a young man. Inspired by a dear friend of mine who passed recently. A Border Collie named Blewyn.

Jerry