I have two minds about about singing in a dialect not my own. I will do so if I am burlesquing something but I will Americanise to great extent lyrics that would mean nothing to my audience as long as the song doesn't suffer.

I listened once to an evening of songs in the Welsh language. Beautiful melodies, beautifully sung by a guy who didn't understand a word of the language he was singing. He'd explain the basics of the song as if he knew the stories but he only was memorizing the liner notes on the record. That was to me the most pretentious thing I ever heard.

Don