Von Trapp family pulls out of Freedom 250 concert

[Igel]

16. Yeah, but that was a song written in the US for a musical in 1959.

Not European folk-anything.

Had the German charge d'affaires at a local "German heritage festival" concert/performance "thing" at my high school years ago and no fewer than 3 school or community groups performed that for him. I was making another attempt at learning German so looked up what the 'original' words where when I saw it on the program. And just thought, "Uh-uh."

The poor guy took the faux Austrian 'nationalist' folk song that would only serve to remind him that Germany was Nazi before he was born in stride and was gracious about it.

(Oh. This area of SE-ish TX was settled by a ton of Germans in the 1880s and 1890s, and a bit west was settled by Moravians and a fair number of "Wends," as the locals call their answers; the term of art these days for the language and ethnicity is "Sorbian" and "Sorb".)