Warning. This is a long read. The Berlin edition.
As much I would like to speak other languages …
The Danish lyrics to the songs you provided haven't gotten me anywhere, little mermaid, I'm afraid. When I listened to 'Jeg ville eje millioner hvis tårer var guld' there was text missing, which was too confusing for me, with 'Hvor er alle drømmene du drømte?' I was too impatient, but I understand the title, and 'Hvem har du kysset i din gadedør lille Ann Mari?' doesn't translate very well, so giving up on that.
I found that I don't understand all pronunciations of the Danish vowels, I feel like I'm at the edge of a wood and don't know where to enter. It's also that I have a lot of other work to do (and also want to listen to the radio programs that I want to listen to and they take a lot of my time), so I hardly have time to listen to other songs. I'm letting you down. Sigh.
Which is why I have so much (pop)music in my head — and it is a joy forever.

Hemelbed
"Ik zou graag in een hemelbed willen liggen."
”Ich will gern?/möchte? in ein Himmelbett liegen”
Ich möchte gern in ein Himmelbett liegen.

Correct, the Dutch sequence is almost exactly the same as German. There are few situations where the two languages differ.Really?
Anyway, when verbs are involved, German needs somewhat more attention than Dutch.
With singular verbs Dutch and German sentences have the same order:
- Ich | kenne | ihn | nicht. Ik kem hem niet.
- Heute Abend | gehen | sie | ins Konzert Vanavond gaan ze naar het concert.
- Wann | kommst | du | noch mal | zu Besuch? Wanneer kom je weer op bezoek?
Inversion happens in questions:
- Kennst | du | ihn? Ken je hem?
- Gehst | du | ins Konzert? Ga je naar het concert?
With compound verbs it becomes interesting: the first part of the compound verb is put upfront as finite verb and the second part ends the sentence; it looks as if the compound verb encloses the rest of the sentence:
- Ich | gehe | sehr gerne mit meinen Freunden | aus Ik ga heel graag met mijn vrienden uit.
- Ich | habe | ihn heute Morgen noch im Bus | gesehen Ik heb hem vanmorgen nog in de bus gezien.
- Ich | kann | morgen Abend nicht mit dir ins Kino | gehen Ik kan morgenavond niet met je naar de bioscoop (mee)gaan.
- Wann | wirst | du deine Arbeit endlich fertig | haben? Wanneer zal je je werk eindelijk klaar hebben?
In Dutch it is possible to vary a little bit with the sequence, e.g.:
- Ik ga heel graag met mijn vrienden uit. -or-
- Ik ga heel graag uit met mijn vrienden.
- Ik heb hem vanmorgen nog in de bus gezien. -or-
- Ik heb hem vanmorgen nog gezien in de bus.
- Ik kan morgenavond niet met je naar de bioscoop (mee)gaan. -or-
- Ik kan morgenavond niet met je mee(gaan) naar de bioscoop.

Furthermore, when two infinitives are at the end of a sentence, in German you need to put them in the right order, which is called Ersatzinfinitiv. In Dutch the order of those infinitives is the other way around:
- Ich habe ihm nicht helfen können Ik heb hem niet kunnen helpen.
- Ich habe dich nicht kommen sehen Ik heb je niet zien komen.
Right. It is important to note that names of languages need a capital in Dutch (where French and German don't):
- Nederlands, Duits, Deens, Engels, Frans, Grieks, Hebreeuws, IJslands

I wasn't aware there were two wars between Germany and Denmark in the 19th century.

The 'g' is probably giving you a headache. It's the same sound as the 'ch' in Enschede and Scheveningen. Scheveningen en Enschede. Don't forget to pronounce the 'l' (ell) in 'hemelbed': heymolbæt. [ *h eː . m ə l . 'b ɛ t ]

If you still might think we don't know the word lied, please hear this song: 't Smurfenlied ("Dit is een lied met een leuk refrein" = This is a song with a nice refrain).

As for the cost of public spending, we even sometimes have TV programmes where they show how money was thrown "over de balk" (they spent it like water). Here is a 'balk' (no need to know any Dutch! It's physical absurdistic theatre).

More absurdistic sketches? Please see 'Toren C' (Tower C): "Koffiezetapparaat" (Coffee-maker) (again, no need to know any Dutch).

Stringing words together, in Dutch it is easy: arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekeringsformulier is a form that you need to fill out (or in) for your arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering (when you want to insure yourself against the inability to work), and a 'verzekeringsmaatschappij' is an insurance company. (The 's' is more like a genitive, it's not a plural, because the plural of the noun 'verzekering' is 'verzekeringen'.) In Dutch, two nouns must be pieced together.

Bestuurslidje
Found this one on http://www.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=152612: "Mocht het verhaal waar zijn, dan kan hij ook meteen stoppen met bestuurdslidje spelen." (Should the story be true, then he can also immediately stop playing 'bestuurslidje'.) The '-je'-part is 'a bit' belittling here. We do use 'een beetje' quite often in Dutch, while in all honesty we mean 'a lot': Hij is een beetje boos = He is a little angry (while it could mean that he is very angry).

wethouder
Alderman, town councillor. wet = law. houder = holder, keeper. Keeper of the law. Lawkeeper.

Plurals
Most Dutch words have plural +-en: woord → woorden (word, words)
If the last syllable already ends in -en, then it will be +-s: varken → varkens (pig, pigs)
In English it can be difficult, too: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/plurals-of-nouns

Wind-speed
The 'windsnelheid' is expressed in km/h in the Netherlands. It has been a stormy night and we now have 'wintertijd' (wintertime) again.

Stavelot
Repaired the link. Stavelot is one of the oldest towns of Belgium. The city of Stavelot is known for the Battle of the Bulge. You can find three museums in the abbey of Stavelot. There is the Spa-Francorchamps Racetrack Museum, there is the Historical museum of the Principality of Stavelot-Malmedy and there is the Guillaume Apollinaire Museum. Worth seeing and widely known are the waterfalls of Coo. With 15 meters, the Amel has the highest waterfall in Belgium.

Berlin
What did I see? Late in the afternoon of the first day, after we lunched at the Greek Orankesee Terrassen, we went to the famous Wall (or what is left of it, of course) in the evening and it started raining as twilight was slightly setting in. We walked past Checkpoint Charlie and made a short walk through the streets, ending up dining at a Chinese restaurant.
The second day we passed die Marienkirche, walked Unter den Linden, passing several bookstalls, and went to the Neues Museum (New Museum) at the Museumsinsel (Museum Island). Afterwards we went to Brandenburger Tor and Kurfürstendamm, stopping by at a tearoom (drinking tea from a soup bowl-sized cup), taking a bus to Station Zoo, passing the Siegessäule (Victory Column) at the Großer Stern, a huge traffic roundabout.
On the third day it stormed. Time to visit some more museums at the Museumsinsel (remember 'island'). This time around we went to the Pergamonmuseum and the Altes Museum. It really stormed when we were done visiting museums. The doorkeeper at the museum said public transport was a mess. We decided to cross the bridge on the river Spree and look for a restaurant instead of returning to our hotel. While the wind was blowing hard we chose the HEat restaurant (part of Radisson Blu). Outside a small hurricane was reigning and wreaking havoc. After having had a delicious meal we leave the restaurant and the waiter shows us out: "Nicht wegfliegen!" (Don't fly away). It's still storming. At the tram-stop we wait for tram M5. M4-trams are passing by ten times and also one M6-tram does. We see 'M5: departure is delayed' at the info-sign. Three quarters of an hour later we are given hope: M5 surfaces from the opposite direction. It will turn around farther on and return to this tram-stop. The tram-ride goes by without further ado, many people at this time of the day ­— late in the evening — in the tram. It's almost twelve o'clock when we get out of the tram.
The next day we face an uprooted tree opposite our hotel, yesterday barring the tram-line. It's the end of our stay at Berlin and time to leave.

I didn't want to confuse you with too much information.

Plural of hoef is hoeven.
You need to distinguish between long and short vowels.
'hof' has a short vowel o, 'hoef' has a long vowel (digraph) oe.
(The Dutch digraph 'oe' is almost exactly pronounced as the German 'u'. To pronounce it in Dutch, you should make the vowel last a little longer. Try 'zoet' (sweet). Then try 'zoetgevooisd' (with a sweet voice).)
If the word ends in 'f' and the vowel is short, in the plural form the 'f' is doubled and 'en' is added. If the vowel is long, in the plural form the 'f' is changed into 'v' and 'en' is added.
But there are exceptions. The plural of 'hof' is 'hoven'.
Result:
hof → hoven (also: hofje → hofjes)
hoef → hoeven
stof → stoffen

In Dutch, 'hof' has several meanings, too: garden (hof van Eden = garden of Eden), gaard = garden (boomgaard = orchard), halo, circle, ring: tepelhof = areola; monarch's court; gerechtshof = court of justice.

Coming somewhat to my senses installment
- some sort of love declaration
Thank you very much for your Berlin edition. That was during those stormy days ....
.... and the allegoric golden lady on top of the Siegessäule is celebrating the Germans' victory over Denmark in 1864 which gave us a national trauma from which we have not really recovered yet ....

adriverhof, these days of ping-pong with you, with so many words, and with so much music has been like sich hineinzustürzen – this whirlwind where that compartmentje in your brain is fed stuff you didn’t know it needed, and if you did, didn’t know where to find. To me it has been a love affair in a field where people wouldn’t think love existed.

Of course, you have spent all too much time here. I have wondered how you managed, you being a working person. Me having no job have been able to do very little besides growing this fascination, and my new Dutch homework is just piling up.
Dustbunnies! Windows needing cleaning!
Pushing all of that aside, eating and drinking greedily, enjoying that ping-pong with a Dutchman.

Of course, daily life catches up with you and with me. I hope we shall continue exchanging word wonders at a manageable scale in the future, because every day you meet things you would like to discuss with another person, but who is putting grammar and wordplays on the top of his/her list of items to discuss?
I really don’t know any. It seemed I had to go the Netherlands in order to hijack one.

Do you know the American car rental company called ”Rent a Wreck”?
We have a sister/copycat in Denmark. It’s called ”Rent a Corpse/Dead Body” which doesn’t swing all that well in English. But write it in Danish:
”Lej et lig”
– and all of a sudden it plays almost better than the American one. Alliteration and all.

On the window it says:
I know, but I still care to talk words. Hope you do too.
For both: as time allows.

*luxaflex* - a trademark that has changed into a common Dutch word. "Honey, shall I close the luxaflex?" Does that count?

Paul Verhoeven installment
- just got pretty excited
adriverhoef, getting ready to go to the movies. Our local Asta-klubben - the Asta Club named for Asta Nielsen -
which shows 'narrow' movies
-'narrow books' are good quality literature that just doesn't sell well
The one they show today happens to be 'Elle' directed by Paul Verhoeven.
Add that to my waiting 'Zwartboek' and I all of a sudden I will have tripled my Dutch film count
+ I will have sampled Paul Verhoeven.
- and I'll listen carefully to them speaking Dutch
- pretty low line count

Not trying to spoil anything, but isn't it a French film? I hope you have subtitles, like we do in the Netherlands with all foreign language movies.