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I inherited a violin and music (“Estrellita - Mexican Serenade”) from my great-uncle Russel Hayes in Pennsylvania, a fiddler who I knew only when I was a baby.
My father, Paul August Andreas Schulz, taught us many old two-part German songs in Gräfelfing, near Munich. We sang on all our hikes “Wach Nachtigall” and “Meins Herzens Schöne.” We sang rounds: “Sitzt a kloans Vogerl,” “Es Tönen die Lieder,” “Rosenstock, Holder,” “Dat Du Meen Levter Bist.” My mother, Ellen Russel Hayes, had a lovely voice and sang us spirituals to put us to sleep: “Swing Low” and “I Got a Robe.”...
