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The last time I heard Kumbaya being sung was by a group of students on a ferry during a rough crossing from England to France. I was very sea-sick at the time and consequently never wish to hear it again as it brings back bad memories! I never did know what Kumbaya meant.
Kumbaya is a Gullah black pronunciation of ‘Come By here’. The song is literally ‘Come By Here, Lord’ On these isolated islands off the Georgia and Carolina coasts, the former slaves actually kept African words and customs. The Gullah chants are repeated over and over to induce a sublime state that was quite a ‘Sunday Balm’ in their wretched lives. This is one of Doris Ulman’s magnificent photographs from the twenties.
http://www.visibledarkness.com/depression/ulmann/photos/photo_23.html
Reverence and beauty? Remember that? Anyone who calls out of his misery, sin and confusion on The Name of Jesus Christ is a brother to me. And NO I’m not ‘indifferent’.
Where do people still sing Kumbaya? It is as redolent of the 1960s as is ‘Michael Row the Boat Ashore’. If I heard it at Mass I would probably weep with nostalgia for my lost youth. Rather like hearing ‘Bring Flowers of the Rarest’ (gulp!)
What I never understood is why people who object to Latin, or even to the new English translation, as being incomprehensible to ‘ordinary’ churchgoers, are yet perfectly happy for them to sing songs of African origin whose meaning is even more obscure and further from their culture.
Digdigby, I’m with you! Remember having the large recording of the Africn Mass in which they sang ‘Kumbaya” and other songs. How many of our hymns come from the Methodist hymnal?
Praise God in the words and language that he gave you, that is all that is asked for. And my youth was not lost – it was blessed….
Eureka! I found the correct translation. Kum-by-YA! is Klingonese for “Yo Mama!”