Kumbaya

Kumbaya - even Kum bay ya - is the title of a famous English song from North America, the text of which is by the frequent repetition of the words Lord, Kumbaya ( "Lord (meaning God ), Kumbaya " ) marked.

The origin of the song is disputed. The New York clergyman Marvin V. Frey (1918-1992) claimed to have written the song with the original text " Come By Here" in the 1930s. The change of "Come by here 'to' Kumbaya ' is explained by the fact that the song of missionaries in Angola had been made known. 1946 had been returned by a missionary family with the Angolan text " Kumbaya " to America the song.

Another explanation holds that song for much older and sees its roots in the Gullah - a creole language based on English, which is spoken in the coastal regions of the southeastern United States, especially by blacks. Kum bay ya mean in their language " Come by here".

The song has a religious text that can be understood primarily by the prompt " Come by here" as a religious challenge to the Christian God or in Jesus. Owes its fame the song but the recent popularity American folk music in the 1960s. In 1958 Pete Seeger sang it and recorded together with the briefly reunited Weavers 1959. It was followed by The Seekers and later Joan Baez. The song became one of the anthems of the civil rights movement and is connected in the U.S. to date it.

In the 1990s, each year in Canada, the " Kumbaya Festival " organized the collected money as a music festival for Canadian groups working in the area of HIV and AIDS. In 2001, the song in a recording of the Guano Apes and Michael Mittermeier Meier was under the title Kumba yo! edited. In December 2006, it put Mickie Krause as mood hit scratch.

Today, the song is still in religious and non - religious circles, for example, around campfires, popular. Since the origin is disputed, is also not clear who owns the copyright to text and melody.