What is the meaning of "Kumbaya" as used in religious songs? I really wanna know...please help.?

Question

There is a christian song that uses "kumbaya" but what does this word mean?

Answer 1

Literally it means "come by here".

Kumbaya apparently originated with the Gullah, an African-American people living on the Sea Islands and adjacent coastal regions of South Carolina and Georgia.

The song we know began as a Gullah spiritual. Some recordings of it were made in the 1920s, but no doubt it goes back earlier. Published versions began appearing in the 1930s. It's believed an American missionary couple taught the song to the locals in Angola, where its origins were forgotten. The song was then rediscovered in Angola and brought back here in time for the folksinging revival of the 50s and 60s.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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What is the meaning of "Kumbaya" as used in religious songs? I really wanna know...please help.?
There is a christian song that uses "kumbaya" but what does this word mean?

Answer 4

Kumbaya (Kum Ba Yah) is a song composed by Reverend Marvin V. Frey (1918 – 1992) in the 1930s in New York City. Originally titled "Come By Here", it first appeared in "Revival Choruses of Marvin V. Frey", a lyric sheet printed in Portland, Oregon in 1939. In 1946 the song returned from Africa with a missionary family, who toured America singing the song with its now world famous angolan text "Kum Ba Yah".

Sometimes the song is believed to be an original spiritual, 19th century African American folk song, originating among the Gullah, a group descended from enslaved Africans living on the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia, but there is no evidence of the song before Frey's publication.

The song enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s, largely due to Joan Baez' 1962 recording of the song, and became associated with the civil rights struggles of that decade.

Answer 5

As bellow the Island Guy answered 7 year ago, the history is correct. Further the history also mentioned that the slaves (Gulla People) who were brought from Quito Canton, Pichincha, Ecuador sang this song in their slavery between 1926 and 1928.
The Gullah language is based on English with strong influences from West and Central African languages such as Mandinka, Wolof, Bambara, Fula, Mende, Vai, Akan, Ewe, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Kongo, Umbundu, and Kimbundu.
Rev. Frey (1918–1992) claimed to have written the song circa under the title "Come By Here," inspired, he claimed, by a prayer he heard delivered by "Mother Duffin," a storefront evangelist in Portland, Oregon.

Answer 6

I don't know that much about the bible and organized religion (by choice). However, I do remember long ago, going summers away to a week long camp with the YMCA.

Seems we sung a bunch of songs, one of them being "Kumbaya". I think that the meaning of that word translates to: "Come by here".

Any help?

Answer 7

"Kumbaya" (also spelled Kum Ba Yah) is a song composed by Reverend Marvin V. Frey (1918 – 1992) in the 1930s in New York City. Originally titled "Come By Here", it first appeared in "Revival Choruses of Marvin V. Frey", a lyric sheet printed in Portland, Oregon in 1939. In 1946 the song returned from Africa with a missionary family, who toured America singing the song with its now world famous angolan text "Kum Ba Yah".

Answer 8

Kumbaya or "come by here" lord. or in plain english a deeper meaning would be "lord help those that need help".

Answer 9

It means come by here..visit us and be with us..I think! It sound like Pidgin English to me but i may be quite wrong...perhaps somebody else can clear that up.

Maybe you can tell me what "BaaBaaBaa-BaaBaaBaran" means please!

Answer 10

Its pidgin english for: "come by here"