Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya

[More Than A Feeling]

Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
Oh Lord, kumbaya

http://www.peterpaulandmary.com/music/20-13.htm

[XemaSab]

1. Thanks for teh earworm.

x(

[More Than A Feeling]

2. Just thought we could use a little Kumbaya on a night likely to be as tense as tonight.

[K Gardner]

3. Are we supposed to do the other 100 verses? Its kind of like "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall".. but

I love the song !

[MsKandice01]

4. Someone's prayin' my Loooord....

Kumbayaaaaaa

[More Than A Feeling]

6. Whatever you like.

In other threads, they may be tearing each other apart. We're sitting around the campfire singing.

[IndyOp]

5. Hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone it is healed. Kumbaya. (n/t)

[IndyOp]

7. Joan Baez sings "Kumbaya" -- youtube video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3MiD_U4CHQ

[More Than A Feeling]

8. Perfect.

Thank you.

[riverwalker]

13. lovely, thank you n/t

[Redstone]

9. ...And then the lion comes out of the jungle and eats everyone,

because he's so FUCKING sick of hearing that song.

Redstone

[K Gardner]

10. ROFLMAO !!

:rofl:

[halobeam]

14. I don't even have to hear it anymore... I just "sense" it now.

[Redstone]

15. Yes, it's like an allergy...you don't have to go look for it; it just finds you.

Redstone

[riverwalker]

11. meaning of the word

it means "come by here"

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a980911a.html

[VolcanoJen]

12. Proposal: Let's retire that f'n song from Presidential Politics.

If I hear Norah O'Donnell invoke "Kumbaya" one more time, I'm going to have to hurt her.

[K Gardner]

16. Why do you hate KUMBAYA ??!!! :-)

[VolcanoJen]

21. Ha!!!

:hug: K Gard :hug:

Maybe because I've been singing it since my parents sent me off to Hippie Summer Camp in the late 70's? ;-)

[More Than A Feeling]

23. Take pity on those of us who never got the chance to go to Hippie Summer Camp.

We can only sigh wistfully and wonder how amazing it would have been to have been a hippie back in the day.

[JuniperLea]

27. I was never a hippie, but I played one on stage!

I had more than my fair share of Kumbaya at a fundy church camp I attened over several summers... ugh...

[VolcanoJen]

29. GACK!!!!

You really have to post your experiences for all of us after all this crap heats down!!!

[JuniperLea]

30. Remind me when the bordom sets in... eom

:)

[VolcanoJen]

33. After tonight, two weeks without a primary!!

Just sayin'. ;-)

[dchill]

38. It's probably more...

Norah O'Donnell than the song.

[Redstone]

19. And from the rest of the planet, as well. Please, PLEASE!

Redstone

[JuniperLea]

17. I've ripped guitars out of peoples' hands...

For starting that crap up!

:silly:

[Redstone]

20. I admire your restraint for not additionally hitting them over the head with the guitar.

Redstone

[JuniperLea]

25. There's a vicious rumor that I broke a few...

but not over heads;)

My favorite guitar shop has a sign that says: "No Stairway Allowed". I've always wanted to take a sharpie to it to add Kumbaya!

Damn fundy church camp scarred me for life!

:silly:

[HughMoran]

28. We sang it as part of the peace movement in the late 60's

I had no idea it was now a symbol of hatred instead of love.

[JuniperLea]

32. Climate change, polar shifts...

And now this!

I think it was just over-done... and too many RW Christians who don't walk the talk chant it too.

[Redstone]

35. Christ, lighten up, please. People are just saying they're sick of it just like they would

about ANY song they'd heard eighteen thousand times.

It's not like people are attacking MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, here. They're just saying they're sick of hearing a SONG.

(And tell me you don't cringe every time you're at a wedding, and the band or DJ cranks up "That Old Time rock and Roll" or "New York, New York")

Redstone

[HughMoran]

36. Haven't sang it in about 40 years

I was reminiscing and you're telling me to "lighten up Harold"

Guess I don't live in an area where Kumbaya is recited except during historical peace movements - who knew it was a pop wonder and would cause some to make violent jokes about it.

[Redstone]

37. Jesus, I'm sorry that my joke offended your sensibilities. Satisfied now?

Redstone

[HughMoran]

39. "Satisfied now?"

That's not the language of someone who's actually sorry.

[VolcanoJen]

31. I'm getting an Animal House visual

"I gave my love a cherry, that had no stone"

[JuniperLea]

34. Hilarious!

When I was twelve and picked up the guitar, I learned five chords... and I could play all the Peter Paul and Mary catalog... plus Creedence... plus Neil Diamond... and a lot of The Beatles... I was overjoyed!

I'm not twelve anymore, dammit:) Wish I were... those were simpler times... before I started analyzing lyrics!

[Arugula Latte]

18. Swing loooooow, sweet chaaaarioooooot

This atheist went to a Jesus-y camp once when I was a kid. Why? ... They had HORSES there. Horses trumped the annoying Jesus talk for me....So I can sing a couple of churchy tunes myself. None of the godly talk stuck to me, though. If anything, I came out even more of an atheist.

So rise and shine
and give god your glory, glory

:rofl:

[More Than A Feeling]

22. I'm an atheist, too.

The song and what it represents is larger than that, IMHO.

[Arugula Latte]

24. I know...I was just posting the blather in my brain.

Kinda free associating because I'm nervous about the results about to come in ...

[Redstone]

26. Ah, but there's nothing wrong with those "churchy tunes" (at least to me;

I'm not at ALL religious, but I do like to listen to some Gospel now and again).

It's at least honest to (some or most of) the people who sing it. Not such utter pablum as "Kumbaya."

Redstone