Traditional - Kumbaya guitar chord

From: schrey@globalnet.hn (Bob Schrey, J. Edwards Real)

Subject: t/traditional/kumbaya.crd

Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:35:45 -0600

Hope you enjoy this and can improve on it. Copy me if you make some

improvements.

Bob Schrey

Kumbaya Marvin V. Frey-1930's(with Angolan translation)

C F C

Kumbaya, my Lord,, kum-ba - ya (3x)

EM (F) (C) G

O Lord, kum-ba - ya.

C F C

Someone's sleeping***, Lord, kum-ba - ya (3x)

EM (F) (C) G

O Lord, kum-ba - ya.

(Other verses)

C F C

Come by here, my Lord, come by here (3x)

EM (F) (C) G

O Lord, come by here.

***Singing, dreaming, crying, laughing, etc.

"Kumbaya is Angolan dialect for "Come by here". Frey wrote the gospel chorus "Come By Here" in the 1930's. A missionary couple learned the song & used it in their work in Angola. When the song returned to the U.S., its original source had been lost. Joan Baez & Weavers have recorded it along with others.