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2007/9/10-12 [Uncategorized] UID:47991 Activity:nil
9/10    what the hell is origin of 'everyone sit around and sing kum ba ya'?
        \_ I heard this before.  What does it mean anyway?
        \_ Research the Civil Rights movement.
        \_ 60's era protest/hippie/counter-culture music thing.  Try
           wikipedia or google for details.  I don't think anyone here
           is old enough to remember better than you'll get from the net.
        \_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbaya for information on the song.
           The phrase is more derogatory toward idealists -- maning roughly
           'lets all sit around singing hapy songs without actually
            accomplishing anything'
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbaya
recent research has found that sometime between 1922 and 1931, members of an organization called the Society for the Preservation of Spirituals collected a song from the South Carolina coast. Toys "R" Us commercial when Geoffrey the Giraffe sang it, but changed the lyrics to "Somebody's playing with toys." Mysterious Ways, the main character starts singing the first line while sitting around a campfire with - who first seem to be righteous - people from a desolated village cut off from modern society. Addams Family Values, when Wednesday and Pugsley are trying to escape the camp, the counselors and other campers sing Kumbaya to change them and turn their "potentially wasteful little lives around". The Addams children do not take well to this, and Wednesday ends up clutching the fence in sheer terror.