"Kumbaya" or "Kumbayah" (Gullah, "Come By Here" — "Kum ba yah") — is an African-American spiritual song from the 1930s. It enjoyed newfound popularity during the folk revival of the 1960s and became a standard campfire song in Scouting and nature-oriented organizations.
The song was originally associated with human and spiritual unity, closeness and compassion, and it still is in many places around the world, though in recent decades it has also been popularly used as a symbol for naïve expectations of said outcomes.
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