# The meaning of Kumbaya

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-kumbaya/468173>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 16, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-kumbaya/468173 "2008-10-16T09:05:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![missx3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@missx3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missx3)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-kumbaya/468173/1 "2008-10-16T09:05:36Z")

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Just as one brief example of my superior intelligence, I asked the question ‘What does kumbaya mean’ to my mother when I was a mere child, but apparently an adult was asking it here. Mommy always told me it meant ‘come by us’, as in the song “Oh Lord, Kumbaya”.

My mother wasn’t a magna cum laude graduate for nothing!🙂

reference: [vvwvv.com/ninapage/woman](http://vvwvv.com/ninapage/woman) of wisdom:)

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-kumbaya/468173/2 "2008-10-16T11:35:23Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB, **missx3**.

Here’s a link to the article (I think) you’re talking about…

> **[What does “kumbaya” mean?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342426/what-does-kumbaya-mean)**

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-kumbaya/468173/3 "2008-10-16T11:39:43Z")

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> [@missx3](#):
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> Just as one brief example of my superior intelligence, I asked the question ‘What does kumbaya mean’ to my mother when I was a mere child, but apparently an adult was asking it here. Mommy always told me it meant ‘come by us’, as in the song “Oh Lord, Kumbaya”.
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> My mother wasn’t a magna cum laude graduate for nothing!🙂
> 
> reference: [vvwvv.com/ninapage/woman](http://vvwvv.com/ninapage/woman) of wisdom:)

If you fix your link, I’ll check your source.

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**Author:** ![SeanArenas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeanArenas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeanArenas)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-meaning-of-kumbaya/468173/4 "2008-10-16T18:34:55Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> If you fix your link, I’ll check your source.

That link almost looks like it was scanned. vv instead of w? Spaces in the URL?