The comment, "It doean't matter what the language" is interesting, since "Kumbaya" (a.k.a. Kum Ba Yah) is definitely a language other than English, but its language of origin is disputed, as best I can tell. I checked Wikipedia, which calls "Kum Ba Ya" the "now world famous Angolan text" to the song "Kumbayah". But later it also states that "Kumbayah" comes ffom the Gullah language, in which it means "Come by here". Gullah is a language of descendants of slaves now living on coastal islands in Georgia and South Carolina. Angola is an african country considerably farther south than where the slave trade took place, so the reason for any similarity between an Angolan and a Gullah version of the phrase is unexplained by any source that I've come across. In any event the words of the song "Kumbayah", "Kumbayah, my Lord, Kumbayah" are generally understood to mean "Come by here, my Lord, come by here." So the lyrics to "One Small Voice" quoted avove might seem to vaguly equate that message with "Give us peace on Earth this Christmas day". That, ironically, doesn't lend much support to any suggestion that either the language OR what we say matters all that much!

The comment, "It doean't matter what the language" is interesting, since "Kumbaya" (a.k.a. Kum Ba Yah) is definitely a language other than English, but its language of origin is disputed, as best I can tell. I checked Wikipedia, which calls "Kum Ba Ya" the "now world famous Angolan text" to the song "Kumbayah". But later it also states that "Kumbayah" comes ffom the Gullah language, in which it means "Come by here". Gullah is a language of descendants of slaves now living on coastal islands in Georgia and South Carolina. Angola is an african country considerably farther south than where the slave trade took place, so the reason for any similarity between an Angolan and a Gullah version of the phrase is unexplained by any source that I've come across. In any event the words of the song "Kumbayah", "Kumbayah, my Lord, Kumbayah" are generally understood to mean "Come by here, my Lord, come by here." So the lyrics to "One Small Voice" quoted avove might seem to vaguly equate that message with "Give us peace on Earth this Christmas day". That, ironically, doesn't lend much support to any suggestion that either the language OR what we say matters all that much!