Kum Ba Yah
by Traditional
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- Key
- C major
- Tempo
- ♩ = 80
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 6
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Spirituals
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Traditional
About this piece
A spiritual from the African American Gullah communities of the south-east coast, first recorded in 1926 from a singer in South Carolina. The title is a spelling of "come by here".
Why it is free to use
A traditional tune with no known author, in print since about 1926. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of Kum Ba Yah is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.