actually, while i cant stand this, and this shows the beginning of theses Sisters demise... some information is in order...............
The origins of the song are disputed.
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. "Come By Yah", as they called it, was sung in Gullah, the creole pidgin dialect spoken by the former slaves living on the Sea Islands …
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