This is in fact Kumbayah, the ultimate three chord folk song, except John de Luca has usefully changed the words and used somewhat more than just 3 chords.
It was originally an African-American spiritual that was taken up by the folk revival of the 1950s.
A typical chord chart in D with the original lyrics would be:
D G D Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya D G A Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya D G D Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya G D A D Oh Lord, kum-ba-ya
But de Luca uses instead:
D Bm7 D G D Em D Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya) D Bm F#m Gmaj7 Em G A Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya) D Bm7 D G Dmaj7 Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya G D A7 D G D Oh Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya)
Much more fun.
I did a backing:
1 Come again my Lord, come again! (come again)
Come again my Lord, come again! (come again)
Come again my Lord, come again!
O Lord, come again! (come again)
2 To reward the just, come again! (come again)
To bring sinners home, come again! (come again)
To make all things new, come again!
O Lord, come again! (come again)
3 Source of unity, come again! (come again)
Light of all the world, come again! (come again)
Brother of all men, come again!
O Lord, come again! (come again)
4 When my eyelids close, come again! (come again)
When my life is done, come again! (come again)
One with you at last, come again!
O Lord, come again! (come again)
I’m not going to find this version on You-Tube but listening to Judith Durham will compensate.
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Mason’s “Mass of Glory and Praise”
To access my backings for Paul Mason's mass go to Feb 2011 in the archive.