David Wilcox wrote a wonderful song -- "Farther To Fall". In the song he talks about walking on a railroad track as a tighrope walker might. Then he notes that as the track goes over a high bridge tressel, suddenly much greater care is taken in the walking.

As he points out in the song:

The balance is no harder, after all
It's just that we have farther to fall.

It's not that there aren't a plethora of lame-ass songs -- just as lame-ass as Kumbaya. These come to mind...

Honey
I've Never Been To Me
Havin' My Baby
Anything by ABBA
Anything by KC & The Sunshine Band

...and we can simply laugh all of those off. They were never taken seriously. As banal as they were, they never pretended to be otherwise.

The folkscare people took themselves and their music WAY more seriously than was warranted by the quality of most of the music. And Kumbaya is one of the most glaring examples of "Farther To Fall" -- people out to change the world -- oblivious to the banality of the song.

Yee gods it was silly.