From the article, "A Simple, Sincere Song."

That is how I think of Come By Here (which is how I learned it,) and I really think it is a lovely and evocatively simple song suited for the experience of people joining their voices together in song. Maybe I like it because I wasn't over exposed to it - I wasn't a summer camper in my youth, and have also been crowd-averse my entire life, so have participated very little in mass sit-in's, marches and rallies.

Unity and commonality are not synonyms. Humans, in my very, very humble opinion, fair much better when we are reminded of all that we share in common, even if we are not united in our views.