By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion

[struggle4progress]

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

But how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+137&version=KJV

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The music:

[struggle4progress]

2. Lovely! And it's such a pleasure to watch those singers move!

[comradebillyboy]

3. Rivers of Babylon-The Melodians

[struggle4progress]

5. They're really good!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Don McLean did an excellent version.

[struggle4progress]

6. Thanks!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. You are welcome!

[struggle4progress]

14. .

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

16. Thank you so much for that.

It's incredibly beautiful.

[uriel1972]

8. Is that the same song that talks about bashing the heads of infant babylonians against a rock...

or is that another psalm... not everything in the Bible is beautiful or worthy.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. It is - final 3 verses:

Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9 Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.

It's a revenge psalm.

[struggle4progress]

12. It's an old song in the voice of people conquered and carried off in captivity as slaves

It's a credible reflection on how people react to such circumstances

[uriel1972]

17. My intention was to highlight the cherry picking...

Bashing out the brains of infants is not beautiful or heartwarming no matter the circumstances it was written under trying to gloss over it is not honest.

[steventh]

9. Linda Rondstadt - Rivers of Babylon

Comment from Glenn Miller 3 years ago:
"The lyrics are both from Psalm 137 and Psalm 19:14. Psalm 137 is about the 70 year Babylonian Captivity."

[struggle4progress]

13. Excellent!

[tanyev]

11. I love the Godspell version--On the Willows

[struggle4progress]

15. Great! Thanks!