By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion When the wicked carried us away in captivity Required from us a song Now, how shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? When the wicked carried us away in captivity Requiring of us a song Now, how shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let the words of our mouth And the meditations of our heart Be acceptable in Thy sight Here tonight Let the words of our mouth And the meditation of our hearts Be acceptable in Thy sight Here tonight By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion By the rivers of Babylon (dark tears of Babylon) There we sat down (you got to sing a song) Yeah, we wept (sing a song of love) When we remembered Zion (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) By the rivers of Babylon (rough bits of Babylon) There we sat down (you hear the people cry) Yeah, we wept (they need their God) When we remembered Zion (ooh, have the power) By the rivers of Babylon (oh, yeah, yeah) There we set down (oh, yeah, yeah) Yeah, we wept (dark tears of Babylon) When we remembered Zion (ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion When the wicked carried us away in captivity Required from us a song Now, how shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? When the wicked carried us away in captivity Requiring of us a song Now, how shall we sing the Lord's song In a strange land? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Let the words of our mouth And the meditations of our heart Be acceptable in Thy sight Here tonight Let the words of our mouth And the meditation of our hearts Be acceptable in Thy sight Here tonight By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion By the rivers of Babylon There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion By the rivers of Babylon (dark tears of Babylon) There we sat down (you got to sing a song) Yeah, we wept (sing a song of love) When we remembered Zion (yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) By the rivers of Babylon (rough bits of Babylon) There we sat down (you hear the people cry) Yeah, we wept (they need their God) When we remembered Zion (ooh, have the power) By the rivers of Babylon (oh, yeah, yeah) There we set down (oh, yeah, yeah) Yeah, we wept (dark tears of Babylon) When we remembered Zion (ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah)
A canção “Rivers of Babylon” foi originalmente escrita e gravada em 1970 por Brent Dowe e Trevor McNaughton, membros do grupo jamaicano de reggae The Melodians.
A letra adapta trechos dos Salmos 19 e 137 da Bíblia Hebraica, trazendo um forte vínculo com a tradição rastafári.
A versão dos Melodians ganhou visibilidade internacional ao integrar a trilha sonora do filme “The Harder They Come” (1972).
A versão de Boney M, lançada em 1978, recebeu disco de platina e entrou entre os singles mais vendidos de todos os tempos no Reino Unido.
O lado B do single de Boney M, “Brown Girl in the Ring”, também se tornou um sucesso nas paradas.
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