巴 比倫河在美索不達米亞平原，位於伊拉克和 伊朗之間。據說《巴比倫河》的曲調最初是牙買加的民間音樂，1969年歌手Brent Dowe, Tony Brevette, and Trevor McNaughton根據《聖經》之讚美詩137：1填詞，歌詞的大意是：公元前586年，奴役者命令流放在巴比倫的猶太人一起唱歌。但此時此刻猶太人那 有心情唱歌，因為他們的聖城耶路撒冷已被敵人占領，要唱的話，也隻能是大聲唱出自己的心聲－－自由。1972年《巴比倫河》收錄在音樂片《the Harder they come》, 該片向世界展示了優美的牙買加的民間音樂。1978年，BONEY M 首次演唱《巴比倫河》（歌詞略作改動），在歐洲樂壇引起巨大轟動，單曲銷量創下了英國 唱片史上的紀錄。隨後兩三年，他們的許多歌在世界各個排行榜占有一席之地。
Boney M - Rivers of Babylon 1978
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah 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
Requiering of us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song
in a strange land
(Instrumental)
Yeah Yeah Yeah
Let the words of our mouth
and the meditations of our hearts
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
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
(Instrumental)
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we
New International Version (NIV)
Psalm 137
1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
3 for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How can we sing the songs of the Lord
while in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, Jerusalem,
may my right hand forget its skill.
6 May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
my highest joy.
7 Remember, Lord, what the Edomites did
on the day Jerusalem fell.
“Tear it down,” they cried,
“tear it down to its foundations!”
8 Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
9 Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
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