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Select singles in the Format field. In Canada, the song was a Top 25 hit on the magazine top 100 custodes chart and reached no. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah By the rivers of Babylon Rough bits of Babylon There we sat down You hear the people cry Ye-eah we wept, They need that??. Retrieved 29 January 2014. Retrieved 29 January 2014. The song was later used in the 1999 Between Cage movie and the 2010 film. Retrieved 29 January 2014. In this they must hope he will turn his attention to them and deliver them. The song was popularized in Europe by the 1978 cover version, which was awarded a disc and is one of the top ten all-time print-selling singles in the UK. Retrieved 29 January 2014. Dancing in the Streets Bonus Track 5.
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Boney M - Rivers Of Babylon - Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah By the rivers of Babylon Rough bits of Babylon There we sat down You hear the people cry Ye-eah we wept, They need that???
This article is about the song. For other uses, see. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of and in the Hebrew. The Melodians' original version of the song appeared in the soundtrack album of the 1972 movie , making it internationally known. The song was popularized in Europe by the 1978 cover version, which was awarded a disc and is one of the top ten all-time best-selling singles in the UK. Biblical psalms The song is based on the :1-4, a hymn expressing the lamentations of the following the Babylonian conquest of in 586 BC: Previously the Kingdom of Judah, after being united under Kings and , was split in two, with the Kingdom Of Israel in the north, conquered by the in 722 BC which caused the dispersion of 10 of the. The southern hence the name Jews , home of the tribe of Judah and part of the Tribe of Levi, was free from foreign domination until the Babylonian conquest to which Rivers Of Babylon refers. They carried us away in captivity requiring of us a song... Now how shall we sing the L ORD's song in a strange land? Rastafarians also identify themselves as belonging to the. Both terms refer to Selassie Selassie's wife is known as Queen Omega. According to David Stowe, Brent Dowe, the lead singer of the Melodians, told Kenneth Bilby that he had adapted Psalm 137 to the new reggae style because he wanted to increase the public's consciousness of the growing Rastafarian movement and its calls for black liberation and social justice. Like the Afro-Protestant Revival services, traditional Rastafarian worship often included psalm singing and hymn singing, and Rastas typically modified the words to fit their own spiritual conceptions; Psalm 137 was among their sacred chants. After its release in 1970, the song quickly became well known in Jamaica. The government lifted the ban. After that, it took only three weeks to become a number one hit in the Jamaican charts. The song was later used in the 1999 Nicolas Cage movie and the 2010 film. His version can be found on the 1988 CD Jamaican Deejay Music 1969-1973 - Keep on Coming Through the Door… Trojan CDTRL255. In Canada, the song was a Top 25 hit on the magazine top 100 singles chart and reached no. The song was the first single from the band's equally successful 1978 album. Some controversy arose when the first single pressings only credited Frank Farian and Reyam aka Hans-Jörg Mayer of Boney M; after an agreement with Dowe and McNaughton, these two were also credited on later pressings. The Rastafarian language was excised from the Boney M. On subsequent single pressings, only the 'yeah's were maintained. The early single pressing features the full-length 4:18 version with a chorus bit being edited out. The single mix is also slightly different from the album version which features steel drums on the outro riff of the song, the single mix doesn't. On RPM's Top 100 singles chart, the song stalled at no. The court case ran for more than 20 years in Germany. The double-A-side single contained new mixes of the band's two most successful single releases ever. Although their sold well, the single failed to chart. The song was their biggest hit, reaching number 3 in the UK charts. Other popular versions have been performed by , , , , , , and. The has included the song in their supplemental hymnal Singing the Journey Hymn 1042. Pop group recorded a version for their album in 1980. A somewhat different, but still recognisable as the same song, version appeared on 's 1972 LP , entitled just 'Babylon'. The song was also covered in 1992 by on their album. Macedonian band recorded a version of this song in Old Slavic language for their album Melourgia in 1997. The lyrics are translated into the Catalan language. In the song's video the musician performs a sort of Tai Chi dance in a screen divided in two parts with subtitles in the Basque language. Jazz band recorded a version on their 2013 album. Retrieved 14 April 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2013. 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