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Illustration of the weeping by the rivers of Babylon from Chludov Psalter (9th century). The song is based on the Biblical Psalm 137:1–4, a hymn expressing the lamentations of the Jewish people in exile following the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC: [1] Previously the Kingdom of Israel, after being united under Kings David and Solomon, had been split in two, with the Kingdom of ...
"An Wasserflüssen Babylon" (By the rivers of Babylon) is a Lutheran hymn by Wolfgang Dachstein, which was first published in Strasbourg in 1525. The text of the hymn is a paraphrase of Psalm 137 . Its singing tune, which is the best known part of the hymn and Dachstein's best known melody, was popularised as the chorale tune of Paul Gerhardt ...
"Rivers of Babylon" (arranged and released by The Jamaicans, Boney M arrangement became a world hit) "Rock-of-my Soul" "Rock of Ises" "Roll River Jordan" "Run Come Rally" "Satta Massagana" "Send One Mighty Ingel" "So Long Rastafari" (arranged by Bob Marley in 1978; arranged and released by Dennis Brown in 1979-also check out SO LONG-Count Ossie ...
Rivers of Babylon, a novel by Peter Pišťanek; Rivers of Babylon, a 1998 Slovak film; By the Rivers of Babylon, a novel by Nelson DeMille "By the Waters of Babylon", a short story by Stephen Vincent Benét "By the Waters of Babylon: Little Poems in Prose" a poem by Emma Lazarus "Rivers of Babylon", a song by Sublime
The "Rivers of Babylon" section has been changed to showcase a person attending the dentist. The crescendo "aaah" sound in "Rivers of Babylon" remains in the song, but is changed to sound like the patient is opening their mouth wider and wider for the dentist to see more into it, with each pause in-between having the dentist saying "Open wider ...
Director Damien Chazelle and composer Justin Hurwitz infuse the film's Roaring '20s score with a spirit that was more modern rock 'n' roll or even rave culture.
The song rose to the top of the charts in Germany and Austria and went to No. 2 in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. It was also another No. 1 hit for Boney M. in Australia, giving them their second (and last) chart-topper in that country (the other one being "Rivers of Babylon").
The first sentence, "Rivers Of Babylon is a popular disco version by German band Boney M. from 1978, penned by the late Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of The Melodians.", doesn't fully make sense. Version? Also it reads like the song was only sung by Boney M. 84.203.34.194 16:43, 28 June 2008 (UTC) I've rewritten this.