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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 ...
The rivers of Babylon are the Euphrates river, its tributaries, and the Tigris river. Psalm 137 is a hymn expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people during their Babylonian exile. In its whole form of nine verses, the psalm reflects the yearning for Jerusalem as well as hatred for the Holy City's enemies with sometimes violent imagery.
"Hold Back the River" is a song by English singer-songwriter James Bay. It was released in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2014 by Republic Records as the second single from Bay's first studio album Chaos and the Calm (2014). The song was written by the Ivor Novello award winner Iain Archer with Bay and produced by Jacquire King.
The rhythms of these chants were eventually an influence of popular ska, rocksteady and reggae music. Niyabinghi chants include: "400 Million Blackman" "400 Years" (its lyrics influenced Peter Tosh's "400 Years") "Babylon In I Way" "Babylon Throne Gone Down" (arranged by Bob Marley to "Rastaman Chant" in 1973) "Banks of the River" "Behold Jah live"
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.
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
"Calm Down", a 2015 song by G-Eazy from When It's Dark Out "Calm Down", a 2023 song by All Time Low from Tell Me I'm Alive; Calm Down, a character and episode from ...
"Calm Down" is a hip hop song. It features two lengthy verses by each rapper, both preceded by a chorus. The instrumental is produced by Scoop DeVille and is based around a sample of the introductory horns from the 1992 House of Pain song "Jump Around" (which themselves are taken from Bob & Earl's 1963 track "Harlem Shuffle").