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Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafari song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics are adapted from the texts of Psalms 19 and 137 in the Hebrew Bible .
An English setting ("By the Rivers of Babylon") by David Amram (b. 1930), for solo soprano and SSAA choir (1969). [63] [64] [65] [relevant?] "Rivers of Babylon", in part based on the opening verses of the Psalm, is a Rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970.
"Rivers of Babylon" is a song by The Melodians, notably covered by Boney M. . Rivers of Babylon or Waters of Babylon may also refer to: "By the rivers of Babylon" or "By the waters of Babylon", the first phrase from Psalm 137 in Jewish liturgy and the Hebrew Bible
By the Rivers of Babylon is a 1978 thriller novel by Nelson DeMille. The plot focuses on two new Concorde jets that are flying to a U.N. meeting that will bring peace to the Middle East. However, en route to the meeting, the crews are advised by radio that bombs were hidden during the aircraft's manufacture, and they are forced on to an ...
DeMille is the author of By the Rivers of Babylon, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Spencerville, Plum Island, The Lion’s Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire, The Gate House, The Lion, The Panther, The Quest, Radiant Angel, and The Cuban Affair.
Nightflight to Venus is the third studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M., and was released in June 1978.The album became a major success in continental Europe, Scandinavia, and Canada, topping most of the album charts during the second half of 1978 and also became their first UK number one album.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
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 ...