Writer(s) : DOWE, BRENT
Artist: Boney M. Lyrics 

Intro - |Hum First Two Lines

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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
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Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
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Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

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When the wicked
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Carried us away in captivity
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Required from us a song
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Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land

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When the wicked
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Carried us away in captivity
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Requiring from us a song
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Now how shall we sing the lord's song in a strange land


|Hum First Two Lines(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah )

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Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart
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Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

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Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart
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Be acceptable in thy sight here tonight

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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
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Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.


Hum First Two Lines

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By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
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Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

(repeat and fade)
 By the rivers of Babylon (dark tears of Babylon)
 There we sat down (you got to sing a song)
 Ye-eah we wept, (sing a song of love)
 When we remember Zion. (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 their god)
 When we remember Zion. (ooh, have the power)

 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down
 Ye-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion