By the Babylonian rivers - piano

By the Babylonian rivers



Author: Ewald Joseph Bash (1924-1994)



By the Babylonian rivers

we sat down in grief and wept;

hung our harps upon a willow;

mourned for Zion while we slept.



There our captors, in derision,

did require of us a song;

so we sat with staring vision

and the days were hard and long.



Could we ever sing the Lord's song

in a strange and bitter land?

Can our voices veil the sorrow?

Lord God, hear your lonely band.



(Based on Psalm 137:1-4)