Most of this I learned today when researching the song. Here's a common translation: /passage/> The grief (and at the end, rage) are evident. Psalm 137 is a song of mourning the loss of Jerusalem to Babylon and the exile of the Jewish people around 600 BCE.
It's absolutely haunting.Īs others have mentioned, this is based on the first line of Psalm 137 the arrangement is from the 1700s, by Philip Hayes. Even without hearing the lyrics fully (I come to this site because I don't hear lyrics easily, maybe you do too!) or knowing that backstory, I had a sense of gut-wrenching mourning from this song. I don't know enough about the 1973 war to know whether it was in fact an existential threat to Israel if it seemed likely at the time, then this would have been apropos.
I found an interesting link referencing this or a similar recording (incongruously on Jewish Humor Central, but the page explains what's up): /2014/08/… "Back in 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, singer Don McLean performed his hit song Babylon in front of a live audience and had them singing along with him." The Yom Kippur War was between Israel and several Arab states. The recording I heard (are there others?) was Don McLean leading the audience in a round. Here's a common translation: The grief (and at the end, rage) are evident. As others have mentioned, this is based on the first line of Psalm 137 the arrangement is from the 1700s, by Philip Hayes.
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