{"id":9341,"date":"2019-02-14T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/02\/14\/the-melodians-rivers-of-babylon"},"modified":"2019-02-14T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T07:38:20","slug":"the-melodians-rivers-of-babylon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/02\/14\/the-melodians-rivers-of-babylon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Melodians: Rivers of Babylon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CDYAqz603TE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This post presents &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CDYAqz603TE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rivers of Babylon<\/a>,&#8221; a Rastafari song written by the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics, provided below and based on Psalms 19 and 137, express the devastation of the Babylonian Exile following the destruction of the First Temple.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Rivers of Babylon<\/h2>\n<div class=\"G1VCxe kno-fb-ctx\">\n<div class=\"xpdxpnd\" data-mh=\"62\" data-mhc=\"1\">By the rivers of Babylon<br \/>\nWhere we sat down<br \/>\nAnd there we wept<br \/>\nWhen we remembered Zion<\/p>\n<p>But the wicked carried us away in captivity<br \/>\nRequired from us a song<br \/>\nHow can we sing King Alpha song<br \/>\nIn a strange land?<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause the wicked carried us away in captivity<br \/>\nRequired from us a song<br \/>\nHow can we sing King Alpha song<br \/>\nIn a strange land?<\/p>\n<p>Sing it out loud!<br \/>\nSing a song of freedom sister!<br \/>\nSing a song of freedom brother!<\/p>\n<p>We gotta sing and shout it!<br \/>\nWe gotta jump and shout it!<br \/>\nShout the song of freedom now<\/p>\n<p>So let the words of our mouth<br \/>\nAnd the meditation of our heart<br \/>\nBe acceptable in Thy sight, oh Far I<br \/>\nSo let the words of our mouth<br \/>\nAnd the meditation of our heart<br \/>\nBe acceptable in Thy sight, oh Far I<\/p>\n<p>Sing it again!<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got to sing it together!<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve got to shout it together!<\/p>\n<p>By the rivers of Babylon<br \/>\nWhere we sat down<br \/>\nAnd there we wept<br \/>\nWhen we remembered Zion<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents &#8220;Rivers of Babylon,&#8221; a Rastafari song written by the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970. The lyrics, provided below and based on Psalms 19 and 137, express the devastation of the Babylonian Exile following the destruction of the First Temple.\u00a0 Rivers of Babylon By the rivers of Babylon Where we sat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":9342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2370],"tags":[2589,2410,2587],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=9341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9341\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9342\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=9341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=9341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=9341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}