By Babylon's Waters - Smart, Henry Thomas

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◈ Genre / Form Anthems

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → SA

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range G1 – D6

¶ Language → English

Measures 81

Texture Homophonic

Parts 4

Instruments SA, Keyboard

Pages 7

CPDL # 71717

Editor Douglas Walczak

Posted 2022-11-30

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

F4 – G5

ALTO

B-3 – E-5

Keyboard

G1 – D4

¶Lyrics / Text

By Babylon's waters We sat down and wept! No more by our daughters Their glad harps were swept; O'er the low meaning billows, Their chords all unstrung, From the boughs of my willows Neglected they hung. The oppressors who led us, As captives, away, Exultingly bade us Restring them and play. Keen rose our wrongs As the mandate it rang, "Come sing us the songs That in Zion ye sang." Thy songs, could we sing them in exile, or shame, Our lips, could we bring them To breathe but Thy name! No! as then, mute for ev-er Our voices may be, But, faithless! no, never, Lov'd Zion, to thee!

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