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BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
Psalm 137
Dwight Armstrong
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By the wa-ters of Bab - y- lon, There we wept
and there sat down;
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Let my right hand for- get her skill,
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Je - ru- sa-lem I for-get;
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that day of J e - ru-s' lem' s fall, When the children of E -dom said,
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Hung our harps on the wil-low trees, Zi - on, yet we re-mem-ber'd
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Down with her, down un-to the ground, E-ven to the foun-da
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Then our cap-tors re-quired of us: Sing a song
Zi-on now'.
But we thought of Je - ru - sa- lem, When we sat near Zi-on's streams.
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thou daugh-ter of Bab - y - Ion, To
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Far a-bove e - ven our chief joy, We
Hap - py he that re-ward-eth thee, Just
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the wa-ters of Bab-y -Ion?
re- mem-ber'd Je-ru-sa-lem.
as thou un-to us hast done.
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