By the Babylonian rivers
By the Babylonian rivers. Ewald J. Bash (1924-1994).
From Ewald J. Bash*’s and John Ylvisaker*’s Songs for Today (1964), this paraphrase of part of Psalm 137, set to a Latvian folk melody, KAS DZIEDAJA, has appeared in a number of important books, including The Faith We Sing (the supplement to UMH), Together in Song: The Australian Hymn Book II, and VU. It is set as a hymn by David Cherwien* and as an anthem setting by Mark...
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