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  • So many great Reggae artists are forgotten. I was a little girl when the Melodians sang this. It is one of the great reggae songs in the Rasta tradition. Find a video of Jimmy Cliff chanting this in the Nyaqhbhingi way and you will understand! 

  • bob marley did not make this song it was the melodeons o smart one

  • these brothers was invited to practice and sing in our house. I was about 7yrs old and sang with them when they came. I am the youngest member of the group. but was too young to go out with and sing. My family went to church at the Church Of God in Christ off Bond Avenue in Centreville, Ill. We suggest to them that they sing the Psalms because, which were songs of King David. and we, I and the Melodians sang this song first at our house on Piggott Ave in Centreville. I wonder if they remember.

  • Queen Elizabeth n Rothchilds dem need to listen to the real original jews sing to the God of Israel who soon deliver them.

  • How did the haters and polluters of the air get here to leave their evil messages?

  • favorite variation

  • psalm 137 (136). Amen Bob Marley. God rest your soul! +++

  • anybody who always thinks of Bob Marley and reggae together don't really no what good reggae is.

  • Marley understood God's Word. And he sang about it. That is the reason his songs are so heart-felt and make you feel so good.

  • used to cry when i would go by my real mom, and she sang it while i go 2 sleep :) ,,,,nice song

  • Bob Marley had nothing to do with this-- why is he the only person shown in the slideshow?

  • The Melodians wrote it and performed it. The only one since to do it as well as Jimmy Cliff opening with Congo Man. 

  • ANOTHER SONG THAT COULD BE SUNG IN CHURCH.BOBS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE THERE,HE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS SONG.

  • old is gold!

  • Bob Marley has nothing to do with this

  • Bob marleys great but he didn't make this or red wine..... Jimmy cliff made this version

  • @shizamza which i believe i thinks the original

  • what does bob have to do with melodians... im a fan too.. but bob did not make every reggae song

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  • @jrst6 haha! yeah, I think a lot of white people tink dat Bob Marley wrote and/or sang every reggae/dub song ever made, lol

  • This man was great I don`t care what anyone thinks I love his music. You music will live for ever. Bless you (RIP)

  • Wonder why they left this part of Psalm 137 out of the song?

    Psalm 137:9 Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!

  • @disrxt LOL! great comment XD

  • Music is and has always been the insurmountable favored way to give thanks and praise, for music comes from the very heart and soul of mankind.Take care ADonovan43

  • This is a great version of a great prayer. In my synagogue we sing often sing this in the children's service, except in Hebrew.

  • bob marley was not a member of the melodians (the group who wrote and performed this song. they are also the ones who u r hearing.) never the less, Bob marley is a legend and visionary. thumbs up!!!!!!

  • this is great also chekc out sublimes beautiful version

  • and by the way this is Psalm 137:1, for those who aren't too busy finding details to fuss about. rasta is the only way. it began with one true god, and it will end  with one true god. dont let babylon blind and confuse you.

  • this is jimmy cliff, not bob marley or the wailers. anyone who has listen to enuff bob , ect. would know this. great song though.

  • Recourse to ancient and multi-sieved mytho-history, while useful when choosing up teams, is no reliable or practical basis for resolving today's geopolitical tensions. Depend on it, both history and morality are in fact irrelevant in such cases: what counts is the balance of power and only that. So don't waste your time looking backward - EXCEPT, OF COURSE, FOR A MARVELOUS SONG LIKE THIS ONE.

  • Boney M's version was better...

  • @jfritzyb And still is!

  • @jfritzyb P.S. - All I know for sure is, both Boney and Melodian versions are wonderful!!!

  • Bob was the catalyst that brought reggae to the mainstream with all its roots.

  • Bob Marley overratated?!? Are you insane? Done with that.

    Came here through Harder They Come, best soundtrack EVER.

  • I'll back you up. Mr. Julian Galt is an idiot. Why slam the guy? This is a beautiful song.

  • @MrJulianGalt youre a loser

  • @illmaticstatic93 while that may or may not be true, bob marley is hugely overrated and is not the best reggae artist ever and certainly not in the league of great musical acts

  • @MrJulianGalt youre an idiot. can someone else back me up on this. it doesnt matter if you think he is a great reggae artist or not, the point is he made amazing music that inspired people, that was his goal the whole time

  • nice..

  • Hmmmm,very interesting.

  • "His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love -- inspired by his belief in Rastafari -- was beginning to be heard and felt."

    Bob Marley converted to Catholicism on his death bed.

  • @throneboogie it was Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity

  • @throneboogie actually he had converted to Orthodox Christianity six months prior to his death my friend, He was given an Orthodox burial which you can watch on YT.

  • Dis tune a mek mi Soul Sing...

  • @slicendice94 that was metaphorical...if you wish to take it literarly than you have to also belive that the kingdom of byblon is only one woman....a whore

  • oh. nevermind then everybody carry on. As you were. Nothing to see here.

  • THIS SONG IS NOT BY BOB MARLEY! Its the Melodians

  • @mrexcellentguy yeah we know it's by the melodians. the uploader LIVICATED the upload to bob, didnt say it was BY bob

  • Yall speek like lil jacob on bad man game box o_0

  • merci Jimmy cllif pour le bonheur procurer par cette melodie

  • this is the best thing in the world

    by Pauline

  • OMG i'm like weeping with the memories...thank you.......

  • Glad to hear the Melodians and their perfect song, even if the OP did it by mistake.

  • @Andres0869 Whoever said I was from the UK?

  • @Andres0869 Did you read the info bar? No.. Can you yanks think once before speaking for change. Maybe half the world wouldn't despise you :) Thanks.

  • Most people that I speak to about Marley don't realize Bob was a God fearing man who also loved the Lord. Oh, Mr.Marley I'm happy to hear that you have reached Zion, I hope to see you soon beside the Lord my friend in Christ. Sing it Mr. Marley.

  • So nostalgic. I first heard this as a child. ♥

  • cool

  • pervasive babylon

  • HAHA THATS SO COOL PEEPOL TALK LIK DIS LIK DEY IS A RASSTA MAN YAAA MI LIKEE

  • this song is actually based on an old Jewish prayer

  • @HellaJihad yes we know... from the Israelites

  • @HellaJihad wtf are u talking about..its songs that jesus and the deciples sung.......

  • @1billion1deaths1 guess who was jewish...

  • @HellaJihad yea but ..more like a song sung to god..then a prayer..i guess it could be both. jesus and his group of deciples sung these songs..in the mountains..it says ther was a big storm..and dark clouds ugly weather that night..yet..in the middle of it all ther was peace and light...

  • notice he says zion as in tziyon yisrael (israel) not palastine !!!

    the bible has noooo mention of palastine the cathlic romans only called it philistine when they invaded israel !!

  • @MyArchie17

    I hate to nitpick but the bible is not a historical book, even if it would have mentioned palestine, that wouldn't be proof of anything because the lines he is quoting were written over 2000 years ago, by people who had no inclination to be politically correct. Out of curiosity, what is your point?

  • @avinoam0land Well I think the bible is a historical book but never mind and my point is Zion refers to the ancient holy land the people within called the Israelites and not the Philistines because there were nooo such people or indigenous population as the such. Subsequently i think its wrong when the palastinians talk about there indigenous population of that region (Zion) , when they are simply Jordanians and from other Islamic states.

  • @MyArchie17

    2000 years ago Nebuchadnezzar conquered Israel, he then took the Israelites and the clan of Jehuda, who were technically two different groups, and spread them around, he then took other peoples he conquered and placed them in Israel, which means that they spent 2000 years here, doesn't that make them indigenous? More importantly does that give us the right to waltz in and say: "I have a book that my ancestors wrote that says we live here, now fuck off!!"?

  • @avinoam0land yes because the israelites where the first people in that region canaan now u fuk off

  • @MyArchie17

    oooh, good comeback

  • rasta pharisees : the truth always gonna be stronger than a lie mon.

    jah rastafari e if ya know what i mean !

  • rasta pharisees

  • I listened to this song because I seen Bob's name in the heading. like many others, Bob is my hero, and he led me to God. this great man saved my soul (& possibly my life) 25 years after he passed. no one in my entire life had that POWER, & even in death Bob is still the MIGHTIEST dread. Eternal blessings to Bob, & all the rest of his fans . and thanks Jigga for the post. Forever lovin Bob, k

  • this is jimmy rasta

  • Bob Marley led me to Christ

  • @MrNorwegianPower That sucks.

  • @Somekid420 Read Tim White's biography of Bob Marley, first edition. At the end he tells the story of how Bob gave his heart to Christ on his death bed. There is also this link:

    All you have to do is Google: Bob Marley died a Christian

  • @ahopele I was refering to the picture on the video.....

  • I love this song

  • uh......this is not bob marley.....

  • @kellibelly1717 maybe you missed the title where it said Melodians.

  • @kellibelly1717

    it's bob marley but it's not him who had composed this song (it's Boney M but it was very bad) !!!!!

    +: sorry for my english but i'm french^^

  • @bigbigalexis Boney M did not compose this song, and this is not Bob Marley performing it. It is the Melodians, who both composed it AND are performing this version.

  • @bigbigalexis ,,sorry but boney m did not compose this song it was the melodians,,who compose and sang it ,,the boney m did it over

  • @sophiadowe amen

  • Psalm 137 so much meaning! Babylon = the center of injustice and vice...could be so many places today. After Judgement day and Babylon falls once more, rejoice

  • 1 dislike...what a loner.

  • Saint Bob, has a ring to it.....

  • this song is sad... but I just Love it...

  • bit loud

    

  • I find it fascinating that so many people find the lyrics beautiful, or wax lyrical over how poetic Psalm 137 is - but nobody actually finishes when they quote it.... could it be because the final line of the psalm is: Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the rock. Smash the babies. Yep, poetic.

  • @marcepanowekwiaty

    It is. If you want to quote the psalm do it right. right before that it says O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. "

    or pretty much "happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-

    he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."

    so yeah you're making it sound worse than it is.

  • @klucas0711 Riiiiight... because killing infants in retribution for their parents' transgressions TOTALLY makes it all right...

  • @marcepanowekwiaty

    pretty much "happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us-

    he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks."

    so yeah you're making it sound worse than it is. It's saying to someone, happy is he who repays you for what you've done, it's not about literally taking your own children and killing them, it's pretty much about justice/revenge because someone else is already doing that by taking them captive and whatnot.

  • I think Jimmy Cliff had songs in that movie The Harder They Come too.

  • Is that Medusa in the beginning or Bob Marley. Neither are in this song so what's up with that? This song is in the soundtrack of the movie The Harder They Come. This very cut of the song too.

  • hmmm look how the video ends at 4:20

  • This track is not Bob Marley and the Wailers it is a group by the name of the Melodians, know your music.

  • HE CAME, HE GAVE THE MESSAGE, HE WILL NEVER COME BACK.

  • @fishstory I hope you are talking about Bob Marley.

  • "Rivers of Babylon" is a rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970.

    It became popularized outside Jamaica by the 1978 Boney M. cover version.

    The Melodians' original versions of the song appeared in the sound track to the

    1972 movie The Harder They Come and the 1999 Nicolas Cage movie Bringing Out the Dead.

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  • Love the song and love bob marley, but you should know this song is not from him !

    The most popular version comes from Boney M, but this one is from The Melodians.

    It was played by many rasta groups, but Bob Marley did not retake it.

    He sang Chant Down Babylon, though. Different song.

    Have a nice day !

  • Is this one the original??

  • @MrYazzee  Yep

  • This is my favorite type of reggae music! there's also another song like this. It's called Engine 54. It's awesome too! go check! peace!

  • He died 29 years ago today (May 11, 1981) and still his music continues to grow in popularity to this day. It's nice to see that whatever was done to try and censor him and make him stop playing was unsuccessful. If any of you have seen I Am Legend, he talks about when some government agents came to Marley's house to hurt him so he couldn't play his concert the next day. But the next day he still played his concert. Well anyways if this isn't really his voice in this song he still wrote it.

  • this is not bob marley its jimmy cliff

  • My sons like this song. Psalm 137.

  • During Hebrews bondage

    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? Bible Psalm 137

    May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. Psalm 19:14

    Institute Of Human Cultivation

  • 4 minutes and 20 seconds. Irony.

  • @bigfatcatmovies lmao!

  • Q TAL MUSICA

  • nice

  • Psalm 137- I'm not part of any church, just believe in love, respect, and righteousness.

  • @cheapsilverware Right ON!

  • @cheapsilverware Right ON! Heaven does not wait for only those who congregate. In fact congregating is NOT a prerequsite for going to heaven.Living with the right moral and ethic bearing in life will get you there. The Lord had said "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Yet there is so much hating and belittling of one another. One love every one!

  • @cheapsilverware Believing and acting upon those believes are two different things. And no, I don't know you nor do I claim to. I'm just saying. :)

  • one of the best songs ever!!

    i'm so high!!!

  • stfu

  • are you sure it's bob i think it's the band is the Melodians

  • thank you! I'm relieved to see someone here who knows mr. marley's voice. It's very sad to see this going on...

  • yeah just a very good song so good for your brain

    PEACE

  • truhtfull lyrics!

  • nice... :D

  • more fyaaah for the king of kings Bob Marley

    PEACE

    sILa

  • Praise be to jah!

  • PEACE!!!

  • You do know that this is NOT Bob Marley correct? He never did this song...

  • yeah this is the melodians. im sure mr marley covered the jawn at one point tho

  • much better than Boney M

  • Thanks for posting. Very powerful. Isn't this the Melodians though?

  • Thanks for posting. Very powerful.

  • Big up Jigga, great dedication.

  • Big up mi brethren we will neva forget inaa we heart Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley (February 6, 1945 May 11 (1981)

    Blessings

    thay blockin cus of copyright !! Fyah!!

  • Bun youtube bout dem a try use copyright.....Yo Fyah if you have the tune "Simle Jamaica" By the great Bob Marley then please upload it fast fast fast please!

    Give thanks mi bredda !!!!!

  • I'm with you Fyah....

    Could not put it any better myself

    Robert Nesta Marley

    R.I.P.

    Blessings brothers

    ReggaeD

  • @firebladerr1 its breadbin..lol

  • a must play at every family party we have!

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