I think this is the most perfectly choreographed closing sequence of a Mad Men episode -- the alienation of individuals on many levels and tying into Don's affair with the Jewish department store heiress.
This is one of the most powerful scenes in the entire Mad Men series. It offers a poignant summary point at many levels. The lyrics comes from the Hebrew Scriptures Psalm 137 depicting the Jews lamenting in exile by the rivers of Babylon. All the characters of Mad Men seem, in some sense, to be in their own exile. Despite wine, women, and song their lives are yearning for some lasting shalom that will return them to Jerusalem, the city of their past hopes both real and imagined.
I'm totally blown away by the obtuseness of internetlawman's interpretation. This scene is meant to underscore the exact opposite of Don Draper having achieved "clarity" and chosen "the right path." Just listen to the words of the song and think about the trajectory of Don's life over the course of the show from pretty much this point onward.
All of the scenes they showed was people longing for something that is never going to be. I think the song itself was selected because the main focus was on Don and Rachel, who herself was Jewish. I think it's really not that deep, just tying everything together.
my favorite scene in the entire series. Really resonated with me for where I was in life when I first watched this episode. I've never had a scene on television match up like that for me before or since.
One of my favorite scenes also; what completes it is that the traffic noise is played through the credits -- it really draws out the discomfort inherent in Joan and Roger standing on the curb, waiting for their respective rides. They won't acknowledge each other but they can't ignore each other either. Pure genius.
This "song" is a verse from Psalm 137. I recall it being sung by Don McLean in this version. Although it's not the only interpretation possible, the words of the Psalm are generally understood as a poignant expression of exile, alienation. Is that what these Mad Men scenes are about? Yes, could be... (not 100% sure). If the tune is simply used because it sounds touching or pious, somehow that's not good enough for me. It's more powerful when the music enhances the meaning of what I'm watching.
@jarabaa well it does. The music does exactly that jarabaa, earlier had a lot to do with the newly founded Israel who wanted to get a pr firm for them as a holiday destination. Don was researching for a theme to attrack the israelis, reading exodus (The book popular at the time not the bible version) and talking to the only jewish woman he seams to know(and desires greatly). It also dovetails beautifully with the utopia theme from earlier and the desire for more nothing is in this show byaccide
I just fell in love with this version of the song, it's beautiful with the montage of various characters being contemplative over their lives and desires. Like what Rachel said earlier about utopia being something that can never be.
From today's perspective it's worst thing. Don't lie to yourself. Child labour of XIX century doesn't affect your life in any way. It's first time you thought about it in last weeks. But continuous fall of society level that began in 60s, changes every day of your life.
Top comment is right. This video cuts it little earlier, but I want last frame of this episode, with Roger lighting a cigarette, and Joan looking at him, on my wall, as oil painting in Edward Hopper style.
I think what he's trying to say is the 50's and 60's featured a society that knew it was in transition, but didn't quite know to where. Here in the 21st century, we're looking at another transition. Bruce Sterling called the 2010s a transition to nowhere, where we get everything we ever wanted but didn't know we were going to dread it so much. Very much like in the 60's. Just a bit of history repeating.
@dionisio454 i think it's deeper than that. it's about people, not any one group. this isnt a show about the 60s, it's about the 21st century seen through a vintage lens
@dionisio454You say:"it's about people not any group" but during this specific episode one of the paralel stories unfolding is about an issue linked with israel, jews and israelis..anyway..and in the scene of the restaurant that the jewish woman sits with him there's a misunderstanding between them mainly because something todo with her jewish origin so this lyric about babilon is not brought upon at random..and it seems that he is touched abou the song and something within himself istransformed
Wow, this was a misleading ending. The montage gave the viewers the illusion that Don, and even some of the other characters, may have had some inner revelation, or had finally come to the realization of their true selves. then Boom! next episode starts and everything is essentially the same.
Even though this is so ar my favorite scene in the series, I wonder whther the director(s) only added the scene for 'artistic' purposes.
That's the beauty of the series. It (to me) shows the true struggles of self realization. I personally have instances in which I feel as though I've found clarity and the right path yet I wake up the next day and live as though I never had a revelation.
Just as Don or Roger seem to want something more in life and have moments in which they seem to realize it yet they continue to live an opposing life.
@OpieDJC Hm, interesting, i never looked at it from that perspective. I actually got a little frustrated because the series progressed so slowly. I stopped watching it after the end of season 3.
@OpieDJC That's very true. I don't think much of the audience realize what this show really is about. People watch it for men and women having affairs, some watch just for retro. Core of Mad Men is missing who you really are. Whatever Don accomplishes in his life he's never satisfied cuz he's actually looking for Dick who's long gone.
définitivement mon moment favori de tous les épisodes de Madmen . Atmosphere incroyable, et ça n'a rien à voir avec Zion ou l'Ïle aux enfants ou quoi que ce soit, c'est la sincérité de ces chanteurs juxtaposée à la décadence de l'Amérique des sixties qui produit cette émotion. Merci pour le post
@fntime so you read the ancient prayer, that's excellent! you just prayed with us and the millions of GOD loving people in this GOD's green earth. Best Of Luck My Friend!
@johnwsmith1 You are a farce and you don't even know it. Stop talk nonsense, you have as much connection with spirituality as a person buying a Big Mac. You have not broken out of your attachment to nonsense. God hates you more than I, do you know why? Play your stupid game, you are the worse of everyone who posts, because, they are cowardly, they've never tried to understand, but YOU, are a poser, a weak submissive who doesn't know which end is up. How about this, go fuck yourself!
@fntime now, now, now my friend. it seems like you need to take a cold shower to wash and gurgle away those filthy words coming from your mouth and skin. or better yet GET A LIFE. DUMB ASS.
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People. Please. Yes, Canada sucks. A known universal truth. Inherited from a greater cultural phenomenon, France sucking.
The surrendering and D-bagery from the French over the years has gotten them a certain sentiment, globally. The concept of French-Canadian doomed Canada before it even got started.
So, Draper allows his Cynic side to trump his inner Artist here. C vs A with Don is a driving theme on the show. He's come far since - he now understands the importance of collaboration.
@beansix I put your observation of 'Zion as home- no matter how unromantic' in the profound category. And perhaps in spite of the tribal primitiveness throughout much of the Old Testament, it's this spirit of yearning to return home that gives it universal appeal.
The final shot of Roger and Joan on the street is absolutely gorgeous--like an Edward Hopper painting...and the fact that the street is sloped in Roger's direction can't be a coincidence...
funtime----"AMERICANS call CANADIANS 'SHIT FACE...because they are shit???" Good Lord, please don't speak on behalf of America...my America doesn't call Canadians "shit"---YOU DO! The anger that some people carry with them is terribly sad. Lumping people into one category is one of the most childish and ignorant things, that unfortunately, a lot of people do----good and bad in everyone...off my soap-box now.
@finleyfaw Not by David, since the Jews went into exile in Bablylon long after David's reign. But by a Psalmist, for sure. I saw this episode last night--I had seen Season 1 but hadn't remembered the song at the end. The last scene was wonderfully evocative, but of what? Alienation? Disconnect? Exile (self-imposed)? All of those things?
Hey there -- This is an absolutely gorgeous montage. Brilliant use of the old tune. For those who are asking, the music is actually a round by 18th C Boston composer William Billings -- who may have written it to lament the British occupation of Boston during the American Revolutionary War.
Poor old Billings doesn't get enough credit for his lovely tune.
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You are correct. People in New England sang a song of lament, because so many English Loyalist & traitors to the 13 colonies escaped into Canada, the land of 'servants',cowards & degenerates. Many New Englanders had Canadian scalps on their barn. Whenever we met a Canadian in the old days,we beat him or her, and then locked them in the outhouse, until they promised to leave America & return to the 'toilet' of Canada. They smell of shit & are mostly homo's and thieves.
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I smell the blood of a faggy Canadian. Look, you're Canadian,that means a lot of things,no honor,no courage,small IQ, small gay penis,low income,low opportunities. Canadians want Americans to be losers like them.Canadians are the ward, of the English Crown.They're servants, they obey & hate Americans we don't obey,we kick your masters out of our country.Canadians could have pride &balls, but the prefer,being servants. Nietzche's slave morality is still alive in Canada.
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I'll speak in your lingo, ahhh! You are Canadian, which in USA, means shit! Americans call Canadians, 'Shit face', why? Because they are shit, that is a scientific fact. Canadians are servants of the NWO, they lack a national identity, even Marshall McLuhan said that.....Canadians are a result of a scientic experiment, breeding imbiciles with donkeys, unfortunately they are less capable & intelligent than both. Many Americans beat Canadians for exercise. Canadians love it!
You have the brains of a shallot and are an embarrassment to your country. I bet your last name is not even of British derivation, meaning you are not even descended from the Colonists. How proud the Founding Fathers would be to know that their dream has deteriorated so far it now has you as a representative.
Bet you can't reply in anything other than English. That must make you gag. I makes me laugh. I'll allow you the last word - in English - as I have a life to get on with.
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Truth hurts, doen't it. You descended from 'Cannuck slaves'. You probably are unaware that the 'creatures' that inhabit Shitland, I mean Canada, where orginally slaves in Mexico, up to 1829. The Mexican Exclusion Act, didn't free the Cannucks, just threw them out of Mexico. Mexicans hate Canadians, because they couldn't be trained to be good slaves, but they were on balance, child molesters and homo 'rapist'. You are a shitbird, never question an American and a pervert!
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Yes they are! Americans laugh at Canadians, but so do Native Americans & Inuits. Everyone hates Canadians,the French in the land know as 'Canada' want independence from these dogs. Part of the problem is Canadian women. They are mostly mentally ill lesbians who screw the country and want to rule Canadian men. Which is OK with with most American,but we refuse to live by your lesbian agenda. Almost every American has killed a lesbian Canadian,it's an act of 'passage'.
At the end of the original five books of the old testament, their temple is destroyed and the Jews are sent to wander the Earth without a country. That's what it's about.
@lighthog Sorry for being a stickler on a kind of irrelevant point, but after the rule of thejudges, the reigns of Saul, David and Solomon and a succession of mostly bad kings, the Jews were conquered and sent into exile in Babylon. Eventually, they returned to their homeland, only to have their temple destroyed again, many years later (70 AD, to be exact) by the Romans.
The album American Pie features a version of Psalm 137, entitled Babylon, and arranged by Don McLean and Lee Hays (of The Weavers). Boney M would have a number one hit in the UK with this song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, although the two renditions are so different it is not immediately noticeable that they are versions of the same song.
Boney M's song doesn't even have the same lyrics. They're pretty much two seperate songs with the same name and are based off of the same passage from the bible.
Taken from Psalms 137, the lyrics, which are about longing for Zion, are appropriate for this episode. While Don's encounter with the overly pragmatic Israeli tourism executives, or his conversation right before this scene, did little to threaten the notions guiding his capitalistic and hedonistic lifestyle, his discussion with Ms. Menken about Zion, which can be understood as a discourse on a possible meaning in life, appears to have moved him. Roger, on the other hand, is happy in Babylon.
I can't name the suite from the Conan movie, but Basil lives!
yosoybangoo 3 days ago
Without this song, reggae wouldn't exist.
newweaponsdc 1 week ago
I think this is the most perfectly choreographed closing sequence of a Mad Men episode -- the alienation of individuals on many levels and tying into Don's affair with the Jewish department store heiress.
TheMikeCrystal 3 weeks ago
One of my favorite scenes from the whole series. Superb!
ajcarrillos 3 weeks ago
This is one of the most powerful scenes in the entire Mad Men series. It offers a poignant summary point at many levels. The lyrics comes from the Hebrew Scriptures Psalm 137 depicting the Jews lamenting in exile by the rivers of Babylon. All the characters of Mad Men seem, in some sense, to be in their own exile. Despite wine, women, and song their lives are yearning for some lasting shalom that will return them to Jerusalem, the city of their past hopes both real and imagined.
flashgordon5555 1 month ago 4
I'm totally blown away by the obtuseness of internetlawman's interpretation. This scene is meant to underscore the exact opposite of Don Draper having achieved "clarity" and chosen "the right path." Just listen to the words of the song and think about the trajectory of Don's life over the course of the show from pretty much this point onward.
DrLakewood16 1 month ago
I love this show and this song!
hilalkapkac 1 month ago
This shows incredible
soccerchick2333 2 months ago
Who are the guys singing it in this version? I like it the best!
Tripp9 2 months ago
All of the scenes they showed was people longing for something that is never going to be. I think the song itself was selected because the main focus was on Don and Rachel, who herself was Jewish. I think it's really not that deep, just tying everything together.
supergnc 2 months ago
manny pacquio on lead guitar!
snipeyoass420 3 months ago 2
my favorite scene in the entire series. Really resonated with me for where I was in life when I first watched this episode. I've never had a scene on television match up like that for me before or since.
Accipiter22 3 months ago 3
sounds like fleet foxes
BItChSlaP1o1 4 months ago
Waters* of Babylon
hfrancoe 4 months ago 2
One of my favorite scenes also; what completes it is that the traffic noise is played through the credits -- it really draws out the discomfort inherent in Joan and Roger standing on the curb, waiting for their respective rides. They won't acknowledge each other but they can't ignore each other either. Pure genius.
skiepk 4 months ago 3
my favorite scene in the whole series
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deli1petro 4 months ago
i use to rewind this moment just to hear that song over and over again, even recorded it with my phone just to keep hearing it
blamaxwell 5 months ago
@blamaxwell you can get it from torrenting, or record it off the video with freecorder
Accipiter22 3 months ago
Do viewers know what Draper is thinking during this scene? He looks like he's coming to a decision.
Jlongtors0 5 months ago
Really beautiful song.
BenTheMagnifice 5 months ago
I love it when watching a television show or movie and something comes out towards the end that just moves you. This was great. Great job Madmen!
Nitzer69 5 months ago
I love that lasst shot. This isn't good television, this is good filmmaking.
TwistedGentleman 5 months ago
who sing this version?
nuke018 5 months ago
You're a total genius for uploading this sequence. It's my favourite from the entire show and has haunted me since I first saw it.
Much appreciated.
jmanmootches 5 months ago
best tv show ever
onderf1 6 months ago
Çok süper şarkı benden Mert Çalap'a hediye gelsin bu iyi ki doğdun Çalo !! Hep beraber nice mutlu senelere inşallah :D
erudemu 6 months ago
This "song" is a verse from Psalm 137. I recall it being sung by Don McLean in this version. Although it's not the only interpretation possible, the words of the Psalm are generally understood as a poignant expression of exile, alienation. Is that what these Mad Men scenes are about? Yes, could be... (not 100% sure). If the tune is simply used because it sounds touching or pious, somehow that's not good enough for me. It's more powerful when the music enhances the meaning of what I'm watching.
jarabaa 6 months ago 3
@jarabaa well it does. The music does exactly that jarabaa, earlier had a lot to do with the newly founded Israel who wanted to get a pr firm for them as a holiday destination. Don was researching for a theme to attrack the israelis, reading exodus (The book popular at the time not the bible version) and talking to the only jewish woman he seams to know(and desires greatly). It also dovetails beautifully with the utopia theme from earlier and the desire for more nothing is in this show byaccide
daithidrennan 6 months ago
@jarabaa god bless you
JustinFukinWest 1 month ago
I just fell in love with this version of the song, it's beautiful with the montage of various characters being contemplative over their lives and desires. Like what Rachel said earlier about utopia being something that can never be.
Who is it who sings this version?
AuburnRed1 7 months ago
WHERE CAN I FIND THE ORIGINAL OF THIS SONG
Pransterrr 7 months ago
Jesus fucking Christ, this is an amazing scene.
With my two cents, we are all separated from what we want, but not only do we not know how to get it, we don't even know what it is.
Princesspony252 7 months ago 2
@Princesspony252 Best explanation for this scene here.
ShakeebAhmad1989 5 months ago
One of my favorite scenes in all of Mad Men.
Gaffas93 8 months ago
i have swimmed in the two rivers before ! :D
shagrath559 9 months ago
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@LJ3rd
From today's perspective it's worst thing. Don't lie to yourself. Child labour of XIX century doesn't affect your life in any way. It's first time you thought about it in last weeks. But continuous fall of society level that began in 60s, changes every day of your life.
Wombananaz 9 months ago
Top comment is right. This video cuts it little earlier, but I want last frame of this episode, with Roger lighting a cigarette, and Joan looking at him, on my wall, as oil painting in Edward Hopper style.
Tollaneri 9 months ago
Thumbs up if Sublime's version of Rivers of Babylon brought you here, only to wish you hadn't
slap690 9 months ago
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dis is gay
mrhogie10 10 months ago
I think what he's trying to say is the 50's and 60's featured a society that knew it was in transition, but didn't quite know to where. Here in the 21st century, we're looking at another transition. Bruce Sterling called the 2010s a transition to nowhere, where we get everything we ever wanted but didn't know we were going to dread it so much. Very much like in the 60's. Just a bit of history repeating.
LJ3rd 10 months ago
@LJ3rd
Biggest problem is that this "60s transition" of modern societies was worst thing that happened to humanity in last 200 years.
Wombananaz 9 months ago
@Wombananaz
Worse than children working factories in Victorian England? I think you need to read some real history books and get some perspective.
LJ3rd 9 months ago
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Wombananaz 9 months ago
I AM FROM BABYLON
PuRPLeTuTa 10 months ago
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what can i do for this??
phantom10900 11 months ago
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phantom10900 11 months ago
Such a beautiful song and such a great series
Repko87 11 months ago
Is this scene supposed to make him more sensitive about jews, israel or what? to make him rethink a subtle antisemitism shown during this episode?
dionisio454 11 months ago
@dionisio454 i think it's deeper than that. it's about people, not any one group. this isnt a show about the 60s, it's about the 21st century seen through a vintage lens
loggats 11 months ago 17
@dionisio454You say:"it's about people not any group" but during this specific episode one of the paralel stories unfolding is about an issue linked with israel, jews and israelis..anyway..and in the scene of the restaurant that the jewish woman sits with him there's a misunderstanding between them mainly because something todo with her jewish origin so this lyric about babilon is not brought upon at random..and it seems that he is touched abou the song and something within himself istransformed
dionisio454 11 months ago
What do you mean when you say through a "vintage lens"?
dionisio454 11 months ago
This is, by far, the best ever scene of Mad Men ! perfect, nothing less than this...
claudiogds 11 months ago
maggie siff aka rachel menken katz is on sons of anarchy now!! she plays tara. she's a g for real. joan & roger should be together.
anyway love this song. so biblical lol
cche16 1 year ago
Masterpiece, (a diegetic masterpiece to boot!). Fine art of our time (not the sixties btw)
pleximold 1 year ago 2
This song is incredible. Any idea who does this version?
Someone deserves an Emmy for this scene! What the actors say with their eyes, and the editing, are thrilling - and heartbreaking - to watch!
jondoe8889 1 year ago
liar
gregryf 1 year ago
yes i agree your a fuking twat, wasting my time arsehole
TheCanalCarpMan 1 year ago
wtf was that all i got was adverts?.
TheCanalCarpMan 1 year ago
Wow, this was a misleading ending. The montage gave the viewers the illusion that Don, and even some of the other characters, may have had some inner revelation, or had finally come to the realization of their true selves. then Boom! next episode starts and everything is essentially the same.
Even though this is so ar my favorite scene in the series, I wonder whther the director(s) only added the scene for 'artistic' purposes.
InternetLawman 1 year ago
@InternetLawman
That's the beauty of the series. It (to me) shows the true struggles of self realization. I personally have instances in which I feel as though I've found clarity and the right path yet I wake up the next day and live as though I never had a revelation.
Just as Don or Roger seem to want something more in life and have moments in which they seem to realize it yet they continue to live an opposing life.
OpieDJC 1 year ago 51
@OpieDJC Hm, interesting, i never looked at it from that perspective. I actually got a little frustrated because the series progressed so slowly. I stopped watching it after the end of season 3.
YoungZer0 9 months ago
@OpieDJC What an accurate and sensitive appreciation of the series. That's the beauty of Mad Men.
bluecore 7 months ago
@OpieDJC That's very true. I don't think much of the audience realize what this show really is about. People watch it for men and women having affairs, some watch just for retro. Core of Mad Men is missing who you really are. Whatever Don accomplishes in his life he's never satisfied cuz he's actually looking for Dick who's long gone.
Mr4everBaller 1 month ago
where can i find the notes for this song?!?!?!
guykeller1 1 year ago
This was the moment I realized that this is the greatest tv show ever made...
xenon11 1 year ago
I like women with a big round bum. Christy fills that bill, her "beautiful bottom runeth over"--yum!
chuckbuckbobuck 1 year ago
this is not "rivers of babylon" (another song), it's "Babylon" originally (I think) by Don McLean
garpgarp888 1 year ago
i like his look in 1:04 :)
samysk8 1 year ago
I don't care what anyone says that Christina Hendricks is HOT!!!!!!!!! Weight or no weight she is HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
chuckbuckbobuck 1 year ago
@chuckbuckbobuck Weight? :I
Landliebelexikon 1 year ago
définitivement mon moment favori de tous les épisodes de Madmen . Atmosphere incroyable, et ça n'a rien à voir avec Zion ou l'Ïle aux enfants ou quoi que ce soit, c'est la sincérité de ces chanteurs juxtaposée à la décadence de l'Amérique des sixties qui produit cette émotion. Merci pour le post
MrPatboc 1 year ago
We Americans will also never reach Zion. Paradise is unobtainable, so we will always remain in Babylon.
SagaciousSilence 1 year ago
WHERE CAN I FIND THIS VERSION?!
toastednoodles 1 year ago 2
@toastednoodles no kidding
hush3r 1 year ago
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great song, really great
kallcett 1 year ago
This is the most beautiful song! Can you buy the soundtrack or something? Where can I download this? Please tell me if anyone knows :D
EnterprisePhantom 1 year ago
@EnterprisePhantom I don't know about this version, but you can buy a Don Mclean version on itunes :)
RebeckaRowan 1 year ago
@RebeckaRowan thank you much :]
EnterprisePhantom 1 year ago
is this an actual song i could download somehow?
thechickenpicker 1 year ago
@thechickenpicker It's on the Mad Men season 1 soundtrack, should be on iTunes as well.
mangabuddy 1 year ago 2
An Ancient Prayer....
God be in my head, and in my understanding.
God be in my eyes, and in my looking.
God be in my mouth, and in my speaking.
God be in my heart, and in my thinking.
God be in mine end, and at my departing.
johnwsmith1 1 year ago 3
@johnwsmith1 Are you dying?
If you are, I'm sorry for you, but if
you are a canadian, GOOD!.
fntime 1 year ago
@fntime so you read the ancient prayer, that's excellent! you just prayed with us and the millions of GOD loving people in this GOD's green earth. Best Of Luck My Friend!
johnwsmith1 1 year ago
fntime 1 year ago
@fntime now, now, now my friend. it seems like you need to take a cold shower to wash and gurgle away those filthy words coming from your mouth and skin. or better yet GET A LIFE. DUMB ASS.
johnwsmith1 1 year ago
@johnwsmith1 Thank you, for exposing your real nature!
How about you and me meet, do you want a broken jaw
or concussion. I didn't say I would kick you in the balls
because you lifemate begged not to fuck you up!
But you deserve it.
Funny how 'god' left your phony bs.
You aren't worth a dime, because your prick.
fntime 1 year ago
@fntime sure i'll meet you at the White House! or the Capitol. or i know, the Arlington Cemetery where you rest in pieces.
johnwsmith1 1 year ago
@johnwsmith1 you're a twat
sammagpie 1 year ago
@sammagpie now you just mentioned your middle name of your mother. how do you do?
johnwsmith1 1 year ago
@johnwsmith1 that doesnt make sense you idiot
sammagpie 6 months ago
@johnwsmith1 fuck you're a god bothering spastic, stop preaching your gay imaginary friend to everyone
sammagpie 5 months ago
I kinda miss Rachel Menken.
johnandjanice 1 year ago
who's crying now?!
abeeerrr 1 year ago
you are correct - For David - by Jeremiah.
finleyfaw 1 year ago
beautful.............
prepastedtoothbrush 1 year ago
"We'll go right after this"... the stare lmao.
southerndandy89 1 year ago
go back to the Melodians and do not pass go and do not collect 200 euros you stupid motherfucking illiterate apes
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phantom10900 1 year ago
@phantom10900 More than likely YouTube itself blocked sharing in order not to get sued.
tejaswoman 1 year ago
you haven't cos I shared it on facebook and it says you disabled embedding.
ANDROMEDAKRAKEN 1 year ago
stunning scene
Cyrilthemonkey 1 year ago
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this is clearly child porn
roselicker 1 year ago
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this is clearly child porn
roselicker 1 year ago
The clip of Betty and Sally having some girl-bonding time fills me with an odd joy. There is so little of this in the series.
Longtaillover 1 year ago 6
@Longtaillover
Well it's hard when Betty is, well if you've seen the later Seasons you'd get it.
TwistedGentleman 1 year ago
allusion to Bob Dylan....
estherr0 1 year ago
The singer in this clip is named Eugene Edwards.
cakeab 2 years ago 6
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You sellout ass hole, F these ads!
anticlimatic21 2 years ago
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People. Please. Yes, Canada sucks. A known universal truth. Inherited from a greater cultural phenomenon, France sucking.
The surrendering and D-bagery from the French over the years has gotten them a certain sentiment, globally. The concept of French-Canadian doomed Canada before it even got started.
So, Draper allows his Cynic side to trump his inner Artist here. C vs A with Don is a driving theme on the show. He's come far since - he now understands the importance of collaboration.
dalovindj 2 years ago
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francislabutte 2 years ago
"France sucking" you must be incredibly intelligent to describe a country with two words ! i just have one to describe you "worthless"
francislabutte 2 years ago 4
@dalovindj
Seriously? Come on!
peterduyf 2 years ago
What has what you are saying to do with anything? No conection to the vid what so ever.
Prowsky 2 years ago
Don is "weeping" ,perhaps, for his own Zion - his childhood in another place with another name. Zion is home - no matter how unromantic.
Roger appears completely vacant. Not lost, not he is unselfconsciously at home in NYC . Surely the new Babylon and Roger the new Babylonian.
beansix 2 years ago 4
@beansix I put your observation of 'Zion as home- no matter how unromantic' in the profound category. And perhaps in spite of the tribal primitiveness throughout much of the Old Testament, it's this spirit of yearning to return home that gives it universal appeal.
coyotesong 1 year ago
The final shot of Roger and Joan on the street is absolutely gorgeous--like an Edward Hopper painting...and the fact that the street is sloped in Roger's direction can't be a coincidence...
castaway50 2 years ago 82
@castaway50 That's probably why they backed-up the camera angle, which they didn't do when Joan walked out.
4midfielder 1 year ago
funtime----"AMERICANS call CANADIANS 'SHIT FACE...because they are shit???" Good Lord, please don't speak on behalf of America...my America doesn't call Canadians "shit"---YOU DO! The anger that some people carry with them is terribly sad. Lumping people into one category is one of the most childish and ignorant things, that unfortunately, a lot of people do----good and bad in everyone...off my soap-box now.
SHRINA17 2 years ago 5
What's the beef against Canadians....I'm a bit confused?!
SHRINA17 2 years ago
could you PLEASE enable embedding? i'd like to share this with everyone i know
4zion4life 2 years ago 6
i enabled embedding..you can share it.
phantom10900 2 years ago 3
nope still not embedding (
4zion4life 2 years ago
This song is chilling
WalmartXXX 2 years ago 2
this an excellent show and this just brings it to full circle
monkeymanNr1 2 years ago 2
this song is strange and emotional its one of the songs that you can feel and the emotion with or without it's lyrics
monkeymanNr1 2 years ago 2
Are you talking about the words? It was written by King David - Psalm 137.
finleyfaw 2 years ago
@finleyfaw Not by David, since the Jews went into exile in Bablylon long after David's reign. But by a Psalmist, for sure. I saw this episode last night--I had seen Season 1 but hadn't remembered the song at the end. The last scene was wonderfully evocative, but of what? Alienation? Disconnect? Exile (self-imposed)? All of those things?
idolfan9495 1 year ago
@idolfan9495 - you are correct - it was for David - by Jeremiah.
finleyfaw 1 year ago
@idolfan9495 Eternal longing?
coyotesong 1 year ago
Don McLean FTW.
Just listen to the music and the emotion it creates in your heart and forget everyone else...
This isn't about opinions...it's about emotion. YOUR emotions. Nothing more. Humble yourself.
wconditi 2 years ago
what the hell are you criticizing this beautiful song for "condi"
Dadutta 2 years ago
Who's criticizing the song?
wconditi 2 years ago
Hey there -- This is an absolutely gorgeous montage. Brilliant use of the old tune. For those who are asking, the music is actually a round by 18th C Boston composer William Billings -- who may have written it to lament the British occupation of Boston during the American Revolutionary War.
Poor old Billings doesn't get enough credit for his lovely tune.
This scene was amazing. Thanks for posting!
-- mta
nostalgicmodernist 2 years ago 17
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It's from the Bible, actually, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the British occupation of Boston.
beautifulmike 2 years ago
The music, not the lyrics, were written by Billings. The lyrics are taken from the Psalms. Billings was a church-music composer. Sorry I was unclear.
mta
nostalgicmodernist 2 years ago 6
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fntime 2 years ago
Fee Fi Fo Fum,
I see a post of a Troll. Dumb.
infernocanuck 2 years ago 5
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fntime 2 years ago
Please use another language. English is not for you.
leaningoak 2 years ago
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fntime 2 years ago
You have the brains of a shallot and are an embarrassment to your country. I bet your last name is not even of British derivation, meaning you are not even descended from the Colonists. How proud the Founding Fathers would be to know that their dream has deteriorated so far it now has you as a representative.
Bet you can't reply in anything other than English. That must make you gag. I makes me laugh. I'll allow you the last word - in English - as I have a life to get on with.
leaningoak 2 years ago
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fntime 2 years ago
@fntime seriously; you should... I don' even know what you should do to end your misery.
ANARKOTEROR 1 year ago
@ANARKOTEROR Well if you want to help, how
about you stick a hose up the ass of 1 million
canadians and make them pee on the rest
of the canadians, the smell would be an
improvement.
fntime 1 year ago
I bet Americans are proud of you.
leaningoak 2 years ago
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fntime 2 years ago
@nostalgicmodernist It is Psalm 137, which has been set to music by many composers since the sixteenth century.
couldcause 11 months ago
does anyone know who these three musicians are?
mbraendlein 2 years ago
I think this is my favorite scene in the entire series - makes my breath catch every time I watch it...
msmadgirl 2 years ago
I believe the music is written by Don McLean and appears on his American Pie album.
flameworker321 2 years ago
This type of music is this, the name of genre, with country it comes from? (haha hard to ask in english) Thx for answers :)
whenjohnfalldown 2 years ago
What type*
whenjohnfalldown 2 years ago
It's a traditional jewish folk song.
At the end of the original five books of the old testament, their temple is destroyed and the Jews are sent to wander the Earth without a country. That's what it's about.
lighthog 2 years ago
Thx for answer :)
whenjohnfalldown 2 years ago
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idolfan9495 1 year ago
@lighthog Sorry for being a stickler on a kind of irrelevant point, but after the rule of thejudges, the reigns of Saul, David and Solomon and a succession of mostly bad kings, the Jews were conquered and sent into exile in Babylon. Eventually, they returned to their homeland, only to have their temple destroyed again, many years later (70 AD, to be exact) by the Romans.
idolfan9495 1 year ago
for the best rivers of babylon check out the melodians
ggaden 2 years ago
Nice...........moving.
rdreid79 2 years ago
Nice........very moving.
rdreid79 2 years ago
Nice, but the title is not Rivers of Babylon, but "By the waters of Babylon". Rivers of Babymon is a completely different song.
tricota251976 2 years ago
Heh, the title is actually just "Babylon".
DanaVMBVSDDM 2 years ago
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kishke1 2 years ago
The dude in the suit behind the main singer looks like a ghost.
StarKrazzo 2 years ago
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firavun13 2 years ago
süper ya hu mad men carismasın donald baba ;)
blackcenk34 2 years ago
Well it's obviously not the song that is the important part, but you wouldn't know that because you're a dumbass.
Ontherocks98 2 years ago
Butiful song...
Is this biblical?
Jewish folk?
kork1986 2 years ago
Psalms 137 I believe.:)
rdreid79 2 years ago
One of the best episode which ends with this simple but so powerful song...just tears me up inside.
"By the waters, the waters, of Babylon.
We lay down and wept, and wept, for thee Zion.
We remember thee, remember thee, remember thee Zion."
xcalibur69 3 years ago 3
Excelente canción y el video no tiene igual. Simplemente la música, la letra y el video te llevan de la mano de la situación que están viviendo.
micientotrece 3 years ago
great song fell in love with instantly
jazzlady40 3 years ago
The album American Pie features a version of Psalm 137, entitled Babylon, and arranged by Don McLean and Lee Hays (of The Weavers). Boney M would have a number one hit in the UK with this song in 1978 under the title Rivers of Babylon, although the two renditions are so different it is not immediately noticeable that they are versions of the same song.
diablul 3 years ago
Boney M's song doesn't even have the same lyrics. They're pretty much two seperate songs with the same name and are based off of the same passage from the bible.
Galefox 3 years ago 2
Thanks so much for posting this! I was just looking for the lyrics to "that neat song from Mad Men" but this is much better!
OonaCanute 3 years ago
Taken from Psalms 137, the lyrics, which are about longing for Zion, are appropriate for this episode. While Don's encounter with the overly pragmatic Israeli tourism executives, or his conversation right before this scene, did little to threaten the notions guiding his capitalistic and hedonistic lifestyle, his discussion with Ms. Menken about Zion, which can be understood as a discourse on a possible meaning in life, appears to have moved him. Roger, on the other hand, is happy in Babylon.
LateMaybe 3 years ago 24
Tevrat Mezmurlar 137 Melodi D. McLean
Babil ırmakları kıyısında oturup Siyon'u andıkça ağladık;
Kavaklara Lirlerimizi astık.
Çünkü orada bizi tutsak edenler bizden ezgiler, Bize zulmedenler bizden şenlik istiyor, "Siyon ezgilerinden birini okuyun bize!" diyorlardı.
Nasıl okuyabiliriz RAB'bin ezgisini el toprağında?
Ey Yeruşalayim (Kudus), seni unutursam, Sağ elim kurusun.Seni anmaz, Yeruşalayim'i en büyük sevincimden üstün tutmazsam, Dilim damağıma yapışsın!
haymi 3 years ago