Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon & El Lute 1981

Boney M. - Rivers of Babylon & El Lute 1981

1. Rivers of Babylon (1978)
By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Required from us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song
in a strange land

When the wicked
Carried us away in captivity
Requiering of us a song
Now how shall we sing the lord's song
in a strange land

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Let the words of our mouth
and the meditations of our heart
be acceptable in thy sight
here tonight

Let the words of our mouth
and the meditation of our hearts
be acceptable in thy sight
here tonight

By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down
ye-eah we wept,
when we remembered Zion.

By the rivers of Babylon,
there we sat down

2. El Lute (1979)
He was only nineteen
And he was sentenced to die
For something that somebody else did
And blamed on El Lute
Then they changed it to life
And so he could escape
From then on they chased him
And searched for him day and night
all over Spain
But the search was in vain for El Lute

He had only seen the dark side of life
The man they called El Lute
And he wanted a home just like you and like me
In a country where all would be free
So he taught himself to read and to write
It didn't help El Lute
He was one who had dared to escape overnight
They had to find El Lute

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