Continuing my theme of music on Fridays, I couldn’t get a song out of my head when I was thinking about this blog post. “Rivers of Babylon” is a song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of The Melodians in 1972, and popularized mainly by Boney M.’s cover version in 1978. Boney M.’s version is the most popular because of its Caribbean sound. Check out the totally 70’s music video complete with 1970’s camera work. The Boney M. version is even sung in churches.
The group, Barefoot Truth has a great version of it as well:
The lyrics are important. The lyrics are:
