Don McLean - By the Waters of Babylon (audience sing-along) Live in Ireland, December 1975
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- Опубликовано: 6 янв 2021
- American singer-songwriter Don McLean live at the National Stadium in Dublin.
This Don McLean concert was recorded on 9 December 1975. During the show, he performs ‘By the Waters of Babylon’, a 17th-century song with words taken from Psalm 137, with the audience joining in the rendition.
The audience sounds like a choir! Truly beautiful ❣️
normal, it's Ireland !😉
Yes, I was just thinking how wonderful they sounded! Don was right - they sound better than they think they do. I love this!
@@MrPatbocoh yes, there are no more beautiful public singers than in Ireland 🇮🇪 or Wales 🏴 with respect from across the pond 🇺🇸
The Irish have a unique affinity for music. They appreciate the value of music in life My brother went to school in Maynooth for a year, and thoroughly enjoyed visiting his friends' homes, where often after supper, the young ones would pull out an instrument and entertain . He said they were quite good. He very much enjoyed that year.
GOD'S presence was there!
Ancient voices... Thank you.
A spiritual experience...
One of the best audience-involvement live songs I've ever heard. Gorgeous.
I agree. It sounds like a choir of Angels.
We laid down and and wept for Thee, Zion! Beautiful 😍
This man has an opera trained voice, his songwriting and singing, performing outstanding, and of course, all 'real music ' of the 70's... thank God, no auto tune cheaters here.
'opera trained voice' ... Wow, what??
@@saintsaens21 Yes you can read up on him (Don McClean) , notice his voice is so crisp &clear, and perfect , he was trained as opera level singing ( so is Katy Perry, Jewel, Carly Simon ) to name a few more!
@@1besieged I looked it up, and could find nothing on classical training on his Wikipedia. More importantly, there's no operatic sound at all, though his singing of course sounds fantastic. So not too sure what you're saying because of that.
@@ApplepieFTW Well, someone else told me this, there is a song, I do not know the name, it's a slow love song, I think called , ' Crying over you' if you listen to that you can tell he is not just an average singer talent - wise, well, maybe we shall dig deeper but ther person who told me was in band 7yrs and their band teacher probably informed them, could be heresay , or factual, by the way he sings, probably factual that he has opera training.
@@ApplepieFTW I don't know about Don McClean but in general, people trained in opera don't necessarily sound "operatic" when they're singing folks music. Rhiannon Giddens a good example: ruclips.net/video/wKTXJUYiAT4/видео.html
A powerful performance. Amazingly beautiful!
This performance with the audience gave me goose bumps. Maevelous.
There are other recordings of this performance and the theme is just the same. The crowd sounds like a choir. Like it was rehearsed! Can't get enough of it, truly,
@@trainier indeed
Transcendental.
Love this.
Didn't know a Banjo could sound and impact like that.
Perhaps it was because of the atrocities of October 7. We laid down and wept for thee, Zion 😢
Thanks for sharing this. In the winter of1974-75, my buddy and I, spending a year in Israel, performed this song for a full house at Kibbutz Regavim.
😂
Thats not too far away from me :D
Is there a recording of this?! I would like to hear any and every rendition of this song.
@@trainier Sadly, not of our performance.
This is a beautiful and quietly powerful video
Thank you, this is so important today. ❤
Beautiful.💕💕💕
Holy molly, that was magical, it's hard to believe my ears when I hear the public spot on like a profesional choir
Actually, the song was written in the late 1700's by the composer William Billings.
@@user-dk2sc2ck1yActually that’s not the point of her comment.
Beautiful song based on Psalm 137 and the exile from Judea to Babylon in 586 BCE. Evokes the deep attachment and yearning of the Jewish people to their ancient homeland.
有如清泉一般美麗的一首歌❤❤❤❤❤
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
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
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
and let the words of our mouth, and the mediation of our hearts, be acceptable in thy sight ! . Its king david psalm ,psalm 134 or 137 i dont remember the nr , but one of those 2 psalms it is
Don McLean is an American of Scottish-Italian heritage. Pretty cool that he could write such a powerful folk song for the Jewish people.
He also did Dreidel, one of my favorites of his.
I AM THINKING, LOVE 💘💕. THAT IS WHAT INSPIRED SINGER TO LEARN SONGS FROM OTHER RELIGIONS.
@@rosalindamartinez9634 You might enjoy an African hymn from Neil Diamond's "Tap Root Manuscript" called Missa.
@@indy_go_blue6048 I might enjoy it but I think I have never heard. Thank u for suggesting it. Have a good day and God bless u and keep u safe and sound.
It's a traditional song mostly taken from the Book of Psalms. It's about the Israelites during the Babylonian enslavement. Boney M did a great reggae version called Rivers of Babylon. Sublime covered it in the 90s
Yıllardır eskimeyen eskitemediğim…
Beautiful! So reminiscent of Pete Seeger's skill with an audience.
Haunting....
We remember.
Chills down my spine, very nice stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Rare stuff! Fantastic!
Beautiful!
Outstanding
That was beautiful!
Just beautifully simple
For all of my people ,soldiers,sitizins,the captured and in remembrance of my jonathan
citizens
Goosebumps!
thanks for putting this up…I don’t know how u sourced this man…the sound is just so deep
Bring Them Home!
Brano stupendo ! Esecuzione da brividi 🥰
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
Amazing live trio version
magical...
Wonderful!!!!
Mad men✨
I love the two young guys at 4:36 that would be me. By the way, I have read that this song, or hymn if you will, was the first American written, sung and recorded in a hymnal. Whatever, it's old, and it was not sung in Europe.
It really works well with a church congregation. Worship leaders should do more of this kind of activity song. It requires that the congregation respond. That is what I think the Bible when it says that we should "speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs and making melody in our hearts.
You should go to a Unitarian Universalist church some time. We sing rounds all the time. We love them.
@@maggienorris7833 But I am a Trinitarian and the rounds would just confuse me. Still, maybe I'll drop by for the experience!
Thank you so much! This treasure greatly assists and deepens into prayer, my lamentation over the fascistization of my country - the (dis)United States of America - and of other parts of the world, including Brazil. I have by no means given up the fight for democracy, but cruelty is surely having its day. This song helps me move through it, so as not to get stuck.
Pink Floyd's "On The Turning Away" helps
@@merlinstwin7373 Thank you so much! I listened for the first time to On the Turning Away , after I read your message. What a treasure of a song!
Where did this mega-rare clip come from ? Amazing
for Donald Draper
Who?
LoL! 😂
The lead character in the tv series Madmen! He was an Ad exec. And a ho-dog! Of course, not much clean comes out of Pedowood anymore!
Amen
Thank you so much
This is on a record somewhere where it will always play...
So beautiful! 😢 Oh, God of Israel your people cry out to You, for you alone are the almighty King of Kings and the only Lord of Lords.
Whitney was correct. Both renditions of this song touch my heart.
Beautiful.
😢
It came to my awareness through Mad Men.
I weep for Palestine too.
Psalm 137...
עַ֥ל נַהֲר֨וֹת ׀ בָּבֶ֗ל שָׁ֣ם יָ֭שַׁבְנוּ גַּם־בָּכִ֑ינוּ בְּ֝זׇכְרֵ֗נוּ אֶת־צִיּֽוֹן׃
By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion.
My heart is with the people of Israel. Love to them. GOD PROTECT THE HOSTAGES PLEASE.
This reminds me of the song “Holy Mountain” by System of a Down
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A group called Lamb did a great version of this song😔
Yes! Well done! Long live Israel!
also very interesting melodies for the Psalm of King David (was it psalm nr 134 ? or 137 ? )
Don Banjovi! (His joke, not mine!)
Don draper
Ооо
Sinead O'Connor
I was very softly singing this song to myself when a man who identified with the Black Panthers terrorist group suddenly hit me against the left side of my skull extremely hard. I was too shocked to think clearly on what to do 😢
They're smoking in the audience!
To all the people of Ukraine...
They are all going in hell looks like to mr.take it away man...I love this song for eternity....like in revelation 19:20-21... maybe they don't understand what im saying to them but oneday it will all come true
If you really want to understand what Zionism is then listen closely to this song and its haunting lyrics. It is a longing without equal to return to the homeland of the Jewish people following their expulsion after the fall of their lands at the hands of the Babylonian Empire. Now homeless in ancient Babylon the Jewish people sat and wept, and wept, and wept by the waters of Babylon for all that they had lost. And from this point, thousands of years ago, they repeated a prayer over the millennia, a vow to return to Jerusalem as a united people: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill, May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy. Remember, O LORD, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem's fall, those who said: 'Tear it down!'"
But few people, as evidenced by some of the comments in this section, understand what Don McClean's song is really about. Over the decades the Arab-Muslim world have made a mockery out of Zionism and have convinced the world that it is something to be derided. Nothing can be farther from the truth. Zionism is not about conquest, it is rather a longing for the ancestral homeland of the Jews after more than two thousand years of wandering this earth as a people, denied their homeland and paying the price for not having one.
McClean's song opens the heart more than any I have ever heard.