By the Waters of Babylon (Philip Hayes)

Music files

Editor: St. John's College Freshman Chorus (submitted 2019-03-14). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 123 kB Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: This version in Eb with three parts has been sung at St. John's College in Annapolis since the 1990s at least.

Title: By the Waters of Babylon
Composer: Philip Hayes
Lyricist: Psalm 137

Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: 3 equal voices
Genre: Sacred, Canon

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1786
Description: Originally printed in Bb as a four part round in Philip Hayes, The Muses Delight: Catches, Glees, Canzonets and Canons (London, 1786), p. 105.

English text

By the waters, the waters of Babylon,
We sat down and wept, and wept, and wept,
When we remember thee, remember thee, O Zion.