Johann Sebastian Bach

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BWV 653
Title Beside the streams of Babylon
Composed 1708, Weimar
Key G-Major
Scoring

Organ

Movements Chorale
Category Chorales Leipzig manuscript
Event Lent
Author of text Wolfgang Dachstein, 1525
Text

Beside the streams of Babylon
Our weary vigil keeping
When we remember Zion yon,
We never cease from weeping.
We hang our harps, in our despair,
Upon the weeping willows there
And mourn our degradation.
All we hold dear our foes defame
And we must suffer slur and shame
In daily tribulation.

Manuscript Music library, Leipzig ; Protestant Publishing Institute, Berlin; Estate C. Ph. E. Bach

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