Lyres

I already posted this on FB, but "On the Willows", one of my favorite musical theater songs ever, is a reworking of Psalm 137, and I didn't really realize that until this week when I was preparing a Sunday School lesson over the psalms. What a beautiful song this is. I've loved it ever since I was a part of a Godspell production back in - whoa! - 1990!

Psalm 137 - The Mourning of the Exiles in Babylon

1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

On the Willows lyrics
On the willows, there
We hung up our lives
For our captors there
Require
Of us songs
And our tormentors mirth
On the willows, there
We hung up our lives
For our captors there
Require
Of us songs
And our tormentor's mirth
Saying, Sing us one
Of the songs of Sion
Sing us one
Of the songs of Sion
But how can we sing?
Sing the Lord's songs?
In a foreign land?