Giovanni Battista Locatello
(fl.1579 - 1593)

Super flumina Babylonis
(S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B.)
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Pub. Rome, 1614.
Lyrics: Psalm 137: v. 1-4

Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus, dum recordaremur tui, Syon.
In salicibus in medio eius suspendimus organa nostra:
quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum; et qui abduxerunt nos:
Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Syon.
Quomodo cantabimus canticum Domini in terra aliena?

By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept, when we remembered thee, O Sion.
As for our harps, we hanged them up upon the trees that are therein.
For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness:
Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?