The original English-language version of Babylon River is the former West German singing group Boney M.
Boney M was a highly visible disco-beat pop group in the 70s and 80s, with members coming from as far afield as the West Indies and Jamaica. The producer was Frank Flynn. Frank Farian.
Boney M may be new to you, but when it comes to "Babylon River," it's a tune you'll be able to hum. The song led to the "fashion whirlwind" of China's young generation in the late 1970s, and inspired the "bell-bottomed pants prom culture" of the era.
For young Chinese people more than 20 years ago, Boney M's songs were all too familiar. There were no discos back then, so young people who couldn't hold back their desire to have fun quietly danced to the melodies of "Babylon River" and "Daddy's Cool" played on their "Slate Brick" or double-speaker cassette recorders at home, which even led to the popularity of the "Black Light Balls It even led to the popularity of the "Black Light Ball.
Melody:
The music is extremely melodic and smooth, with a fast and furious rhythm. But when we with that relaxed, quiet, peaceful, flowing water-like music, imagine and recall the uprooted Jewish prisoners are in adversity, drifting in a foreign country, as if to see a picture of cruel and bleak scene. The people who are in a situation worse than death and in deep water are still pining for the brooks, green fields, ridges and the smell of rice in their hometowns.
The author of the music uses the comparison between heaven, the ideal country and the people who have left their home to contrast with the sadness of the people. Sitting on the banks of the Babylon River, the sad people seem to be sobbing.
O Babylon, you flow quietly, how peaceful the night is, but how do you know, just beside you, how desolate we persecuted strangers are, and may the Holy One also know our hearts, our prayers and meditations.