<P> 20th and 21st - century settings based on, or referring to, Psalm 137 include: </P> <Ul> <Li> Super flumina Babylonis (1916) for mixed choir and organ, by Jules Van Nuffel . </Li> <Li> In William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, a 1931 cantata, a version of the opening section is set to music, as if sung by the Israelite captives in Babylon . </Li> <Li> The second of the Two Psalms by Harry Partch (1901--1974) is "By the Rivers of Babylon", which he recorded in 1942 in a version for voice, chromelodeon and adapted viola . </Li> <Li> An English setting ("By the Rivers of Babylon") by David Amram (b . 1930), for solo soprano and SSAA choir (1969). </Li> <Li> "Rivers of Babylon", in part based on the opening verses of the Psalm, is a Rastafarian song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970 . It is featured in the 1972 film The Harder They Come and well known through its hit single 1978 rendition by Boney M. In 1992, the rock / reggae group Sublime released a live cover of the song on their 40oz. to Freedom album . </Li> <Li> The psalm was set, as On the Willows, in the Stephen Schwartz Broadway musical Godspell (1971). </Li> <Li> Don McLean covered Hayes's round as' Babylon', which was the final track on his 1971 album American Pie . Another cover of the round was featured at the end of the episode Babylon during the first season of Mad Men . </Li> <Li> Estonian composer Arvo Pärt composed An den Wassern zu Babel saßen wir und weinten in 1976 (revised 1984). </Li> <Li> In 1981, Herbert Sumsion composed In Exile, a motet for double choir on verses 1--6, premiered at the Gloucester Cathedral . </Li> <Li> It was the inspiration for Leonard Cohen's "By the Rivers Dark" on his 2001 album Ten New Songs . </Li> <Li> Psalm 137: 5--6 is the basis for the chorus of Matisyahu's single "Jerusalem" (2006). </Li> <Li> Psalm 137 is the central text of John Tavener's "Lament for Jerusalem--a mystical love song". </Li> <Li> The artist Fernando Ortega based the song "City of Sorrows" on Psalm 137 . </Li> <Li> "I Hung My Harp Upon the Willows" is a song by The Trashcan Sinatras about poet Robert Burns . </Li> <Li> It is referenced in The Mountain Goats' "September 15th 1983" off of Heretic Pride . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Super flumina Babylonis (1916) for mixed choir and organ, by Jules Van Nuffel . </Li> <Li> In William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, a 1931 cantata, a version of the opening section is set to music, as if sung by the Israelite captives in Babylon . </Li>

By the rivers of babylon there we sat down