Примеры употребления для rivers of Babylon
1. They have never undergone the critical rehabilitation afforded their competitors Abba, which means their oeuvre‘s more outre aspects have been dwarfed by the memory of their two biggest hits, 1'78‘s double A–side Brown Girl in the Ring/ Rivers of Babylon and the Christmas number one Mary‘s Boy Child – still, respectively, the fifth and 10th best–selling singles in British chart history.
2. In the section on longings for the Land of Israel, for example, Psalm 137 is quoted, which opens with the words: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and we wept when we remembered Zion," but also features Arik Einstein‘s song "Yoshev B‘San Francisco Al Hamayim" (Sitting in San Francisco on the water). "It‘s hard to explain why this event moves me so much," says Kristal–Shalit.