Pierre Bonhomme
(c.1555 - 1617)

Super flumina Babylonis
(S.S.A.A.T.T.B.B.)
Full score (PDF), €0.00 for unlimited copies   Download this item
Printable cover page (PDF), €0.00 for unlimited copies   Download this item

If you have any problem obtaining a PDF, please see our help page. If that does not resolve the issue, please click here.
Page 1 of 8
Creative Commons Licence
This work, Bonhomme : Super flumina Babylonis : scoreid 146754, as published by notAmos Performing Editions, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All relevant attributions should state its URL as https://www.notamos.co.uk/detail.php?scoreid=146754. Permissions beyond the scope of this licence may be available at https://www.notamos.co.uk/index.php?sheet=about.
From Melodiae sacræ... Auctore D Petro BonHomio, Frankfurt, 1603.
Lyrics: Psalm 137, v.1-4

Super flumina Babylonis illic sedimus et flevimus: dum recordaremur tui, Sion.
In salicibus in medio ejus suspendimus organa nostra:
quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, verba cantionum, et qui abduxerunt nos: Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis Sion.
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?