Babylon Is Fallen

Em

[Verse 1]
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Hail the day so long expected, hail the year of full release
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Zion’s walls are now erected, and their watch heads publish peace
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Through our child’s white dominion, hear the trumpet loudly roar

[Chorus]
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Babylon is fallen, it’s fallen, it’s fallen
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Babylon is fallen, it’ll rise no more

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
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All her merchants stand with wonder, what is this that comes to pass?
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Murmuring like the distant thunder, and crying ‘oh alas alas’
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Swell the sound you kings and nobles, priests and people rich and poor

[Chorus]
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Babylon is fallen, it’s fallen, it’s fallen
                         C       Em
Babylon is fallen, it’ll rise no more

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 3]
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Blow the trumpet on Mount Zion, for the kings are all brought down
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Who once ruled with rods of iron, and wore our fortunes on their crown
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Fables, garments we’ve rejected, and they’ll find us never more

[Chorus]
           Em
Babylon is fallen, it’s fallen, it’s fallen
                         C       Em
Babylon is fallen, it’ll rise no more

[Instrumental]
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[Verse 4]
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Like the river carves the valley, and the oak tree dulls the axe
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Like the moss tears down the palace, while the fallen turn to grass
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Like the storm’s distant warning, is but a ripple on the shore

[Chorus]
           Em
Babylon is fallen, it’s fallen, it’s fallen

Babylon is fallen, it’ll rise no more

[Outro]
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Babylon is fallen, it’s fallen, it’s fallen
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Babylon is fallen, it’ll rise no more