Response: IF ME FORGET YOU-rt, GO-AHEAD CAUSE ME MUTE.

AFTER THEY-lf FORCE US LEAVE ISRAEL, WE SIT CLOSE-TO B-A-B-Y-L-O-N ITS-lf RIVER.
HAPPEN WE REMEMBER TEMPLE MOUNTAIN, WE CRY.
GIVE-UP SING. OUR HARP WE HANG-ON TREES, LEAVES leaves-DROOP. Response

BUT THOSE-lf CAPTURE US WANT KNOW OUR SONGS.
PEOPLE TAKE-HOLD-OF OUR LAND ENCOURAGE US GO-AHEAD JUMP-FOR-JOY.
THEY-lf SAY, (role play) COME-ON SING ABOUT TEMPLE. (end role play) Response

SING ABOUT THE-rt LORD FOREIGN LAND, HOW? IMPOSSIBLE.
IF ME FORGET YOU-ctr, JERUSALEM, GO-AHEAD CAUSE MY RIGHT HAND CRIPPLED. Response

IF JERUSALEM NO-MORE MY TOP JOY,
AND FORGET YOU-ctr, GO-AHEAD CAUSE ME MUTE. Response

Notes: ME - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

GO-AHEAD - (2h)[B^ dot], POs ><, FOs away, move forward in a jerk.

CAUSE - (2h)[S] are held at the chest as if holding a rope and move forward while opening to (2h)[5]. For a QuickTime movie of this sign, see ASL browser - cause.

MUTE - Palmar surface of [A] strikes mouth.

TEMPLE - T-CHRUCH.

leaves-DROOP - (2h)[5], POs > back, FOs down, hands descend and body acts as if a tree with drooping brances.

CAPTURE - ARREST, that is, [5] closes on NDH index finger, PO > DS, FO up.

TAKE-HOLD-OF - (2h)[5:], POs away, FOs up, move down quickly and close to (2h)[S], POs down, FOs away, as if grabbing hold of something.

JUMP-FOR-JOY / JOY - Start with the sign STAND and repeatedly and rapidly raise and lower the DH while curling the FT to show a person jumping.

COME-ON - (2h)[B^] move in circles pivoting at the wrists to beckon someone to do something.

JERUSALEM - [B with thumbs flush with other fingers but not folded into palm], touches mouth and then pronates.

CRIPPLED - (2H)[1^], POs down, FOs away, hands circle normal (perpendicular] to the body with DH behaing as if it were a crippled leg.

Lyrics (Psalm 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6):

Response: Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
On the aspens of that land we hung up our harps. Response

For there our captors asked of us the lyrics of our songs,
And our despoilers urged us to be joyous: "Sing for us the songs of Zion!" Response

How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand be forgotten! Response

May my tongue cleave to my palate if I remember you not,
If I place not Jerusalem ahead of my joy. Response