Well, I found the English lyrics. Click here for the MIDI. Another link (click here) that may be interesting, although the Hebrew lyrics may be incomplete.
I also found a story about the song:
Naomi Shemer's song Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (Jerusalem of Gold) was chosen as Israel's "Song of the Jubilee" on Independence Day. In a survey conducted jointly by the Reshet Gimmel radio station, Channel One television and the Yediot Aharonot newspaper, Shemer's 1967 hit was selected as the most popular song of Israel's first fifty years.
Naomi Shemer appeared on television as the top ten songs were announced and played for viewers and listeners all over Israel. She recalled how Jerusalem mayor, Teddy Kollek, had asked for new Jerusalem-related songs to be written for the annual Hebrew song festival to be held in Jerusalem in 1967. It was during the months just before the Six Day War when songwriter Shemer travelled to the divided city for inspiration. She remembered a legend of Rabbi Akiva giving a gift of gold and copper to his wife, and the song began to take hold. An unknown singer, Shuli Natan, was asked to perform the song at the festival, and it was an immediate hit.
Just months later the war broke out, and for the first time the city of Jerusalem was united under Israeli rule. The verses of "Jerusalem of Gold" were updated to reflect the change, and the song became part of Israel's history.
Jerusalem of Gold
by Naomi Shemer
As clear as wine, the wind in flying
Among the dreamy pines
As evening light is slowly dying
And a lonely bell still chimes,
So many songs, so many stories
The stony hills recall...
Around her heart my city carries
A lonely ancient wall.Alas, the drying wells and fountains,
Refrain:
Yerushalaim all of gold
Yerushalaim, bronze and light
Within my heart I shall treasure
Your song and sight.
Forgotten market-day
The sound of horn from Temple's mountain
No longer calls to pray,
The rocky caves at night are haunted
By sounds of long ago
When we were going to the Jordan
By way of Jericho.But when I come to count your praises
Refrain:
Yerushalaim all of gold
Yerushalaim, bronze and light
Within my heart I shall treasure
Your song and sight.
And sing Hallel to you
With pretty rhymes I dare not crown you
As other poets do,
Upon my lips
is always burning
Your name, so dear, so old:
If I forget Yerushalaim
Of bronze and light and gold...Back to the wells and to the fountains
Refrain:
Yerushalaim all of gold
Yerushalaim, bronze and light
Within my heart I shall treasure
Your song and sight.
Within the ancient walls
The sound of horn from Temple's mountain
Again so loudly calls,
From rocky caves, this very morning
A thousand suns will glow
As we shall go down to the Jordan
By way of Jericho.
Refrain:
Yerushalaim all of gold
Yerushalaim, bronze and light
Within my heart I shall treasure
Your song and sight.