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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Traditional)
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General Information
Title: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Composer: Harry T. Burleigh
Lyricist: Traditional
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Solo Baritone
Genre: Secular, Spiritual
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
Published: Individual song, © 1917 G. Ricordi & Co.
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Original text and translations
English text
- Swing low, sweet chariot,
- Coming for to carry me home.
- Swing low, sweet chariot,
- Coming for to carry me home.
- I look’d over Jordan what did I see,
- Coming for to carry me home?
- A band of angels coming after me,
- Coming for to carry me home.
- Swing low, sweet chariot,
- Coming for to carry me home.



