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Text: | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
Tune: | SWING LOW |
Adapter and Arranger: | William Farley Smith |
Refrain:
Swing low, sweet chariot,
coming for to carry me home;
swing low, sweet chariot,
coming for to carry me home.
1 I looked over Jordan, and what did I see,
coming for to carry me home?
A band of angels coming after me,
coming for to carry me home.
(Refrain)
2 If you get there before I do,
coming for to carry me home;
tell all my friends I'm coming too,
coming for to carry me home.
(Refrain)
3 I'm sometimes up, I'm sometimes down,
coming for to carry me home;
but still my soul feels heavenly bound,
coming for to carry me home.
(Refrain)
4 The brightest day that I can say,
coming for to carry me home;
when Jesus washed my sins away,
coming for to carry me home.
(Refrain)
Text Information | |
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First Line: | I looked over Jordan, and what did I see |
Title: | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
Refrain First Line: | Swing low, sweet chariot |
Meter: | 10 8.10 8 with Refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | The Sacraments and Rites of the Church: Funeral and Memorial Service; New Heaven and a New Earth: Death and Eternal Life; Eternal Life(2 more...) |
Source: | Afro-American spiritual |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | SWING LOW |
Adapter and Arranger: | William Farley Smith (1987) |
Meter: | 10 8.10 8 with Refrain |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Afro-American spiritual |
Copyright: | Adapt. and arr. © 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House |