Text: | Swing Low, Sweet Chariot |
Tune: | [I looked over Jordan, and what did I see] |
Arranger: | R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) |
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 The brightest day that ever I saw
Coming for to carry me home.
When Jesus wash’d my sins away,
Coming for to carry me home. (refrain)
4 I’m sometimes up and sometimes down,
Coming for to carry me home.
But still my soul feels heavenly bound,
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 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Advent |
Source: | Traditional |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [I looked over Jordan, and what did I see] |
Arranger: | R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Negro Spiritual |
Copyright: | Arr. © 1936 Paul A. Schmitt Music Company. Copyright assigned to Belwin Mills. Made in U.S.A. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission of CPP/Belwin, Inc., P.O. Box 4340, Miami FL 33014. |