Song 16 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors · Song 22 in Ukulele for Beginners

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home.
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
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,
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,
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.

Music: Traditional African-American spiritual (attributed to Wallace Willis, fl. 1840s–1860s)
Words: Traditional African-American spiritual
First published: 1872 (Jubilee Songs, as sung by the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, ed. Theodore F. Seward, New York)
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.