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“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” with an MP3 Recording

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was created by Sarah Hannah Sheppard around 1847.

Sarah Hannah Sheppard, a slave in the south, sang this lullaby to her daughter Ella.

Around 1855, the woman who was Sarah’s slaveholder tricked 3 year old Ella into spying on Sarah. When Sarah found out, she was so distraught, that she decided to go down to the river to drown her daughter and herself. On the way, she came across an old slave women who told her not to do it. That God had need of the child. Touched by this, Sarah went back home with her daughter.

Ella went on to become one of the Fisk Jubilee Singers at Fisk University. One of the songs they sang was Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, which contributed greatly to the song’s popularity.

MP3 of Swing Low Sweet Chariot as performed by the Southern Four in 1924 and recorded by Thomas Edison.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
By Sarah Hannah Sheppard

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

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

If you get there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Tell all my friends I coming too
Coming for to carry me home.

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

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.

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

Sheet Music for Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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