Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash
According to Wikipedia: “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is an American Negro spiritual. The earliest known recording was in 1909, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University.
In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the song as one of 50 recordings chosen that year to be added to the National Recordi...
[Verse 1]
Well, I looked over Jordan, and what did I see?
Coming for to carry me home
There was a band of angels coming after me
Coming for to carry me home
[Chorus]
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
[Verse 2]
I'm sometimes up, and I'm sometimes down
Coming for to carry me home
But but I know my soul is heavenly bound
Coming for to carry me home
[Chorus]
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
[Verse 3]
If you get there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Tell all my friends that I'm a-coming too
Coming for to carry me home
[Chorus]
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
[Outro]
And now they're coming for to carry me home
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was written by Traditional & Johnny Cash.
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was produced by Don Law.