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Title: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Music: Traditional spiritual, arranged by Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949)

Text: Traditional

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• PDF: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
• Key: A♭ Major
• Range: E4 – F5
• Source: Individual song, ©1917 G. Ricordi & Co.

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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 look’d over Jordan 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.

• Duke’s Digital Collection has color scans of the original publication of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot