Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Words & Music:

Traditional

This is also sung as a Call And Response with one person singing the lines and everyone singing "Comin' for to carry me home...".  Acoustic Guitar magazine has an arrangement of this in their September 2005 issue.

 

CHORUS:

C               F     G   C                      G7

Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home.

      C         F     G   C             F     G7 C

Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home.

 

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see comin' for to carry me home?

A band of angels comin' after me, comin' for to carry me home.

 

CHORUS:

 

If you get there before I do, comin' for to carry me home,

Tell all my friends I'm comin' soon, comin' for to carry me home.

 

CHORUS:

 

I'm sometimes up and sometimes down, comin' for to carry me home.

But, still I know I'm freedom bound, comin' for to carry me home.

 

CHORUS:

 

If I get there before you do, comin' for to carry me home.

I'll cut a hole and pull you through, comin' for to carry me home.

 

CHORUS:

 




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