Eric Clapton - Swing Low Sweet Chariot Lyrics






[Chorus:]
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home.
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home.

I looked over Jordan, what do I see,
Coming for to carry me home.
A band of angels coming after me,
Coming for to carry me home.

[Chorus]

[Repeat Verse]

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  1. A.... S....

    One of my favorite Christian songs.

  2. H.... ....

    wonderful song

  3. S.... M....

    From tons of versions of this song, for me this one is the most touching version to imagine and to feel how the slaves felt that time.

    S.... M....

    Sam M2 holding out for the day of the Lord. Hope is what got them thru.

  4. s.... l....

    een heel mooi nummer

  5. B.... C....

    中学生の頃、片想いの彼女に借りたLPの中に入ってた曲。懐かしい。

  6. S.... ....

    https://youtu.be/wMF4XQwQxn0

  7. B.... B....

    A superb piece of work

  8. T.... H....

    july 2019 still listening

  9. P.... H....

    My mom stole this album from my big brother when I was a kid. I was so surprised because we always thought of Clapton as heavy metal rock, like “Layla” and stuff from Cream and Derek and the Dominoes days.

  10. C.... C....

    Racist singing black music!

  11. J.... D....

    ALWAYS SOUNDS THE SAME

  12. R.... R....

    This Beautiful song reminds me my childhood friend who is no more in this World. When we gather together most of the time we used to sing this song. I love this song and i miss him 😥

  13. T.... E....

    2018 any one ?

  14. A.... C....

    What a song!!!!!!
    I know it's been sung for me.

  15. f.... C....

    1Ki 13:26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake unto him.

  16. A.... F....

    Excuse me for being a cynical I love sam Cooke and China black version done for the rugby TV coverage miles better.

  17. T.... P....

    One of my favourite songs!:)

    T.... P....

    Means the world to me.

  18. L.... T....

    a very awesome song thanks 4 loading

    L.... T....

    great idea man

  19. �.... !....

    I love this song, I love you Eric!!♡

  20. S.... W....

    Ever Green song ....love 8

  21. �.... �....

    sorry,but this is terrible

    �.... �....

    Fuck you bitch

  22. A.... ....

    I still have a cassette named "There's One in Every Crowd" with this in it.  Got it in 1990.

  23. S.... G....

    I heard this many years ago, it has taken as many years finding it again.

  24. T.... R....

    I LOVE THIS! Want it at my funeral. Dead or Alive, it’s a FAVE💞

  25. M.... ....

    I like Clapton a lot but this is horrible :O.

  26. �.... ....

    oh, my lord,

  27. A.... K....

    One of my faves!

  28. g.... m....

    The title of this album "fits" me SO well....& u can just ask ALL of my H.S. friends too!;D

  29. a.... ....

    In the end you can turn almost every song into a reggae. Boring.

  30. J.... S....

    Dis music guys, de pentatonic, is de backbone of some much great music of de 6os and de 70s. Example FREE, Paul Kossof. and a ton of stuff ....West Coast Country Rock .....pentatonic over Doh tonality. Den dey layed de pentatonic over Lah tonality and add de diabolus. Man dis stuff is so expressive! De tensions and resolutions are so friggin powrerful man. Me thinks Eric is a going a way back to de black roots. After all, he suffer some shit., like dem negros. Swing Low is one great "Negro Spiritual". Dem black guys laid de roots of de Exodus of musical expression into jazz , rock, pop, country and de polyrythm into drumbeat and latin rhythms. Derz no pentatonic in UK sept in de North West Islands of Scotland, and de British Schools of Music promote de 7 note scale/modes. We owe it all to de Spirituals like Swing Low. Tanx Eric. Loved this one in '75

    J.... S....

    No pentatonics in the UK? That's not true at all.

    J.... S....

    Parlez the Anglais?

    J.... S....

    How about speaking ENGLISH!!

  31. A.... ....

    Will always associate this with a really fun day in Death Valley with Dave Peterson, Ed the Server, Larry Popp, me and my husband Ronald all piled in our 4WD Amigo coming back home to Furnace Creek Ranch from a party by a bunch of Viet Nam Vets at State Line Bar and singing to this cassette "There's One in Every Crowd" on the way . But especially when we were all singing this one.

  32. A.... ....

    OMG thanks for posting this. I have the whole deal on a 90 minute cassette tape and its all stretched out and couldn't get on a CD. I remember driving in our Amigo with 2 guys who also worked in Death Valley and we were bringing them a ride back to the ranch at Furnace Creek where we lived. We coming home from a bar b cue and this song was on the cassette that was in and we all were singing this. GOOD TIMES.

  33. c.... ....

    I really enjoy this version of this spiritual. I plan for it at my funeral one day.

    c.... ....

    Sweet Chariot

    c.... ....

    I enjoy it too, but I rather plan it for SOMEONE ELSE"s funeral...one day!!

  34. D.... ....

    Eric Clapton ma *Man* *†*

  35. C.... ....

    OK , Thanks Brian and Marin

  36. C.... ....

    Fabulous version. Did Clapton write this ? Don't think so.

    C.... ....

    It's African-American Spiritual....Great!

    C.... ....

    it was a african american slave song, which could be why these versions are so powerful, anybody with a musical gift can brew the greatest sorrow and greatest delight from this song.

    C.... ....

    OK. Thanks for that Jordan. Much obliged.

    C.... ....

    Thanks Marin . Obliged

    C.... ....

    @Jordan Dias History. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865.

  37. T.... ....

    swingt mit :-)

  38. O.... ....

    Charming!

  39. j.... ....

    I like Clapton very much, but I wish I had never stumbled across this appallingly bad recording. By comparison, his dreadful "I Shot the Sherrif" sounds almost listenable.

    j.... ....

    My husband was fighting for his life against adrenal cancer. He was in a clinical trial in Nashville when his life was cut short by a complication. I found this song on his music player after his death. It gives me hope. Songs mean different things to different people. I think this song gave him hope and it gives me hope without him.

    j.... ....

    Stay strong. Thank you for sharing what happened to your family.

    j.... ....

    jsbrules I really like both of them... this entire album is a true classic

  40. T.... E....

    Ein super Song ... Danke Eric!!!

  41. S.... J....

    What a great song!

  42. m.... b....

    ghastly. crap pretend reggae from the man who has repeatedly supported racist Enoch Powell and yet ripped off black music for his own use.

    m.... b....

    He's a horribly racist person who has no business covering a Negro Spiritual. That song is NOT just about going to heaven, do some research. Also, nothing else you said makes sense.

    m.... b....

    Sorry, the racism is strong in this one. Fuck Eric Clapton.

    m.... b....

    @Caleb Morris got to admit it though African Americans do sing amazing grace so much better than white folk

    m.... b....

    Depends on the person. Blacks got good voices and bad voices, same with white. Skin color has nothing to do with it. I do know some blacks who tear that song up though, ill give you that.

    m.... b....

    History. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865.

  43. H.... ....

    reggae version sweet as fk

  44. E.... T....

    No one copares top this
    version of swing low

    E.... T....

    They're all good. I just really like the Rastafarian touch to this version. Have this on cassette.

    E.... T....

    Sister O.M.Terrel

    E.... T....

    Boy u must be spliffed

    E.... T....

    Are you kidding? The first recorded version by the Fisk Jubilee singers and the version by Etta James are far better than this trash.

    E.... T....

    Fuck you bitch you piece of shit. I hope you win the lottery and die the next day