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Swing Low Sweet Chariot Analysis
The best song of 1909 was “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”. This was a spiritual often performed during the Civil Rights movement.

This song was written as an African American spiritual and recorded by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. It became the anthem of the England National Rugby Union Team.

“Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is listed on the National Recording Registry and Songs of the Century. It is supposed that the song was written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory which is know Choctaw Country near Hugo, Oklahoma. His inspiration might have come from the Red River that reminded him of the Jordan River and when Prophet Elijah was taken to Heaven by a chariot.

Others have said that the song was in reference

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