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"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a United States African-American Negro spiritual song. The first recording was by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1909. In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the song as one of 50 recordings chosen that year by to be added to the National Recording Registry. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.
While sung primarily in black churches and throughout the nation in traditionally African-American venues, it also has a large association with English rugby union and is also regularly sung at England national rugby union team matches. It is sometimes called "Coming for to carry me home".
It is not to be confused with "Swing Down Sweet Chariot", a different spiritual recorded by Elvis Presley and others.







