Lyrics to
Swing Low Sweet Chariot

This version of Swing Low Sweet Chariot was released by Eric Clapton in 1975.

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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 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.

Eric Clapton has released many songs over the years besides Swing Low Sweet Chariot. Eric Clapton released songs from 1970 to 2005 spanning across albums like Eric Clapton, 461 Ocean Boulevard, There's One In Every Crowd, No Reason To Cry, Slowhand, Backless, Another Ticket, Money And Cigarettes, Behind The Sun, August, Crossroads, Journeyman, Unplugged, From The Cradle, Pilgrim, Riding With The King, Reptile, Me And Mr. Johnson, and Back Home. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Eric Clapton.

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The lyrics for Swing Low Sweet Chariot are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1975 song by Eric Clapton. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Swing Low Sweet Chariot have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Eric Clapton and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Swing Low Sweet Chariot by Eric Clapton in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Swing Low Sweet Chariot" means the words set to the music of Swing Low Sweet Chariot, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Eric Clapton. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Swing Low Sweet Chariot and the lyrics to Swing Low Sweet Chariot are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Eric Clapton who came here looking just for the lyrics to Swing Low Sweet Chariot, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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