Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Over My Head) (arr. Brandon Haynes) by African-American Spiritual, Wallace Willis Sheet Music for Performance Ensemble at Sheet Music Direct
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Over My Head) (arr. Brandon Haynes) Digital Sheet Music
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (Over My Head) (arr. Brandon Haynes)
by African-American Spiritual, Wallace Willis Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is a spiritual associated with Choctaw freedman slave, Wallace Willis in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865. It is believed that the sight of the Red River, by which the slave was laboring, reminded him of the Jordan River and of the prophet Elijah being taken to heaven by a chariot, a biblical reference found in 2 Kings 2:11. This arrangement is written for Medium Voice, piano accompaniment, and cello obbligato. It incorporates remnants of another spiritual, "Over My Head" the mixes well with the text of "Swing Low". This arrangement also incorporates a new melody to create a bridge-like section for "If you get there before I do".

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