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Behind the Song: Swing Low Sweet Chariot

February 9, 2020 Leave a comment

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a well-known and popular African American spiritual. The song 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. Historians believe he may have been inspired by the sight of the Red River, near where he […]

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Behind the Song: Swing Low Sweet Chariot