Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
(source: "Our Chalet Songbook", Our Chalet Committee, 1981; also found
in "Diamond Jubilee Songbook", Girl Guides Association, 1984.)
Chorus:
- Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home;
- Swing low, sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home.
- I looked over Jordan, and what did I see,
- Comin' for to carry me home;
- A band of angels coming after me,
- Comin' for to carry me home.
If you get to heaven before I do,
- Comin' for to carry me home;
- Just tell all my friends that I'm a-coming too,
- Comin' for to carry me home.
I'm sometimes up and sometimes down,
- Comin' for to carry me home;
- But still my soul feels heavenly bound,
- Comin' for to carry me home.
I've never been to heaven, but I've been told,
- Comin' for to carry me home;
- That the streets in heaven are paved with gold,
- Comin' for to carry me home.