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Where did the original lyrics for Swing Low Sweet Chariot come from?

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Where did the original lyrics for Swing Low Sweet Chariot come from?

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This Afro-American spiritual song was composed by Wallis Willis, a native American slave in about 1862. His local river with red clay suspended in it inspired him to write of the Jordan River and Elijah being taken to heaven in a fiery chariot.