Swing low, sweet chariot,Coming for to carry me home,Swing low, sweet chariot,Coming for to carry me home.
1I looked over Jordan, and what did I see,Coming for to carry me home?A band of angels coming after me,Coming for to carry me home.
2If you get there before I do,Coming for to carry me home,Tell all my friends I’m coming too,Coming for to carry me home.
3The brightest day that ever I saw,Coming for to carry me home,When Jesus washed my sins away,Coming for to carry me home.
4I’m sometimes up and sometimes down,Coming for to carry me home,But still my soul feels heavenly bound,Coming for to carry me home.
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In a Church of England funeral hymns may be sung at any suitable point; the Church's own step-by-step guide places one once everyone has gathered and another after the prayers. At a Catholic funeral Mass there is an entrance song, Communion hymns and a closing hymn at the procession.
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is in the public domain in the United States (first published 1872) and in the United Kingdom (printed without an author in 1872 (anonymous work, 70-year term long expired); the attributed composer, Wallace Willis, a Choctaw Freedman, is thought to have lived about 1820 to 1880), so the words can be printed in a booklet without permission or a fee.
Printed here as in the source, except: Verses 1 and 2 and the refrain are printed under the music in 1872, so their line division is editorial; verses 3 and 4 are printed as text and follow that layout; Verse-final full stops supplied for verses 1 and 2 (the music line ends with a comma).