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  • im sadly singing this in choir... :(

  • From Johnny Cash the song of the rebel slaves.The instructions to run from sud slavery guards,a classic blues, lovely also in Fats Weller version.

  • Singing this in Choir.

    

  • im sinign this for my choir play

  • I love this so much!

  • Don't know 'bout you fellas, but I know this song from Jersey Girl (2003) :))

  • i am sitting about 10 mins away from where this was written

    it was written is se okla by slaves

    during the civil war

  • my dad died 2 days ago aged 31 this was his favorite song ever rip <3

  • my grandfather died today this is the song i will play at his funeral

  • I want this played at my funeral :)

  • Anyone remember that one part in Revenge of the Nerds and this song?

  • This song was a message to all slaves around the United States. Friend of friend.

  • 33 people will never see a sweet chariot comin for to carry them home

  • my dad used to sing this to me as a child as a bed song :-)

  • @walarissa My mom sang it to me, too. =]

  • This was played at my grandfathers funeral, will be played at my fathers and will be played at mine. Just love this song

  • luv you johnny cash singign this tonite milfields show <3 wish me luck =P xxx

  • Johnny cash<3

    im doing this song in choir:)

  • I hate how a lot of people are on this song because they didnt choose to johnny cash is amazing.

  • im here cuz of my teacher

  • omfg this song sounds so wrong xD

    

  • If I have to wait forever for the chariot, I will.

  • If I have to wait for the chariot, then I will.

  • We can win the world cup!

  • great song...

  • i love johnny cash

  • i love this song andi am singing it in choir

  • I close my eyes and I can really see Johnny singing in heaven with the angels....A soothing feeling I had listening to him sing this.

  • I wish..

  • oh sally u nailed it, u hit the sweet spot girlfriend. thanks sweetie.

  • 12 ppl dont know johnny cash

  • I would love to find the Fats Waller version of this, its not on the internet anywhere.

  • This will be played at my dad's funeral. He died too young, he was only 41 yrs old. R.I.P daddy :(<3

  • @SIENNAx95 i sang it at my grandpas funeral

  • @SIENNAx95 im sorry to hear that man. wish u and family all the best.

  • @SIENNAx95 Sorry to hear this, i hope you are alright and i hope you know your dad is in a better place now

  • the good lord took my grandpa home

  • This will be the song played at my funeral as they carry my coffin out

  • i sang this in chorus

  • This is one song in my confirmation :)

  • swing low, sweet chariot

    comin' for to carry home

    I love this song! My dad used to sing it to me as a little kid :)

  • love it. thx for posting

  • lol oppression

  • Creed Bratton of The Office brought me here.(Also my love of Johnny Cash did too).

  • major 3rd song

  • Creed brought me

    here

  • Mg mom used to sing me and my sister this song when we were little.

  • swing low, oil prices, swing low so i can get home.

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck haha..... i think everyone who drives is saying the same thing

  • @hunterjumper4life13 haha, i shoulda said diesel prices, cause i drive a first gen(1989) dodge cummins with the king cab, 8 ft bed and 4wd. And work with it. and now ive been pullin huge trees that hurricane irene blew over. i live in maryland. ive been goin all over the county and helpin my friends clean out their yards. thats what i love bout havin a diesel.

  • repeat. repeat. repeat. i could listen to this all day,

  • I seen this on Futurama so I had to listen to it haha!

  • @sartanko hahahhaha I just looked this song up because I saw it on scrubs !

  • So whyyyy is Elliot not allowed to sing this?

  • @sartanko seriously. that scrubs episode reminded me of a few years ago when i learned this at camp. when i came home singing it my sister old me not to but wouldn't tell me why!

  • @sartanko She can't hit those low notes?

  • @Mbash93

    ...Of course, haha so obvious, thanks!

  • @sartanko It was a joke because the song is about black slavery

  • @yourmumisbuff123

    So why can't she sing it?

  • @sartanko

    Was originally an African-American religious song, and if memory serves me right, it was used by the civil-rights movement.

    That being said, I personally find it a little bit racist to forbid her from singing it...

  • @sartanko Elliot? Scrubs? DAMMIT, i am a real fan but.. i can only vaguely remember this reference... episode? :O?

  • @TheINfamousrocker Season 8, Episode 7. "My New Role"

  • @TheINfamousrocker S8E7 My New Role - the one where Dr. Cox becomes Chief of Medicine

  • @sartanko i think its cause it was one of the many songs slaves used to sing while working in the fields

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  • @sartanko Who the hell is that

  • Why do I love this song so much?

  • and it is tragic that a song from the hearts of oppressed people looking to the Lords hand to save them leads people to metaphorically smash the heads of babies and poison peoples land.

  • Have Christians, as a group, done great wrong? Yes. Are they still doing great wrong? Yes. Does that make God evil. No. As Gandhi said, I like your Christ. It's your Christians I do not like. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear... That old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind... Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  • When I was in honor choir, we sang a medley of this and "When the Saints Go Marching In". One word to describe it: EPIC!!!!! :D

  • Go J.R

  • does every youtube video have to have some racial argument in the comments. i dont care what color you are, if you keep tossing blame aroung instead of moving the fuck on youre gonna be an unhappy person and will only fuel more biggotry. sayin "the white man" fuck you, my ancestors werent even here. and sayin "they call us whitey so we can call them niggers" fuck you too. just be a decent human being and you wont need to give a shit about who is what race. just respect everybody. fucking idiots

  • @awesomeitalian i htink you're the only smart person on here! seriously people! CALM DOWN! IF YOU KEEP THIS UP WE"LL ALL BE RACISTS! >:(

  • whatever this is awesome song, and dunno how racism and slavery got into the picture, but whatever...johhny cash, the dude..yikes, why are youtube so racist..dang..

  • Day is never finished, master got me workin, someday master set me free.

  • i luv this song cuz it is a song for blacks and i am black

  • what smells honey? eee Russ russ, your feet

  • America: we took it from the Indians made the blacks keep it up and

  • @ikeaman16 We tried to be peaceful with the Indians, but they attacked us first, so we used superior weaponary to suppress them. If they wouldn't have attacked us, they wouldn't have seen nearly as much hardship. And less than 2% of Americans owned slaves during those times, and only 5% of those slave owners were wealthy slave owners (had more than 1 slave). Public schooling brain fucked you.

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH Wouldn't you attack someone forcefully entering your land?

  • @herpderpable First, so are you saying we should have never explored and colonized the Americas? Second, (if you do think that) that justifys native americans scalping women, and taking white babies and smashing their heads against rocks? I'm sorry, if i saw anyone do that, i don't care what the circumstances are, they are savages and they are going to fucking die.

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH I never said the Americas should not have been explored. I am thankful they did, however, they could have done so with a bit more kindness. However, times were different. Of course it doesn't justify it. Yet, you're ignoring how the colonists just took the natives as slaves, especially in the Caribbean.

  • @herpderpable Put yourself in their shoes. They meet the natives, try to be friendly, and the natives attack them. Remember they knew nothing about these people, so they didnt know what to expect. If i was a colonist and i saw a bunch of red skinned men (who i had never seen before) kill my wife and smash my childs head, i might not take to kindly to natives anymore.

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH you ignorant...They didn't attack them first. they attacked after they were threatened by the newcomers. And even if they DID attack first, the colonist went all out and attacked every tribe and nearly killed them all off

  • @Zacurafire They attacked first because europeans were building settlements, and they liked the land having nothing on it and being worthless. Europeans saw great potential in North America, Native Americans wanted to stick to their primitive ways. And how the fuck were we supposed to know what tribes were friendly and which ones were violent. All we knew was the natives killed an entire village of peaceful settlers, and we were not going to make the same mistake twice

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH

    I see you are from States, so you wouldn't mind if I move to your backyard and live in your house then?

    I would be very peacefull, don't smash my baby on the rock if I accidentally poison your family and sell your house, I didn-t mean it just wanted to spread the gospel to you hethens.

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH You're insane.

    You're trying to justify GENOCIDE. You're fucking insane.

  • @derdriui Nope, its called looking at both sides and putting yourself in their shoes.

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH ... No, honey. Seriously, it was GENOCIDE. Read a book.

    Also, you calling them 'savages' shows that you probably haven't read books, but just to address that point: READ A BOOK, WATCH A MOVIE, LISTEN TO THE JOHNNY CASH SONGS WITH PETER LAFARGE LYRICS, YOU MORON.

    Sry, guy. But you're really, really pushing any lines of rationality here. You have to look at both sides, yeah, and when you look you will see that there was genocide. Ask... any person, read any book. Seriously.

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH you....your a racist aren' you?

  • @Zacurafire How do you figure that? So smashing babies heads on rocks isn't savage behavior? And you wouldn't want to blow the fuckers away that would grab infants and kill them? Remember Indians attacked us first, and with the most godless savage animalistic tactics imaginable. And once settlers heard about what they did at Jamestown, do you honestly think that they would welcome them with open arms again?

  • @GODDAMNSASQUATCH Taking slaves isn't savage behaviour?

    I'm gonna get a migraine from trying to decipher your bullshit. Your arguments lack any actual evidence and you fail to respond an counter-evidence presented to you, instead you just reiterate your arguments about settlers being peaceful and everybody else being a savage. Put yourself in their shoes, somebody comes onto your land and just sets up camp... I sure as hell would have a problem with that.

  • @herpderpable but its not really even their land its the earth so its everyones

  • this song was sung by the slaves... they slaves sang this because they were calling out to the angels in heaven coming on a chariot to come and take them to heaven.... so they were singing that heaven is their home because the stupid ass white man took them as slaves, soo remember when they say that the white man does alot of work, thats bullshit.. it was the black man who invented street lights... the white man sez that he did all of that just to look good!!!!

  • @3bearheart Actually no..... It seems like they are singing that but in fact This song was sung as a mockery towards white people. You see.... In the north slavery was abolished and there were people from the north, blacks and some whites that were helping black slaves cross from the south to the north.... carry me home acutally meant carry me north, and swing low sweet chariot means they wished for th chariots to pass unseen in the night. Look it up if u don't believe me.

  • @stiffy616 ok thanks soo much 4 explaining this song to me...

  • Nigger*

  • No one cares about niggers and how sad there life USED to be they always say " whitey cracker" but how dare a white man call a black man a nugget or porch monkey they say they fought for non segregation well there still making it that wAy

  • @ikeaman16 wtf is wrong with you and no not all black people call white people crackers but you sir a a legit dumb ass and if your from america most likely a dumb fuck republican and this is all brought to you by a 12 year old black girl so fuck off and have a great fucking day!

  • haha we are singing this in my choir at school... cool

  • i'm 14 and i remember going to church with my grandparents when i was like 3-7 singing this song

  • this smells like garbage yo

  • This song was meant to be sung by the slaves (because they used to hide in boxes on trains to get home e.g. coming forth to carry me home) so it is kind of sad

  • @KitttyNinja Canada isn;t there true home moron... and the underground railroad wasnt exactly all trains... do some research...

  • we havve to sing this in music to warm up our voices;)

  • Not long enough. Sigh

  • @DaveScott69 That's what she said.

  • @DaveScott69 She says a lot of things.

  • @DaveScott69 I rarely give comments Thumbs Up. You deserved it though.

  • @DaveScott69 you what

  • 666th...Dang

  • @cdizzleandbigcdizzle Not anymore.

  • The voice of Johnny Cash ought well speak again for the United States of America. Now we're down, but we'll be up again one day.

    We're singin some low hymnals to the Lord this weekend, but we're gonna rise again!

  • How about this, everyone who was arguing about sports are fucking retards?

  • love Johnny Cash gospel. In memory of my grandma who passed away on the 23rd of Dec 2010. She loved this song and used to sing it to me.

  • my daddy used to sing this to me when i was a baby (: (my dad sings this better)

  • perfect

  • this is what slaves use to sing when working the cotton fields...

  • i heard this song represents slaves...

  • Major 3rd Down!!!! :D...and I kinda fell in love with this version of the song :P

  • Absolutely beautifully done. no one does it like Johnny Cash. R.I.P. Mr. Cash & Thank you

  • this is one of those songs that should appeal to everyone but not 20 of them really love this song

  • we sing this song at camp :)

    gooddddd memoriesss :)

    LOVE THIS SONG!!!

  • I have to sing this for chior...

  • i hate this song because a little english boy called damian millard loves it and i hate him so much(Y)

  • My great grandfather used to swing with me in the front porch swing.. He sang low, sweet, and slow... "Swing low... Sweet chariot..Coming for to carry me home.." We would swing back and forth for hours..All the while he sang... "Swing low..Sweet chariot..Coming for to carry me home.." It is one of my fondest memories...

    I hope you have fun flying with the angels Papy.. We love you.

  • Regardless of any athletic accomplishments the English seem to feel entitled to...

    If they ever find themselves in any political troubles in the world it'll be the great satan, America, which they come crying to when they realize they can't pull their own pathetic asses out of it.

  • you guys are getting annoying, quit fighting, technically the song started in Jordan, not USA or UK

  • funny how the fkin yanks are only good at their own sports lmaoo. you cant play a fucking sport without protection you pussys, you even have a fkin helmet on you tits. dont see any of that in american football you wankers. and btw what did you beat us at, golf no? rugby no? FOOTBALL no? cricket no? tennis no? and just foy your infomation... we ent british were ENGLISH 

  • @HolteDuffyEnder you know i would love to see a rugby team go on against a NFL team, see who would win, (NFL bigger, faster, stronger), (Rugby fast, small, Thin)

  • @jaywolflover NFL might run faster but we play for 20 mins longer. Rugby has drop goals so it's more technical, rather than just running up and down a strip of grass, our pitch is wider and there are more men doing different jobs. It would completely confuse an American.

  • @Matinee909 Rugby deserves more respect than soccer, but NHL is better than either of them by a long way.

  • @HolteDuffyEnder Your British, buddy. And that's all rather a moot point when you consider the fact that whenever President Obama whistles, your PM comes arunnin' to his lap, regardless of how well his soccer team falls over at the World Cup.

  • @HolteDuffyEnder so u not british well just to tell you i am and our country is fucked. to many greedy bastereds in castle.what are there getting bringing people from other countrys over here.what we dont know

  • @HolteDuffyEnder one thing that we did beat you at though, WARS, both 1812 and 1776. HaHa.

  • Why does it have to have a tag> Like "negro" why not the closest England will get to thier own song

  • i want them to sing Dixie at my funeral.

  • johnny cash is the singer. for the people who cant tell lol. he was a man i hpoed wood never die. to me johnny was as meaningful well the usa or stars and stripes or pop and im a man who loves his Dr. Pepper. well the list gos on. but i hpoe your wharing that suit white in here after. god bless you and the lessings you gave me bye song. RIP Mr. Cash

  • it's closer now than when we first believed. Even so come, Lord Jesus

  • This is my 4yr old baby girl's favorite gospel song...she sings it with her daddy!

  • Beautiful song. It reminds us of the shortness of this life, whatever calamities we face will be over in just a few short years and then we will be in God's hands.

  • we learned this in are music class and its a lot more better then this guy no a fens

  • @motogolf810 Maybe you should have paid more attention in ENGLISH class!

  • this is real southern gospel, this southern boy knows southern gospel when he hears it.

  • @jennel802009 that is often the case with Mr. Cash's covers

  • This is the best version of this song that I have ever heard.

  • what I like about this is it reminds me that death is just departure from this world and us going home

  • @darush012

    That what I thought that this song was about... before I realized it was about the underground railroad transporting black slaves into Canada.

  • We sang this in Adv. Woman's Choir in High School . We really enjoyed it and now almost 6 years later I sing it to my 5 week old daughter when she's fussing and it calms her down quickly.

  • very niçe song

    great*

    Bigyouth72

  • Swing low, sweet chariot,

    Coming for to carry me home.

    Swing low, sweet chariot,

    Coming for to carry me home.

    I looked over Jordan, what do I see,

    Coming for to carry me home.

    A band of angels coming after me,

    Coming for to carry me home.

  • this sends chills down my spine (in a good way) when u hear it at rugby games

  • @Jaffaraza fuck rugby

  • @Hoboscouts fuck you this version is a pussy sounding version when you hear english rugby fans sing this at the top of their voices... thts amazing

  • @Jaffaraza fuck english rugby, this song i from the good ole US of A.

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck o ryt... those retards who can only play sports that they themselves invented :P u call it the World Series of Baseball when only America play in it... how fucked up is tht?

  • @Jaffaraza who the fuck you callin a retard bitch, if yall are so fuckin smart why did yall have to steal a song from the good ole USA and adopt it as a English fuckin rugby song, or shoukld i say FAGby

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck that is probably the lamest joke in the world. Its American "Football" which is a fag sport. Rugby is a HARD sport. American football is just rugby with padding for protection for u fag americans. Lol... "fagby" is that all ur retarded American brain could come up with?

  • @Jaffaraza Judging by the symmetry of your teeth (or lack thereof. Maybe that's why you people like posting so much- your Picasso teeth can't form coherent words.) and the fact that you, ironically, said that cummins is "retarded" because he can't come up with a clever insult, one might say that it is the Brits who are "retarded".

  • @NDC1012 haha, nice. really.

  • @Jaffaraza oh, Im retarded huh! you dipshits are so dumb that the fagby union couldnt come up with its own song, yall had to copy off of American spiritual music, oh and like i told that other little brit, the U.S kicked ur asses twice. Have fun suckin the kings dick.

  • @Jaffaraza im a retard, look at the dumb motherfucker who cant even spell the word RIGHT, not ryt. whos the retard now. and btw, i dare any rugby team from your country to come over here and play against an NFL team, theyll probably get their bones snapped and go back to britain yiping like scalded dogs.

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck LOOOOL!!!! WHAT A JOKE! NFL???? Who outside america watches that shit? In fact all the sports that are "big" in america are ONLY big in america/canada. Anyway those idiots in American Football wear so much padding its unbelievable. Rugby players play with NO padding and the only protection is gum shields! How can u compare the two when the amount of contact in rugby is clearly more yet they amount of protection is less?

  • @Jaffaraza have you actually watched a NFL game im pretty sure it was proven on sports science that a hit from defensive back in a football game is twice is hard as a rugby hit and defensive backs are the smallest players on defense so i would get my facts straight if i were you. you can look it up on youtube.

  • @getbackonthefield Facts? You used the phrase 'pretty sure', that doesn't sound very factual. And which rugby player and NFL player did they compare? Because comparing upto 20 of each still wouldn't be conclusive enough to back up this claim you learned from watching television... Great song. Peeps should check out my orchestral version!

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck fuk in

    DIRTY BASTARD YANK WANKER GO FUK YA SELF AN PLAY YA PUSSY SPORT OF NFL LIL CRACK POP BASTARD

  • @burale12 hey bitch, the usa kicked ur cock sucking English asses twice , ur probably some loud mouth cocksucking piece of shit brit. u wanna talk about a pussy sport huh, how bout soccer or rugby. i bet u wouldnt have the balls to come ur little faggot ass to the USA especially, the south, and call the nfl a pussy sport, oh wait, thats right, u dont. oh and this song was made in the U.S. Bitch

  • @CumminsCrazedredneck For real, fucking chavs better get their attitudes straight

  • @burale12 hey, yall still suckin the kings dick?

  • @Hoboscouts haha, thats what i said.

  • we singed this song so many times at school when i was little

  • R.I.P. Uncle Eduardo your soul will still pass on

  • lol isnt this song about slaves killing themselves because that was the only way to get out of slavery

  • @bananasofthesea yes yes it was :)

  • @bananasofthesea no u freaking idiots this was the song that they sung the night they were gonna escape to the underground railroad

  • To all those people dissing this song: HAVE A HEART GUYS! THEY ARE NOT RETARDS! THEY ARE EXPRESSING THEMSELVES! SO DON'T DIS!! Please D':

    To those People who donn't know the connection with rugby: Its because the song is to do with freedom and respect in different countries so they use it in rugby as it is a sport where you can represent your country! ...plus its bringing the ball home !! :D

    I love the song, and it was played at my uncles funeral! R.I.P SIMON!! I LOVE YOU!