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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

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JORDAN
The River Jordan appears throughout African American spirituals as a symbol of the threshold between struggle and rest, the crossing-over place, home just on the other side.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CHARIOT
The chariot image draws on the Hebrew Bible story of the prophet Elijah, who was carried to heaven in a whirlwind accompanied by a chariot of fire, a vision of divine rescue that resonated deeply.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
REFRAIN
The song's chorus, "Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me home", is one of the most recognized refrains in American music, sung by everyone from gospel choirs to stadium crowds.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ANGELS
"A band of angels coming after me" is the line that has echoed across more than a century and a half of American singing, its promise of company on the journey as comforting as the melody itself.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, free, large-print word search drawing from the gentle, enduring comfort of this beloved old spiritual.

About Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Few songs carry a soul the way "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" does, its melody rolling slow and warm as a river at dusk. The spiritual is believed to have roots among enslaved African Americans in the antebellum South, its imagery of chariots and angels woven through with a longing for freedom and the promise of home. Generations have sung that quiet, steadying refrain in churches, in fields, and around kitchen tables, and it has never once lost its power to still the heart.

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