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"Swing Down Sweet Chariot" (sometimes "Swing Down, Ezekiel" or "Swing Down Chariot") is an American spiritual song. It tells the story of Ezekiel's vision of the chariot. The title and lyrics are very similar to the spiritual song "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot", and is thought to be an adaptation of said song. Composer and lyricist Wallis Willis is ...
The lyrics "Swing down, sweet chariot, stop and let me ride" quote the traditional spiritual "Swing Down, Sweet Chariot", [1] first popularized in the 1940s by The Golden Gate Quartet and later recorded by Elvis Presley among others (and not the better-known spiritual "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"). The track "Let Me Ride" on the Dr. Dre album The ...
The noun merkavah "thing to ride in, cart" is derived from the consonantal root רכב r-k-b with the general meaning "to ride". The word "chariot" is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, [5] and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel's vision (), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.
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Matthaeus Merian, Ezekiel's "chariot vision" (1593–1650) Another song with a reportedly secret meaning is "Now Let Me Fly" [3] which references the biblical story of Ezekiel's Wheels. [4] The song talks mostly of a promised land.
Support came from Bootsy's Rubber Band (with The Horny Horns) who were still promoting their debut album Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band, a live recording issued later in 2001 as Live in Oklahoma 1976, and Sly and the Family Stone promoting Heard Ya Missed Me, Well I'm Back (Epic, December 18, 1976). Members of the opening acts joined ...
Swing low, sweet chariot. Coming for to carry me home. Swing low, sweet chariot. Coming for to carry me home. If you get there before I do. Coming for to carry me home. Tell all my friends I'm ...
"Go Down Moses" - 3:37 "Rock My Soul" - 3:12 "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" - 2:43 "On My Way" - 3:05 "Down by the Riverside" - 3:13 "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" - 3:10 "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" - 3:31 "Jonah and the Whale" - 2:50 "Didn't It Rain" - 2:52 "This Train" - 2:31; Extra tracks on CD reissue