Sing Old Time Melody

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,

Chorus:

Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Coming for to carry me home.

I 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.

Repeat chorus:

I’m sometimes up and some times down

Coming for to carry me home,
But still my soul fees heavenward bound

Coming for to carry me home.

And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. 

     And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. 

   He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; 

2 Kings 2:11-13