Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (album)

1949 studio album by Paul Robeson

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Studio album by Paul Robeson
Released	1949
Label	Columbia Masterworks

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Billboard	Good (76/100)

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is a studio album by Paul Robeson, released in 1949 on Columbia Masterworks. Robeson was accompanied on piano by Lawrence Brown, who also provided additional vocals on some of the tracks.

Track listing

The album was originally issued in 1949 as a set of four 10-inch 78-r.p.m. records, catalog number MM 819.

Side 1
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
2.	"Ev'ry Time I Feel de Spirit"

Side 2
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Got a Home in Dat Rock"
2.	"O Gimme Your Han'"

Side 3
No.	Title	Length
1.	"No More Auction Block"
2.	"Great Gittin' Up Mornin'"

Side 4
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hear de Lam's A-Cryin'"
2.	"Goin' to Ride Up in de Chariot"

Side 5
No.	Title	Length
1.	"I'll Hear de Trumpet"
2.	"Ezekial Saw de Wheel"

Side 6
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Poor Wayfarin' Stranger"
2.	"Hammer Song"

Side 7
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dere's a Man Goin' 'Round"
2.	"I Know de Lord"

Side 8
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Git on Board, Little Chillen"
2.	"Lil' David"

References

Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 30 April 1949.
"Paul Robeson with Lawrence Brown – Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". Discogs. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
Record Supplement. 1949.

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Discography Filmography
Films	Body and Soul (1925) Camille (1926) Borderline (1930) The Emperor Jones (1933) Sanders of the River (1935) Show Boat (1936) Song of Freedom (1936) Big Fella (1937) My Song Goes Forth (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1937) Jericho (1937) The Proud Valley (1940) Native Land (1942) Tales of Manhattan (1942) The Song of the Rivers (1954) The Tallest Tree in Our Forest (1977) Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) Paul Robeson: Speak of Me as I Am (1988) Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999) Paul Robeson: Songs of Freedom (2008)
Stage shows	Shuffle Along Show Boat Emperor Jones All God's Chillun Got Wings The Hairy Ape Othello 1930, London 1943, Broadway 1959, Stratford 1958 Carnegie Hall Plant in The Sun John Henry Peace Arch Concerts
Albums	Ballad for Americans Songs of Free Men Spirituals Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall "Encore, Robeson!" (Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs, Vol. 2)
Songs	"Go Down Moses" "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" (1925) "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1926) "Ol' Man River" (1928) "Mighty Lak' a Rose" (1930) "That's Why Darkies Were Born" (1931) "Gloomy Sunday" (1936) "Just Awearyin' for You" (1938) "A Perfect Day" (1939) "Ballad for Americans" (1939) "Land of My Fathers" (1940) "Joe Hill" "On My Journey Now"
Activism and history	Paul Robeson and the International Brigades Political views of Paul Robeson Council on African Affairs Civil Rights Congress American Crusade Against Lynching We Charge Genocide Progressive Party Freedomways Peekskill riots
Writings and speeches	Freedom newspaper I Want to Be African Negroes—Don't Ape the Whites Negroes Should Join the CIO Time to Bring Negro Players Into the Major Leagues Never Again Can Colonialism Be What It Was Paul Robeson Congressional hearings Thoughts on Winning the Stalin Peace Prize To You Beloved Comrade Ho Chi Minh Is Toussaint L'Ouverture of Indo-China We Can Learn from the Struggle in South Africa Here I Stand Paul Robeson Speaks
Family and friends	Eslanda Goode Robeson (wife) Paul Robeson Jr. (son) William Drew Robeson I (father) Lawrence Benjamin Brown Benjamin J. Davis Jr. Lloyd L. Brown Andrew Faulds W. E. B. Du Bois Shirley Graham Du Bois Clara Rockmore Revels Cayton Pete Seeger Ossie Davis
Associates	Carl Van Vechten Eugene O'Neill Elisabeth Welch Jomo Kenyatta Kwame Nkrumah Jawaharlal Nehru Itzik Feffer Howard Fast Henry Wallace Louis E. Burnham Uta Hagen Joe Louis Harry Belafonte Esther Cooper Jackson Max Yergan Pool Group Margaret Webster Tony Benn Nikita Khrushchev Will Paynter Bumpy Johnson Earl Robinson Walter Camp Peggy Ashcroft Martin Duberman Fania Marinoff
Locations	Rutgers University Priory Group Royal Shakespeare Company School of Oriental and African Studies Columbia Law School Moscow Conservatory Paul Robeson House (Philadelphia) Paul Robeson House (London) Paul Robeson Home Paul Robeson Theatre South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago Store Front Museum, New York
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