<P> "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" is an American negro spiritual . The earliest known recording was in 1909, by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University . </P> <P> In 2002, the Library of Congress honored the song as one of 50 recordings chosen that year to be added to the National Recording Registry . It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts . </P> <P> "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" may have been written by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory in what is now Choctaw County, near the County seat of Hugo, Oklahoma sometime after 1865 . He may have been inspired by the Red River, which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah's being taken to heaven by a chariot (2 Kings 2: 11). Some sources claim that this song and "Steal Away" (also sung by Willis) had lyrics that referred to the Underground Railroad, the freedom movement that helped black people escape from Southern slavery to the North and Canada . </P> <P> Alexander Reid, a minister at the Old Spencer Academy, a Choctaw boarding school, heard Willis singing these two songs and transcribed the words and melodies . He sent the music to the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee . The Jubilee Singers popularized the songs during a tour of the United States and Europe . </P>

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