* Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals, particularly their section on " Freedom " ( Web site maintained by The Spirituals Project at the University of Denver )

Comprising mainly Keaggy originals, the album features a cover of " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ," and would later win Keaggy another Dove Award.

Sometime before 1862 a Negro slave, Wallace Willis, composed the Negro spiritual " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ".

* 1961: Swing Low Sweet Chariot ( Vee-Jay )

" The Gospel Train ", " Song of the Free ", and " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " are likewise supposed to contain veiled references to the Underground Railroad, and many sources assert that " Follow the Drinking Gourd " contained a coded map to the Underground Railroad.

Among these were " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot ", " Steal Away to Jesus ", " The Angels are Coming ", " I'm a Rolling ", and " Roll Jordan Roll ".

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This day also saw the origins of the adoption of the negro spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as a terrace song.

A group of boys from the Benedictine school Douai following a tradition at their school games sang Swing Low, Sweet Chariot whenever a try was scored.

Since then Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a song to sing at England home games, in the same way that Fields of Athenry is sung in Dublin and Cwm Rhondda is sung at Cardiff.

" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " is a historic American Negro spiritual.

" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " was 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 before 1862.

Oklahoma State Senator, Judy Eason McIntyre from Tulsa, Oklahoma proposed a bill nominating " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " as the Oklahoma State official gospel song in 2011.

" Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " has been sung by many artists.

* Emmylou Harris made an allusion to this song in " Sweet Chariot ", the closing song on The Ballad of Sally Rose ( 1985 ):

* Steve Earle made an allusion to " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " in " Ellis Unit One ":

* Tom Petty made an allusion to " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " in " All or Nothing " from the album Into the Great Wide Open ( 1991 ):

* Tori Amos made an allusion to " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " in " Spark " from the album From the Choirgirl Hotel ( 1998 ):

* Thom Yorke of Radiohead made an allusion to " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " in " Pyramid Song " from Amnesiac album ( 2001 ):

* Courtney Love made an allusion to " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " in Hole's song " Awful ":

* Mark Knopfler made an allusion to " Swing Low, Sweet Chariot " in the song " Early Bird ", a b-side from the album Get Lucky:

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

King wrote the background history of the very first American vampire, Skinner Sweet, in the first five-issues story arc.

According to Melvin Van Peebles, the original production was of a white detective story, but following the success of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the original script was scrapped in favor of an adaptation of Ernest Tidyman's 1970 novel Shaft, which focused on a black detective.

The silent tells the story of a sheltered woman named Letty ( Lillian Gish ) who lives in the East in Virginia and moves to West Texas to live at her cousin Beverly's ranch at Sweet Water.

A fictional version of its courthouse and rural countryside are also featured in director Ali Selim's 2006 independent film Sweet Land, a love story revolving around a German immigrant's settlement in rural Becker County, Minnesota in the aftermath of World War I.

( Compare the story of Barbara Allen and sweet William: They buried Barbara in the old church yard / They buried Sweet William beside her / Out of his grave grew a red, red rose / And out of hers a briar.

Sweet Bird of Youth is a 1959 play by Tennessee Williams which tells the story of a gigolo and drifter, Chance Wayne, who returns to his home town as the accompaniment of a faded movie star, Princess Kosmonopolis ( also known as Alexandra Del Lago ), whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies.

Irma la Douce the Sweet " tells the story of Nestor Patou ( Jack Lemmon ), an honest cop, who after being transferred from the park Bois de Boulogne to a more urban neighborhood in Paris, finds a street full of prostitutes working the at Hotel Casanova and proceeds to raid the place.

This story is further documented by a variety of Gissing scholars and in the book A Sweet and Glorious Land: Revisiting the Ionian Sea ( St. Martin's Press, 2000 ) by John Keahey, and Pierre Coustillas.

During those years he also wrote the cantata, Sweet Freedom's Song, in 1965 ; the Fifth Symphony in 1976 ; a Piano Concerto in 1968, which was commissioned by the Powder River Foundation for the soloist Marjorie Mitchell ; a Saxophone Concerto in 1984 ; and the operas The Lady from Colorado in 1964, Claudia Leqare in 1977, Abelard and Heloise in 1981, Minutes till Midnight in 1982, and Roman Fever in 1993 ( based on the short story of the same name by Edith Wharton ).

tells the story behind the making of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.

A Wedding for Bella ( formerly titled The Bread, My Sweet ) is a 2001 motion picture that told the story of a successful businessman who trades in his single lifestyle to marry the estranged daughter of a terminally ill elderly woman whom he loves like a mother.

After a shootout, George and Grover jump off the train and are arrested and taken to a small abandoned train station, where Federal agent Donaldson ( Birman ) explains that the police were only trying to protect George and that he planted the Sweet murder story.

* The Sweet Sound of Ruby Elzy, review of CD Ruby Elzy in Song by Pultizer Prize-winning critic Lloyd Schwartz on NPR's Fresh Air, broadcast 28 June 2007: http :// www. npr. org / templates / story / story. php? storyId = 11510015

Sweet Dreams is a 1985 biographical film which tells the life story of country music singer Patsy Cline.

His book Sweet Promised Land, which told the story of his father returning to his Basque homeland after almost 50 years in the American West, was internationally acclaimed and won several literary awards.

* Sweet Legacy, a cooking love story: status unknown

It tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad.

* Peter Cansfield Sweet FA: The true story of sweet Fanny Adams Publisher: Peter Cansfield Associates ( 2000 ), ISBN 0-9536346-1-2 ISBN 978-0953634613

* Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories, a 1996 short story collection by Rosario Ferre

Other TV work includes Doctor Who story The Leisure Hive ( 1980 ); Blake's 7 episode " Rumours of Death " ( 1980 ); Campion story Sweet Danger ( 1990 ); Inspector Morse episode " Dead On Time " ( 1992 ); and Cracker.

While the deal was still up in the air, Van Peebles developed the story for Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.