Ann Bruen on Instagram: "Day 54 of #asunriseaday #atuneaday from Omeath, Co. Louth. A nice bit of colour to greet the new day. For the tune of the day I’m playing my own recording of the 1860s spiritual song ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” is a 19th-century African American spiritual believed to have been composed by Wallace Willis, a Choctaw Freedman - a formerly enslaved African American who was emancipated and granted citizenship in the Choctaw Nation following the trib

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