Why did the English hijack the song "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" into a rugby song?

This song is only one of hundreds, converted or even perverted to other uses than the original usage! you should hear what rugby players and supports do to the French National Anthem!
There is the "William Tell" Overture used as a theme tune for the "Lone Ranger"
 
It's not about slavery. It's a Christian gospel song;

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory, sometime before 1862. He was inspired by the Red River which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah being taken to heaven by a chariot"

Just because it was written by a freed slave doesn't mean it's about slavery so stop imagining things that aren't there.
 
It's not about slavery. It's a Christian gospel song;

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory, sometime before 1862. He was inspired by the Red River which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah being taken to heaven by a chariot"

Just because it was written by a freed slave doesn't mean it's about slavery so stop imagining things that aren't there.
 
It's not about slavery. It's a Christian gospel song;

"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed by Wallis Willis, a Choctaw freedman in the old Indian Territory, sometime before 1862. He was inspired by the Red River which reminded him of the Jordan River and of the Prophet Elijah being taken to heaven by a chariot"

Just because it was written by a freed slave doesn't mean it's about slavery so stop imagining things that aren't there.
 
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