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Swing Low, 1961
Written by Henry Clay Work, 1876
I know this song from Johnny Cash's more appropriately somber version. Cooke's voice is velvet, of course, but a song that starts with a male chorus singing "tick tock" probably isn't going to have the requisite gravitas, you know? The jaunty beat, the swinging pacing, and the bright horns punctuating Cooke's lines just don't fit the theme of the song. I didn't realize that this song was written so long ago. Fun fact, this song is the origin of the term "grandfather clock."
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