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Will RFU use snatch squads over Swing Low?

THE decision by the RFU to launch a review of the historical context of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot shows how inept the current administration is.
The RFU should already know the context inside-out, which is that it was written by Wallis Willis, a freed slave, and that is a song about freedom, which uses the language of Christian imagery.
One of the most famous performances of it was by the folksinger Joan Baez, who was a noted Civil Rights activist, at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
It was adopted by large sections of Twickenham crowds to salute the try-scoring feats of two exceptional black...

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