England Rugby Fans were reeling today at the shock news that musicologists have discovered that ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ does in fact have more than two lines. Ian James, the lead researcher said, ‘It seems that the song is not, as was thought, an endless chart for boorish, ex-public school boys to bray when the England team is winning, but an African-American spiritual originating in the slave community of the deep south. The irony of this would be almost unbearable, if the rugger fans had the modicum of intellectual sensitivity required to see it’.

Fraser ‘Diggers’ Digby, City Trader and keen England Rugby fan said, ‘Apparently the other lines have something to do with Jordan, but I thought she was calling herself Katie Price these days. And anyway, how are we supposed to remember more than two lines after twelve glasses of Pimms in the corporate reception suite before the game?’

Ian James came across a group of rugby fans in a pub before the last England rugby international and attempted to explain to them the history of spiritual music as a means of resistance among the oppressed slaves. He also explained that many of the banks at which the rugby fans worked had originally made their fortunes out of the slave trade. ‘There was a contemplative pause’ reported Mr James, ‘and then they all burst into singing ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’ over and over again. Oh, and then one of them was sick on me.’

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