Our Singing Country

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	Our Singing Country
	DIG MY GRAVE A^y aby c. No. 502. Group of Andros Island men, Nassau, Bahamas, 1935. See Mem. HI, p. 37- The present popularity of close-harmony anthem singing among Baha-man Negro men is due, probably, to its fairly recent introduction from the United States, which the Bahaman thinks of as a land of milk and honey and millionaires. In the evenings on the sponging grounds south of Andros, on Sundays on the water front, these groups gather, each about a leader who improvises balJads about the last hurricane, about Noah or Job, while the group fills in s^d harmony—early English with a dash of barber-shop— behind him. "Dig My Grave," thus improvised by a group of men from Andros Island, is, we feel, one of the finest of Negro spirituals.