Dig My Grave

Dig My Grave is a Bahamian rhyming spiritual used for burials. Henry Edward Krehbiel wrote:

Relics of ancient ceremonies connected with death and burial have survived amongst the American negroes and have been influential in producing some strangely beautiful and impressive songs. One of these, 'Dig My Grave', from the Bahamas, where the songs, though they have much community of both poetical and musical phrase with them, yet show a higher development than do the slave songs of the States, is peculiarly impressive.^[1]