National Pledge

of

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas

(Pledge clipped from: Ministry of Education's Site - 11 Nov. 2003)

Special thanks also to Doc. Philip Rahming & Mrs. Hazel Johnson

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Written by

by

Doc. Philip Rahming

Photo from

(BahamasUncensored_Com Archive - AUGUST 2003) - 4th May 2004

"I pledge my allegiance
to The Flag and to The Commonwealth
of The Bahamas for which it stands
one people united in love and service."

Pledge: Approved by Government on the 21st March, 1978.

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NOTES

According to a link via site www.bahamas.gov.bs which credits the Department of Archives:

It is stated, Philip Rahming was inspired to write an Anthem (which took him 20 minutes), due to following the example of Hugh Sherlock a Methodist Minister who wrote the National Anthem of Jamaica.  After writing an Anthem, Philip Rahming wrote a pledge and designed a flag. 

The Pledge was written on a snowy day in April 1971 in Kentucky where Philip Rahming was a student of "Southern Baptist Theological Seminary" in Louisville Kentucky. 

The three pieces were submitted into a competition,  the Anthem was accepted as "The national Song", and the pledge is as above was accepted in 1978.

texts above are based on data from

http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/bahamasweb/aboutbahamas.nsf/Subjects/Song+Artists#rahming

see National Song by Doc. Philip Rahming

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