The Rank and File

Music: D.G. Womb / Words: Alan Seegar/ D.G. Womb

(I Have A Rendezvous With Death read by Pete Seegar)

I have a rendezvous with Death

At some disputed barricade

When Spring comes back with rustling shade

And apple-blossoms fill the air

I have a rendezvous with Death

When Spring brings back blue days and fair

It may be he shall take my hand

And lead me into his dark land

And close my eyes and quench my breath

It may be I shall pass him still

I have a rendezvous with Death

On some scarred slope of battered hill

When Spring comes north again next year

And the first meadow-flowers appear

Chorus

The rank and file, the rank and file, the rank and file

File right on in

The rank and file, the rank and file, the rank and file

File right on in

G*d knows ‘twere better to be pillowed deep

In silk and scented down

Pulse nigh to pulse and breath to breath

Where love throbs out in blissful sleep

Where hushed awakenings are dear

But I’ve a rendezvous with Death

At midnight in some flaming town

When Spring trips north again next year

And I to my pledges word am true

I shall not fail my rendezvous

Chorus

The rank and file, the rank and file, the rank and file

File right on in

The rank and file, the rank and file, the rank and file

File right on in

The rank and file, the rank and file, the rank and file

File right on in

The rank and file, the rank and file, the rank and file

File right on in

But I’ve a rendezvous with Death

At midnight in some flaming town

When Spring trips north again next year

And I to my pledges word am true

I shall not fail my rendezvous