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A Song Of Deliverance

Bob Neumann, 5/2006

Greetings…. Since yesterday I have had a song “playing” in my mind and my spirit. It is an old song I remember from my childhood. The words of my “memory” do not seem to match the “official” lyrics….so this is something THE MOST HIGH set in motion 40+ years ago.

Would you like to hear the story, Of a girl that many soldiers know? It’s a tale of love in all it’s glory, They tell when the lights are soft an’ low!

Underneath the lamp post by the brigades Standing all alone every night you’ll see her wait, She waits for a boy who marched away And though he’s gone, she hears him say: “Oh promise you’ll be true,

Fare thee well Lili Marlene, ’till I return to you, Fare thee well Lili Marlene!”

With a kiss she gave her promise, To be constant as the stars above, Every soldier knows she’s kept her promise, And she has been faithful to her love!

Underneath the lamp post by the barrack’s gate Standing all alone every night you’ll see her wait, For this is the place a vow was made And breezes sing her serenade “Oh promise you’ll be true,

Fare thee well Lili Marlene, ’till I return to you, Fare thee well Lili Marlene”

Although each tale must have an ending No one knows just what the end will be But tonight when twilight is descending, If you’ll come along, here’s what you’ll see

Underneath the lamp post by the barrack’s gate Standing all alone every night you’ll see her wait, And as they go marching to the prey The soldiers all salute and say: We’ll tell him you’ve been true, Fare thee well Lili Marlene, ’till he returns to you, Fare thee well, Lili Marlene!

In this song we see a young Lady who awaits the return of one she loves and who loves her. A common theme in most love songs. But this one is different. First is the young lady’s name is LILI as in THE FLOWER and she waits every night under a LAMPPOST.

At the end more soldiers march off and promise to tell her LOVER that she is FAITHFUL and still WAITING. Soldiers marching “to the prey”. Funny how that term “prey” makes me think of GOG.

Eze 38:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, [that] at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: Eze 38

¹¹ And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates

¹² To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places [that are now] inhabited, and upon the people [that are] gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land

As I pondered the LAND OF UNWALLED VILLAGES I think back on what I wrote on that post 9/11 I had a second tune begin. But it has no words…it is a MARCH…. the COLONEL BOGEY MARCH.

And I will stop there and let those who have eyes to see and ears to hear what THE MOST HOLY SPIRIT is sending….

Selah

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