You Can Make It

You can make it
(Repeat) You can make it
If you try
If you try
If you fall out
If you fall out
You will die
You will die
Don't fall out
Don't fall out

This was the chant by 30-40 students jogging around the track at my old high school this morning.
You can make it
At my usual watering stop, I see this group, blowing whistles, banging drum sticks and chanting to keep the pace as the tight packed moved slowly around the gravel path.
If you try
A man in a small brown car pulled over and also enjoyed the show.
If you fall out
As some of the joggers would drop back, a person with a whistle and a baton would drop back and cheer them on to return to the others. The chanting was hypnotic.
You will die
Much like an Orleans funeral march, the whistles kept a beat for the chanters to follow. Hand clapping kept the pace and the upbeat voices, almost laughter, drove the group forward.
Don't fall out
A wonderful cheerful celebration on a warm spring day.
Don't fall out
As I started off again, I smiled at the man in the brown car who had also been watching this specticule. He looked more bewildered than enthralled in the pageantry.

Perhaps he had already fallen out.