Where have all the bibles gone? (Can be sung to the melody of ‘Where have all the flowers gone? By Peter, Paul and Mary.)

Where have all the bibles gone?

It used to be a thing

I saw

When staying

at

Hotels and hostels

& similar types

of places.

In every

Bedside drawer

There would be a brown or blue

Gideon

Bible.

‘Look,’ I said to my daughter, ‘In your bedside drawer!’

‘It’s empty,’ she replied.

They seem to have disappeared.

and,

Did you know,

That Gideon

The biblical

Soldier, judge and prophet

Determined who would fight alongside him

Through the water test?

They guys who knelt

And scooped water from the river

With their hands, were out

And those who lay,

on the bellies and lapped ‘like dogs’

were, in,

For it was thought

That the kneelers were idolaters

Kneeling at every Tom, Dick, or Harry.

The belly layers,

Were the full-on, monotheists,

The, ‘No God Before Me’ folk.

Myself,

I would have taken to my knees. Anything to get out of a bloody battle.

And still,

I don’t know where the bibles have gone.