Like Bread Upon The Water

Like Bread Upon the Water (for Three Holes in the Chimney)
(Mary Lee Partington)


Like bread upon the water, I will return to you
Like bread upon the water, our journey is not through
For you are my tormentor and my salvation, too
Like bread upon the water, I will return to you.

My mama is in heaven and if I will be good
Then she will not forsake me if I tread the path I should
But how will she find me if I’m taken from my home
Like bread upon the water, I’ll return from whence I roam.


God bless the beasts of burden and all the laboring folk
God bless the little children that suffer ‘neath the yoke
Of cruel mistreatment, a lot in life to rue
For “bread upon the water” safe harbors are too few.


Like bread upon the water, I will return to you
Like bread upon the water, our journey is not through
For you are my tormentor and my salvation, too
Like bread upon the water, I will return to you.