When I first heard this song, I was a little boy up Down in the state of Carolina The song had been written and recorded by a man T. Texas
The song in it's form related to something that during the second World War Last year, in 1991, when things were going kinda crazy on the other side of the world, I remembered this old song
And I rewrote the first of it to fit the situation The second part of it I left like it's all of these years Because you can't improve perfection I'd to dedicate this tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, loved ones And everybody that this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday in the Saudi Arabian desert And a young sat alone in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and children back in the United States Rested on a table
His mind began to wander the miles Back to other mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he knew that this day dawned in America
His family would go to church to pray for his And his safe The young soldier reached into his bag and he out A of playing cards
He began to spread them out his bunk About time, one of his buddies came by and said "You get up a game?", "No," the soldier replied "I'm gonna spend a little quiet with the Lord"
"Looks like to me you're playing cards," his friend "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and we can't Display our religion in public, here, I brought this deck Of cards" and with that, the boy started his story
You see when I look at the Ace, It me That there is but one God and the Deuce me that The Bible is divided two parts The Old and the New
I look at the Trey, I think of the Father, the Son And the Holy When I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four Who preached the
There was Matthew, Mark, and John And I see the Five, I think of the five wise virgins Who their lamps, there were ten of them Five were wise and were saved, five foolish and were shut out
And when I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six God made this heaven and earth The Seven me that on the seventh day God rested from His work
I see the Eight, I think of the eight righteous persons God saved when He destroyed old world There was Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives And I look at the Nine, I think of the lepers Our Saviour
And nine out of the ten, didn't even Him And when I see the Ten, I of the Ten Commandments God handed to Moses on the table of stone I look at the King
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Blessed Mary of Heaven and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
When I count the of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year There's 52 cards, the of weeks in a year 4 suits, the number of weeks in a month There's 12 picture cards, the number of in a year There's 13 tricks, the of weeks in a quarter
So you see, my This deck of cards serves me as a As an Almanac and as a Book
And friends, story is true I know because I know soldier