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