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