When I heard this song, I was a little boy growing up Down in the of South Carolina The had been written and recorded by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's original form to something that during the second World War Last year, early in 1991, when things were going crazy Over on the other side of the world, I remembered this old
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 you can't improve upon perfection I'd like to dedicate tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, their loved And everybody that loves this
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Saudi desert And a young sat alone in his tent, deep in thought A of his wife and children back home in the United States Rested on a nearby
His mind began to wander across the Back to other Sunday that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he of home And he knew that when this day in America
His would go to church to pray for his well-being And his return The young soldier into his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to spread them out across his that time, one of his buddies came by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the soldier "I'm gonna spend a little quiet time the Lord"
"Looks like to me playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and since we Display our in public, here, I brought along this deck Of cards" and with that, the boy started 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 Ghost I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four Evangelists Who the Gospel
There was Matthew, Mark, Luke and And when I see the Five, I think of the five virgins Who their lamps, there were ten of them Five were and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And when I at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made great heaven and earth The Seven me that on the seventh day God rested from His great
I see the Eight, I think of the eight righteous persons God saved when He this old world There was Noah, his wife, their three sons and wives And when I look at the Nine, I of the lepers Our Saviour
And nine out of the ten, even thank Him And when I see the Ten, I of the Ten Commandments God down to Moses on the table of stone When I 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 the number of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the 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 number of months in a There's 13 tricks, the of weeks in a quarter
So you see, my deck of cards serves me as a Bible As an Almanac and as a Prayer
And friends, this is true I know because I that soldier