When I first heard this song, I was a boy growing up Down in the state of South The song had written and recorded by a man named T. Tyler
The in it's original form related to something that Happened during the World War Last year, early in 1991, things were going kinda crazy Over on the other side of the world, I this old song
And I rewrote the first of it to fit the situation The second part of it I left like been all of these years Because you can't improve perfection I'd like to this 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 soldier 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 began 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 for his well-being And his return The young soldier reached his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He to spread them out across his bunk About that time, one of his buddies by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the soldier "I'm gonna spend a little quiet time the Lord"
"Looks to me you're playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I have my Bible and since we can't Display our religion in public, here, I brought along this 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 into two parts The Old and the New
When I at the Trey, I think of the Father, the Son And the Holy 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 trimmed lamps, there were ten of them Five were wise and saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And when I at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made this heaven and earth The Seven reminds me on the seventh day God rested from His work
When I see the Eight, I think of the righteous persons God saved when He destroyed old world There was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives And when I look at the Nine, I think of the Our Saviour
And out of the ten, didn't even thank Him And when I see the Ten, I think of the Ten God handed down to Moses on the of stone When I at the King
It reminds me that there is but one of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Blessed Mary Queen of and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
When I count the number of spots on a of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year There's 52 cards, the number of weeks in a 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 deck of serves me as a Bible As an Almanac and as a Book
And friends, this is true I know I know that soldier