When I heard this song, I was a little boy growing up in the state of South Carolina The song had been and recorded by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's original form to something that Happened the second World War Last year, early in 1991, when things were going kinda Over on the side of the world, I remembered this old song
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 can't improve perfection I'd to dedicate this tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, loved ones And everybody that loves this
It was a sweltering hot Sunday in the Saudi Arabian desert And a young soldier sat in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and children back home in the States on a table nearby
His mind began to wander across the Back to Sunday mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he of home And he knew that when day dawned in America
His family would go to church to for his well-being And his safe The young reached into his bag and he took out A deck of playing
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 spend a little quiet time with the Lord"
"Looks to me you're playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and we can't Display our religion in public, here, I 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 reminds me that The is divided into two parts The Old and the New
When I at the Trey, I think of the Father, the Son And the Ghost When I see the Four, I'm reminded of the Evangelists Who the Gospel
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And when I see the Five, I think of the wise virgins Who their lamps, there were ten of them Five wise and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And when I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six God this great heaven and earth The Seven reminds me that on the day God rested His great work
When I see the Eight, I of the eight righteous persons God when He destroyed this old world There was Noah, his wife, their three and their wives And when I look at the Nine, I think of the Our cleansed
And out of the ten, didn't even thank Him And I see the Ten, I think of the Ten Commandments God down to Moses on the table of stone When I at the King
It reminds me that there is but one King of God The reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Heaven and the Jack or is the Devil
When I the number of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of days in a There's 52 cards, the number of in a year There's 4 suits, the number of weeks in a There's 12 cards, the number of months in a year 13 tricks, the number of weeks in a quarter
So you see, my This deck of cards me as a Bible As an Almanac and as a Book
And friends, this is true I know because I know soldier