When I first heard this song, I was a little boy up Down in the state of South The song had been written and by a man named T. Tyler
The song in original form related to something that during the second World War Last year, early in 1991, when things were going kinda Over on the other side of the world, I remembered this old
And I the first part of it to fit the situation The second part of it I left it's been all of these years you can't improve upon perfection I'd like to this tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, their ones And everybody loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Saudi desert And a young soldier sat in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and children back home in the States Rested on a nearby
His mind to wander across the miles to other 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 pray for his And his safe The young soldier into his bag and he took out A deck of playing
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 replied "I'm gonna spend a little quiet with the Lord"
"Looks like to me you're playing cards," his said "No, you see, I don't have my and since we can't Display our religion in public, here, I along this deck Of cards" and that, the young boy started his story
You see when I at the Ace, It reminded me That there is but one God and the reminds me that 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 of the four Evangelists Who the Gospel
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And when I see the Five, I think of the five virgins Who trimmed their lamps, were ten of them Five were wise and were saved, five were foolish and shut out
And I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made this heaven and earth The reminds me that on the seventh day God from His great work
When I see the Eight, I of the eight righteous persons God saved He destroyed this old world There was Noah, his wife, their three sons and wives And I look at the Nine, I think of the lepers Our cleansed
And out of the ten, didn't even thank Him And when I see the Ten, I of the Ten Commandments God handed down to on the table of stone I look at the King
It reminds me that there is but one King of God The reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
When I count the of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the of days in a year There's 52 cards, the of weeks in a year 4 suits, the number of weeks in a month There's 12 cards, the number of months 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 and as a Prayer Book
And friends, this is true I know because I know soldier