When I first this song, I was a little boy growing up Down in the of South Carolina The song had been written and recorded by a man T. Tyler
The song in it's form related to something that during the second World War Last year, early in 1991, things were going kinda crazy Over on the other of the world, I remembered this old song
And I rewrote the first part of it to fit the The second part of it I like it's been all of these years Because you improve upon perfection I'd like to dedicate this tonight to all the
To their families, their loved And everybody that loves this
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Saudi Arabian And a young soldier sat alone in his tent, deep in A picture of his wife and children back home in the United Rested on a nearby
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 would go to church to pray for his well-being And his return The young soldier reached into his bag and he out A deck of cards
He began to spread them out across his About that time, one of his came by and said "You get up a game?", "No," the soldier 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 boy started his story
You see I look at the Ace, It reminded me there is but one God and the Deuce reminds me that The is divided into two parts The Old and the New
When I look at the Trey, I of the Father, the Son And the Ghost I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four 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 were ten of Five wise and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And when I look at the Six, I'm reminded in six days God made this great and earth The reminds me that on the seventh day God rested from His work
I see the Eight, I think of the eight righteous persons God saved when He this old world There was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives And I look at the Nine, I think 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 handed down to Moses on the of stone When I look at the
It me that there is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Queen of Heaven and the Jack or is the Devil
When I count the number of spots on a deck of
I find 365, the number of days in a 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 of months in a year 13 tricks, the number of weeks in a quarter
So you see, my This deck of cards serves me as a As an and as a Prayer Book
And friends, this story is I know because I know soldier