When I first heard song, I was a little boy growing up in the state of South Carolina The song had written and recorded by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's original related to something that Happened during the World War Last year, early in 1991, when things were kinda crazy Over on the side of the world, I remembered this old song
And I the first part of it to fit the situation The second part of it I left like it's been all of these Because you improve upon perfection I'd to dedicate this tonight to all the Veterans
To families, their loved ones And everybody loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Arabian 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 mind began to wander across the Back to Sunday mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he that when this day dawned in America
His family would go to church to pray for his And his safe The young reached into his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to them out across his bunk About that time, one of his buddies by and said "You get up a game?", "No," the soldier replied "I'm spend a little quiet time with the Lord"
"Looks like to me 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 that, the young boy started his story
You see when I look at the Ace, It me That is but one God and the Deuce reminds me that The Bible is divided into two The Old and the New
I look at the Trey, I think of the Father, the Son And the Ghost When I see the Four, I'm of the four Evangelists Who preached the
There was Matthew, Mark, and John And I see the Five, I think of the five wise virgins Who trimmed their lamps, were ten of them Five were wise and were saved, five foolish and were shut out
And when I at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made this great heaven and The Seven reminds me on the seventh day God rested His great work
When I see the Eight, I think of the eight persons God saved He destroyed this old world There was Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives And when I look at the Nine, I of the lepers Our Saviour
And nine out of the ten, didn't even Him And I see the Ten, I think of the Ten Commandments God handed to Moses on the table of stone I look at the King
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Heaven and the Jack or Knave 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 of weeks in a year 4 suits, the number 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 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