When I first heard this song, I was a boy growing up in the state of South Carolina The song had been written and by a man named T. Texas
The song in original form related to something that Happened during the World War Last year, early in 1991, when were going kinda crazy Over on the side 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 left like it's all of these years you can't improve upon perfection I'd like to dedicate tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, loved ones And that loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Saudi Arabian And a young sat alone in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his and children back home in the United States Rested on a table
His mind began to across the miles Back to Sunday mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he knew that when this day in America
His family would go to church to for his well-being And his safe The young soldier reached his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to spread them out across his About that time, one of his came by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the soldier "I'm gonna spend a little quiet time the Lord"
"Looks like to me you're cards," his friend said "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and we can't Display our religion in public, here, I brought along deck Of cards" and with that, the young boy started his
You see when I look at the Ace, It me That there is but one God and the Deuce reminds me 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 four Who the Gospel
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And when I see the Five, I think of the five virgins Who trimmed lamps, there were ten of them Five were and were saved, five were 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 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 He destroyed this old world There was Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives And when I look at the Nine, I think of the Our cleansed
And nine out of the ten, even thank Him And when I see the Ten, I of the Ten Commandments God handed down to on the table of stone When I look at the
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Queen of Heaven and the or Knave is the Devil
I count the number of spots on a deck of cards
I 365, the number of days in a year There's 52 cards, the number of weeks in a 4 suits, the number of weeks in a month 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 Prayer
And friends, story is true I know I know that soldier