When I heard this song, I was a little boy growing up in the state of South Carolina The had been written and recorded by a man named T. Tyler
The in it's original form related to something that Happened during the World War Last year, early in 1991, things were going kinda crazy on the other side of the world, I remembered this old song
And I rewrote the first of it to fit the situation The second part of it I left like been all of these years Because you can't improve perfection I'd like to dedicate this tonight to all the
To their families, their ones And everybody loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday in the Saudi Arabian desert And a young sat alone in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and children back home in the States on a table nearby
His mind to wander across the miles Back to other Sunday mornings 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 pray for his And his return The young soldier reached his bag and he took out A deck of playing
He began to spread them out across his About time, one of his buddies 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 playing cards," his friend "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and since we Display our in public, here, I brought along this 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 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 When I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four Who preached the
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And when I see the Five, I think of the five virgins Who trimmed their lamps, there ten of them Five were wise and 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 Seven me that on the seventh day God rested from His great
I see the Eight, I think 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 Saviour
And nine out of the ten, even thank Him And when I see the Ten, I think of the Ten God handed to Moses on the table of stone When I 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 on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year 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 number of in a year There's 13 tricks, the number of in a quarter
So you see, my deck of cards serves me as a Bible As an and as a Prayer Book
And friends, story is true I know I know that soldier