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 during the second World War Last year, early in 1991, when things were kinda crazy Over on the other side of the world, I remembered 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 you can't improve upon perfection I'd like to this tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, their ones And everybody that loves country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Arabian desert And a young soldier sat alone in his tent, deep in A picture of his wife and children back home in the States Rested on a nearby
His mind began to wander across the Back to other Sunday mornings that seemed so ago Now and so far away, he of home And he knew when this day dawned in America
His family go to church to pray for his well-being And his return The young soldier reached his bag and he took out A deck of playing
He to spread them out across his bunk that time, one of his buddies came by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the soldier "I'm gonna spend a little quiet time the Lord"
"Looks to me you're playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and since we Display our religion in public, here, I along this deck Of cards" and with that, the young boy started his
You see when I 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 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 preached the
There was Matthew, Mark, and John And when I see the Five, I think of the wise virgins Who trimmed their lamps, there were ten of Five wise 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 and earth The Seven reminds me on the seventh day God rested from His work
When I see the Eight, I of the eight righteous persons God when He destroyed this old world There was Noah, his wife, three sons and their wives And when I 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 to Moses 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 number of on a deck of cards
I 365, the number of days in a year There's 52 cards, the number of weeks in a There's 4 suits, the number of weeks in a 12 picture cards, the number of months in a year There's 13 tricks, the 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, story is true I because I know that soldier