When I heard this song, I was a little boy growing up Down in the state of Carolina The song had been written and by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's original related to something that Happened during the second War Last year, early in 1991, when things were kinda crazy Over on the other of the world, I remembered this old song
And I rewrote the part of it to fit the situation The second part of it I like it's been all of these years Because you can't improve perfection I'd like to dedicate this to all the Veterans
To their families, their ones And everybody loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Arabian desert And a young soldier sat alone in his tent, in thought A of his wife and children back home in the United States Rested on a nearby
His began to wander across the miles Back to other Sunday mornings that so long ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he knew that when day dawned 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 deck of cards
He began to spread them out across his About time, one of his buddies came by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the replied "I'm gonna spend a quiet time with the Lord"
"Looks to me you're playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I have my Bible and since we can't Display our religion in public, here, I 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 Bible is 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 wise virgins Who trimmed their lamps, there were ten of Five were wise and saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And when I look at the Six, I'm that in six days God made this heaven and earth The Seven reminds me that on the day God rested from His work
When I see the Eight, I think of the righteous persons God saved when He this old world There was Noah, his wife, their three sons and wives And when I look at the Nine, I 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 table of I look at the King
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Blessed Mary Queen of and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
I count the number of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year There's 52 cards, the number of in a year 4 suits, the number of weeks in a month There's 12 picture cards, the number of 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 and as a Prayer Book
And friends, this is true I know because I know soldier