When I first heard song, I was a little boy growing up Down in the state of Carolina The song had been written and recorded by a man T. Tyler
The song in it's original form related to that Happened during the second War Last year, early in 1991, when things were going kinda Over on the other side of the world, I remembered this old
And I rewrote the first of it to fit the situation The second part of it I left like it's been all of years Because you can't improve upon I'd like to this tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, loved ones And that 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 back home in the United States Rested on a nearby
His began to wander across the miles Back to other mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he of home And he knew that this day dawned in America
His family go to church to pray for his well-being And his safe The young soldier reached into his bag and he out A deck of playing
He to spread them out across his bunk 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 time with the Lord"
"Looks like to me playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I have my Bible and since we can't Display our religion in public, here, I brought along deck Of cards" and with that, the 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 is divided into two parts The Old and the New
I look at the Trey, I think of the Father, the Son And the Holy When I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four Who the Gospel
There was Matthew, Mark, and John And when I see the Five, I think of the wise virgins Who their lamps, there were ten of them Five were wise and were saved, five were and were shut out
And I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made this great and earth The Seven me that on the seventh day God rested His great work
When I see the Eight, I think of the eight 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 think of the Our cleansed
And nine out of the ten, didn't thank Him And when I see the Ten, I of the Ten Commandments God handed down to Moses on the table of When I at the King
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Blessed Mary Queen of Heaven and the Jack or is the Devil
When I the number of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year There's 52 cards, the of weeks in a year There's 4 suits, the of weeks in a month There's 12 cards, the number of months in a year There's 13 tricks, the number of in a quarter
So you see, my This deck of cards serves me as a As an Almanac and as a Book
And friends, story is true I know because I that soldier