When I first 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 song in original form related to something that Happened during the second War Last year, early in 1991, when things going kinda crazy Over on the other side of the world, I remembered this old
And I rewrote the part 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 to dedicate this tonight to all the Veterans
To families, their loved ones And that loves this country
It was a sweltering hot morning in the Saudi Arabian desert And a young soldier sat alone in his tent, in thought A picture of his wife and children back home in the United Rested on a nearby
His mind began to across the miles Back to other Sunday mornings that seemed so ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he knew that this day dawned in America
His family would go to church to pray for his And his safe The young reached into 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 soldier "I'm gonna spend a little time with the Lord"
"Looks like to me you're playing cards," his said "No, you see, I don't have my and since we can't Display our religion in public, here, I brought this deck Of cards" and that, the young boy started his story
You see when I look at the Ace, It me there is but one God and the Deuce reminds me that The Bible is divided into two The Old and the New
When I look at the Trey, I of the Father, the Son And the Holy When I see the Four, I'm reminded of the Evangelists Who the Gospel
There was Matthew, Mark, and John And when I see the Five, I think of the five virgins Who trimmed lamps, there were ten of them were wise and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And when I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six God made this heaven and earth 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, their sons and their wives And I look at the Nine, I think of the lepers Our Saviour
And out of the ten, didn't even thank Him And when I see the Ten, I think of the Ten God handed down to on the table of stone I look at the King
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
When I count the of spots on a deck of cards
I 365, the number of days in a year There's 52 cards, the of weeks in a year There's 4 suits, the number of weeks in a 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 deck of serves me as a Bible As an and as a Prayer Book
And friends, story is true I because I know that soldier