When I first this song, I was a little boy growing up Down in the of South Carolina The song had written and recorded by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's form related to something that Happened during the second War Last year, in 1991, when things were going kinda crazy Over on the other side of the world, I this old song
And I rewrote the first part of it to fit the The second of it I left like it's been all of these years Because you can't improve perfection I'd to dedicate this tonight to all the Veterans
To their families, their loved And everybody loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Saudi Arabian And a young sat alone in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and children back in the United States on a table nearby
His mind to wander across the miles Back to other Sunday that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he of home And he that when this day dawned in America
His would go to church to pray for his well-being And his safe The young reached into his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to spread 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 quiet 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 along this Of cards" and with that, the boy started his story
You see I look 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 look at the Trey, I of the Father, the Son And the Holy I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four Evangelists Who preached the
There was Matthew, Mark, and John And when I see the Five, I of the five wise virgins Who trimmed their lamps, were ten of them Five were wise and were saved, five foolish and were shut out
And when I at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made this heaven and earth The Seven me that on the seventh day God rested from His great
When I see the Eight, I think of the eight righteous God saved when He destroyed this old 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 Moses on the of stone I look at the King
It reminds me that is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Virgin Mary Queen of Heaven and the Jack or Knave is the
When I the number of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of days in a There's 52 cards, the number of weeks in a 4 suits, the number of weeks in a month There's 12 picture cards, the number of months in a There's 13 tricks, the number of in a quarter
So you see, my This of cards serves me as a Bible As an Almanac and as a Prayer
And friends, this is true I know because I know soldier