When I first heard this song, I was a little boy up Down in the state of Carolina The song had written and recorded by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's original form related to that Happened the second World War Last year, early in 1991, when were going kinda crazy on the other side of the world, I remembered this old song
And I the first 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 upon perfection I'd like to dedicate this tonight to all the
To their families, loved ones And everybody that loves this
It was a hot Sunday morning in the Saudi Arabian desert And a young soldier sat in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and children back home in the United on a table nearby
His mind began to across the miles Back to other Sunday that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he knew that this day dawned in America
His family would go to to pray for his well-being And his return The young soldier reached his bag and he took out A deck of playing
He began to spread out across his bunk that time, one of his buddies came by and said "You get up a game?", "No," the soldier replied "I'm gonna spend a little quiet 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 young boy his story
You see when I at the Ace, It reminded me That there is but one God and the Deuce reminds me 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
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And I see the Five, I think of the five wise virgins Who trimmed lamps, there were ten of them Five were 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 Seven reminds me on the seventh day God from His great work
When I see the Eight, I think of the eight persons God when He destroyed this old world was Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives And when I look at the Nine, I think of the Our cleansed
And nine out of the ten, didn't even Him And when I see the Ten, I of the Ten Commandments God handed down to on the table of stone When I look at the
It me that there is but one King of Heaven God The Queen me of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Heaven and the or Knave is the Devil
When I count the of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year There's 52 cards, the number of weeks in a There's 4 suits, the number of in a month There's 12 picture cards, the number of in a year There's 13 tricks, the of weeks in a quarter
So you see, my This deck of cards me as a Bible As an Almanac and as a Prayer
And friends, story is true I know because I know that