When I first heard song, I was a little boy growing up in the state of South Carolina The song had written and recorded by a man named T. Tyler
The song in it's original form related to that Happened the second World War Last year, early in 1991, when things were going kinda Over on the other of the world, I remembered this old song
And I rewrote the first part of it to fit the The second part of it I left like 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 that loves this
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Saudi desert And a soldier sat alone in his tent, deep in thought A picture of his wife and back home in the United States on a table nearby
His mind began to across the miles Back to other mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he of home And he knew that when day dawned in America
His would go to church to pray for his well-being And his return The young soldier into his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to them out across his bunk About that time, one of his buddies by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the replied "I'm gonna spend a quiet time with the Lord"
"Looks like to me playing cards," his friend said "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and since we Display our religion in public, here, I brought along deck Of cards" and with that, the young boy started his
You see I look at the Ace, It reminded me That there is but one God and the Deuce 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 Ghost I see the Four, I'm reminded of the four Evangelists Who the Gospel
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And when I see the Five, I of the five wise virgins Who trimmed lamps, there were ten of them Five were wise and were saved, five were foolish and shut out
And I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God made this heaven and earth The reminds me that on the seventh day God from His great work
When I see the Eight, I think of the eight persons God saved when He destroyed this old There was Noah, his wife, their 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 thank Him And I see the Ten, I think of the Ten Commandments God handed down to on the table of stone When I at the King
It reminds me that there is but one of Heaven God The reminds me of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of Heaven and the or Knave is the Devil
When I count the number of spots on a of cards
I find 365, the number of in a year 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 in a year 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 Book
And friends, this story is I because I know that soldier