When I heard this 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. Texas
The in it's original form related to something that Happened during the World War Last year, early in 1991, when things going kinda crazy Over on the other side of the world, I this old song
And I rewrote the part of it to fit the situation The second of it I left like it's been all of these years you can't improve upon perfection I'd like to dedicate this to all the Veterans
To families, their loved ones And that loves this country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Arabian desert And a young soldier sat alone in his tent, deep in A picture of his wife and children back home in the United on a table nearby
His mind began to across the miles to other Sunday mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he of home And he knew that when this day in America
His would go to church to pray for his well-being And his return The young reached into his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to spread them out his bunk About time, one of his buddies came by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the soldier "I'm spend a little quiet time with the Lord"
"Looks like to me you're playing cards," his said "No, you see, I don't have my Bible and we can't our religion in public, here, I brought along this deck Of cards" and with that, the boy started his story
You see I look 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
When I look at the Trey, I of the Father, the Son And the Ghost When I see the Four, I'm reminded of the Evangelists Who the Gospel
was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John And when I see the Five, I think of the wise virgins Who their lamps, there were ten of them were wise and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out
And I look at the Six, I'm reminded that in six days God this great heaven and earth The Seven reminds me on the seventh day God rested from His work
When I see the Eight, I of the eight righteous persons God saved when He destroyed old world There was Noah, his wife, their three sons and wives And I look at the Nine, I think of the lepers Our Saviour
And nine out of the ten, didn't even Him And I see the Ten, I think of the Ten Commandments God handed down to Moses on the of stone When I at the King
It reminds me there is but one King of Heaven God The Queen me of the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
When I count the number of spots on a of cards
I find 365, the of days in a year 52 cards, the number of weeks in a year There's 4 suits, the number of weeks in a 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 deck of serves me as a Bible As an and as a Prayer Book
And friends, story is true I know because I know that