When I first heard song, I was a little boy growing up Down in the state of South The song had been and recorded by a man named T. Texas
The song in it's original form related to that Happened during the World War Last year, early in 1991, things 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 part of it I left like it's 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 loved And everybody that loves country
It was a sweltering hot Sunday morning in the Arabian desert And a young 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 wander across the Back to Sunday mornings that seemed so long ago Now and so far away, he thought of And he knew that when day dawned in America
His family go to church to pray for his well-being And his safe The young soldier into his bag and he took out A of playing cards
He began to spread them out his bunk that time, one of his buddies came by and said "You gonna get up a game?", "No," the replied "I'm gonna spend a little quiet time the Lord"
"Looks like to me you're playing cards," his said "No, you see, I don't my Bible and since we can't our religion in public, here, I brought along this 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 reminds me that The Bible is divided into two The Old and the New
When I at the Trey, I think 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 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 when I look at the Six, I'm that in six days God made great 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 There was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives And I look at the Nine, I think of the lepers 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 Moses on the of stone When I at the King
It reminds me there is but one King of Heaven God The Queen reminds me of the Virgin Mary Queen of and the Jack or Knave is the Devil
When I count the of spots on a deck of cards
I find 365, the of days in a year There's 52 cards, the number of in a year There's 4 suits, the number of in a month There's 12 picture cards, the number of months in a There's 13 tricks, the number of weeks in a
So you see, my This deck of cards serves me as a As an Almanac and as a Book
And friends, this is true I know because I know soldier