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For the set of items used for playing card games, see Deck of cards.

"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation song that was popularized in the fields of both country and popular music, first during the late s.

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This song, which relates the tale of a young American soldier arrested and charged with playing cards during a church service, first became a hit in the U.S. in by country musician T. Texas Tyler.

Though Tyler wrote the spoken-word piece, the earliest known reference is to be found in an account/common-place book belonging to Mary Bacon, a British farmer's wife, dated 20 April The story of the soldier can be found in full in Mary Bacon's World.

A farmer's wife in eighteenth-century Hampshire, published by Threshold Press (). The folk story was later recorded in a 19th-century British publication entitled The Soldier's Almanack, Bible And Prayer Book.^[1]

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The song is set during World War II, where a group of U.S.

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