The Deck of Cards
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the-deck-of-cards-204-7942060
title:
The Deck of Cards
text:
"The Deck of Cards" is a recitation song that was popularized in the fields of both country and popular music, first during the late 1940s. 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 1948 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 farme
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1940s recitation song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deck_of_Cards
date created:
2005-12-01T16:25:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T23:24:56Z
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