Three Wooden Crosses Randy Travis
Three Wooden Crosses - Rise and Shine CD - Randy Travis
contributed by Jeff Eberle & David Stone
CAPO on 1st Fret
A f[C]armer and a teache[Em]r, a hooker[Am] and a preacher,[C]
[F]Riding on a midnight bus bound for M[C]exico.[G]
[C]One's headed for vacatio[Em]n, one for [Am]higher education,[C]
[F]And two of them were searching fo[G]r lost souls.[C]
[Dm]That driver never ever saw the stop sign.[G]
[Dm]And eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime.[G]
There are thr[C]ee wooden crosses on [Em]the right side of t[Am]he highway,[C]
[F]Why there's not four of them, Heaven only k[C]nows.[G]
[C] [Em] [Am]
[C]I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
[F]It's what you leave behind [G]you when you go.[C]
[C]That farmer left a harvest[Em], a home an[Am]d eighty acres,[C]
[F] [C]
[G]The faith and love for growing things in his young son's heart.
[C] [Em] [Am] [C]
And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
[F]Did her best to give 'em all a [G]better start.[C]
[Dm]And that preacher whispered "Can't you see the Promised Land?"[G]
[Dm]As he laid his blood stained bible in that hooker's hand.[G]
There are t[C]hree wooden crosses on [Em]the right side of th[Am]e highway,[C]
[F]Why there's not four of them, Heaven only kno[C]ws.[G]
[C] [Em] [Am]
[C]I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
[F]It's what you leave behind [G]you when you go.[C]
That's the st[Am]ory that our preach[G]er told last Sunday.[F]
As he [C]held that blood-stained bible up, For all of us to [G]see.
He said, "Bless the farmer,[Am] and the teacher, a[G]nd the preacher,[F]
Who gave this Bible[Dm] to my mamma... Who read it to me[G]."
There are [C]three wooden crosses on[Em] the right side of [Am]the highway,[C]
[F]Why there's not four of them, now I guess we [C]know.[G]
[C]It's not what you take when [Em]you leave this w[Am]orld behind you,[C]
[F]It's what you leave behind you wh[G]en you go.[C]
[C] [Em] [Am]
[C]There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway...
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