Three Wooden Crosses - Randy Travis [Intro] [C] [Am] Verse 1: [C] A farmer and a teacher, a [Am] hooker and a preacher [F] ridin' on a midnight bus [C] bound for Mexi[G]co One was [C] headed for vacation, one for [Am] higher education and [F] two of them were [G] searchin' for lost [C] souls [Pre-chorus 1] That [Dm] driver never ever saw the [G] stop sign and [Dm] eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a [G] dime. |[Chorus] |There are [C] three wooden crosses, |on the [Am] right side of the highway |[F] Why there's not four of them, [C] Heaven only [G] knows |I guess it's, [C] not what you take |when you [Am] leave this world behind you |It's [F] what you leave be[G]hind you when you [C] go Verse 2: [C] That farmer left a harvest, a [Am] home and eighty acres the [F] faith and love for growin' things [C] in his young sons [G] heart And that [C] teacher left her wisdom in the [Am] minds of lots of children Did her [F] best to give'em [G] all a better [C] start [Pre-chorus] And that [Dm] preacher whispered, "Can't you see that [G] promised land?" as he laid his [Dm] blood-stained bible in that hookers [G] hand [Chorus] [Bridge] That's the [Am] story that our [G] preacher told last [F] Sunday, as he [C] held that blood-stained bible up for [G] all of us to see He said, bless the [Am] farmer, and the teacher, and that [F] preacher Who [F] gave this [Dm] Bible to my Momma, Who [G] read it to me |[Chorus] |There are [C] three wooden crosses |on the [Am] right side of the highway |[F] why there's not four of them, [C] now I guess we [G] know |[C] It's not what you take, |when you [Am] leave this world behind you, |It's [F] what you leave be[G]hind you when you [C] go [Outro] There are [C] three wooden crosses on the [Am] right side of the [C] highway