Three wooden crosses     (video)

 

    C - Em - Am - G

 

         C                                   Am

1. A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher

      F                                     C                   G

    ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.

                      C                                         Am 

    One was headed for vacation, one for higher education,

              F                          G                        C

    and two of them were searchin' for lost souls.

              Dm                                     G

    That driver never ever saw the stop sign,

            Dm                                                  G

    and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a dime.

 

                 - C                         Em                  Am                      C

There are       three wooden crosses, on the right side of the highway,

F                                                   C                    G

    why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.

                  - C                      Em                   Am                          C

I guess it's,      not what you take when you leave this world behind you,

           F                       G                           C

it's what you leave behind you when you go.

 

             C                                   Am

2. That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres

           F                                                C                             G

    the faith and love for growin' things in his young son’s heart,

                    C                                             Am

    And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children,

                  F                     G                  C

    did her best to give'em all a better start.

                      Dm                                                           G

    And that preacher whispered, "Can't you see that promised land ?"

                             Dm                                                  G

    as he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker’s hand.

 

+  CHORUS

 

                       Am                   G                        F

+  That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday,

               C                                                    G

   as he held that blood-stained Bible up for all of us to see.

                                  Am                      G                           F

    He said, bless the farmer, and the teacher, and that preacher

                           Dm                                       G                - G7

    who gave this Bible to my Momma, who read it to me.

 

                 - C                         Em                  Am                      C

There are       three wooden crosses, on the right side of the highway,

F                                                   C                        G

    why there's not four of them, now I guess we know.

 C                       Em                    Am                         C

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,

           F                       G                           C

it's what you leave behind you when you go.

 

                     - C                         Em                  Am           F         C

+  There are       three wooden crosses, on the right side of the highway.

 

 

(orig. = capo 1st)    (Randy Travis)