Randy Travis – Three Wooden Crosses (Guitar)

C                     C/B   Am                    Am7/G
A farmer and a teacher,   a hooker and a preacher

F                        C             G
ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico

        C                  C/B       Am               Am7/G
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    Gsus4
and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a dime.

          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses,

       Am                Am7/G
on the right side of the highway

F                             C           G
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows

              C            C/B
I guess it's, not what you take

         Am                Am7/G
when you leave this world behind you

     F                G                 C
It's what you leave behind you when you go

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That farmer left a harvest,   a home and eighty acres

    F
the faith and love for growin' things

C                 G
in his young sons heart

         C                      C/B
And that teacher left her wisdom

       Am                        Am7/G
in the minds of lots of children

        F               G            C
Did her best to give'em all a better start

         Dm
And that preacher whispered,

                    G
"Can't you see that promised land?"

               Dm
as he laid his blood-stained bible

                G    Gsus4
in that hookers hand

          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses

       Am                Am7/G
on the right side of the highway

F                             C           G
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows

             C             C/B
I guess it's, not what you take

         Am                Am7/G
when you leave this world behind you

     F                G                 C
it's what you leave behind you when you go

           Am             G                  F
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday,

      C
as he held that blood-stained bible up

    G            Gsus4
for all of us to see

                   Am                Am7/G
He said, bless the farmer, and the teacher,

         F
and that preacher

    F         Dm                     G          Gsus4
Who gave this Bible to my Momma, Who read it to me

          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses

       Am                Am7/G
on the right side of the highway

F                            C               G
why there's not four of them, now I guess we know

C                 C/B
It's not what you take,

         Am                Am7/G
when you leave this world behind you,

     F                G                 C
It's what you leave behind you when you go

          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses

       Am         Am7/G  C
on the right side of the highway