Randy Travis – Three Wooden Crosses (Ukulele)

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A farmer and a teacher,   a hooker and a preacher

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ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico

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One was headed for vacation, one for higher education

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and two of them were searchin' for lost souls

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That driver never ever saw the stop sign

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and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a dime

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There are three wooden crosses

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on the right side of the highway

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

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I guess it's, not what you take

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when you leave this world behind you

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It's what you leave behind you when you go

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That farmer left a harvest,   a home and eighty acres

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the faith and love for growin' things

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in his young son's heart

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And that teacher left her wisdom

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in the minds of lots of children

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Did her best to give 'em all a better start

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And that preacher whispered,

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"Can't you see that promised land?"

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as he laid his bloodstained Bible

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in that hooker's hand

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There are three wooden crosses

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on the right side of the highway

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

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I guess it's, not what you take

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when you leave this world behind you

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It's what you leave behind you when you go

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

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as he held that bloodstained Bible up

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for all of us to see

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He said, bless the farmer, and the teacher,

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and that preacher

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who gave this Bible to my momma, who read it to me

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There are three wooden crosses

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on the right side of the highway

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

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It's not what you take,

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when you leave this world behind you

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It's what you leave behind you when you go

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There are three wooden crosses

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on the right side of the highway