Three Wooden Crosses - Randy Travis | Guitar Chords | VChords

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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A farmer and a teacher,   a hooker and a preacher
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Riding 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 searching for lost souls

[Pre-Chorus (1)]
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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

[Chorus (1)]
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There are three wooden crosses 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 when you leave this world behind     you
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It's what you leave behind you when you go

[Verse 2]
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That farmer left a harvest,   a home, and eighty acres
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The faith and love for growing things in his young son's heart
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And that teacher left her wisdom   in the minds of lots of children
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And did her best to give them all a better start

[Pre-Chorus (2)]
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And that preacher whis pered, "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
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As he laid his bloodstained Bible in that hooker's hand



[Bridge]
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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 for all of us to see
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He said, "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, and the preacher
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Who gave this Bible to my mama, who read it to me"

[Chorus (2)]
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There are three wooden crosses 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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I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind     you
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It's what you leave behind you when you go

[Outro]
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There are three wooden crosses on the right  side     of the highway