WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses Chords | Ver. 6
Key of D (NO CAPO)
[Verse 1]
D
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher
G D A
Riding on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
D B
One was headed for vacation, one for higher education
G A D
And two of them were searchin' for a lost souls
G A
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
G A
And eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime??..There are
[Chorus]
D
Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
G D A
Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows
D B
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you
G A D
It's what you leave behind you when you go
[Verse 2]
D
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres
G D A
A faith and love for growin' things in his young son's heart
D B
And that teacher left her wisdom in the mind's of lots of children
G A D
And did her best to give em' all a better start
G A
And that preacher whispered, "can't you see the promised land?"
G A
As he lay his bloodstained bible in that hooker's hand???There are
[Chorus]
D
Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
G D A
Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows
D B
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you
G A D
It's what you leave behind you when you go
[Verse 3]
B A G
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday
D A
As he held that bloodstained bible up for all of us to see
B A G
He said, "bless the farmer and the teacher and the preacher"
G A
Who gave this bible to my mama, who read it to me???..There are
[Chorus]
D
Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
G D A
Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows
D B
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you
G A D
It's what you leave behind you when you go
[Outro]
D B D
There are, three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
