Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses guitar chord
Three Wooden Crosses
Randy Travis
Capo 1st Fret
[Intro] C C/B Am Am/B
C C/B Am F C
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher, ridin' on a midnight bus, bound for
G C C/B Am F
Mexico. One was headed for vacation, one for higher education, and two of them were
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Searchin? for lost souls. That driver never, ever saw the stop sign, and eighteen-
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Wheelers can't stop on a dime.
[Chorus]
C C/B Am F
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway. ____ why there's not four of
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Them heaven only knows. I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind
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You. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
C C/B Am F C Am
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eightty acres, a faith and love for growin' things in his
G C C/B Am
Young son's heart. And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children and did
F G C F
Her best to Give?em all a better start. And that preacher whispered, "Can't you see the
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Promised land?? as he laid his bloodstained Bible in that hooker's hand.
[Chorus]
C C/B Am F
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway. ____ why there's not four of
C G C C/B Am
Them heaven only knows. I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind
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You. It's what you leave behind you when you go.
[Bridge]
Am C F C G
That's a story that our preacher told last Sunday, as he held that blood-stained Bible up for
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All of us to see. 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]
C C/B Am F
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway. ____ why there's not four of
C G C C/B Am
Them now I guess we know. It?s not what you take when you leave this world behind
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You. It's what you leave behind you when you go. There are three wooden crosses on the
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Right side of the highway.
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