Chords for Randy Travis - Three Wooden Crosses (Acoustic) [HD] 2013

_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ [G] _
[C] A farmer and a teacher, [Am] a hooker and a preacher, _
[F] riding on a midnight bus down [G] from Mexico.
[C] One was headed for [G] vacation, one [Am] for higher education. _
[F] [G] Two of them were searching for a [C] lost soul.
[A] And that driver never ever [G] saw a stop sign. _
[Dm] And 18 wheelers can't [G] stop on a dime.
_ [C] There are three wooden crosses on [Am] the right side of [D] the highway.
[F] Why there's not four of them, heaven [G] only knows.
Yes, it's not what you take when [Am] you prove that.
Whatever those [F] lines are, it's what you [G] leave behind you when [C] you go.
That's just going to happen every once in a while. _
_ That farmer left a [G] harvest, [Am] a home and 80 acres,
[F] the faith and love for growing [C] things in his young [G] son's heart.
[C] That teacher left [G] her wisdom [Am] in the minds of lots of children.
[F] Did her best [C] to give them all a better start.
[Dm] That preacher whispered, can't [G] you see the promise I am?
As he laid [Dm] that bloodstained Bible in [G] that hooker's hand.
[C] There are three wooden crosses [Am] on the right side of the highway.
[F] Why there's not four of [C] them, heaven [G] only knows.
Yes, it's not what you take when [Am] you leave this world behind you.
[F] It's what you leave [G] behind you when you [C] go.
_ That's the [Dm] story that our [Am] preacher told last Sunday.
As he held that [A] bloodstained Bible [G] up for all of us to see,
he said, bless the [A] teacher [F] and that preacher
who gave [Dm] this Bible to my mama, [G] who read it to me. _
[C] There are three wooden crosses [Am] on the right side of the [E] highway.
[F] Why there's not four of them, now [D] I guess we know.
[C] It's [Bm] not what you take [Am] when you leave this world behind you.
[F] It's what you [D] leave behind you [C] when you go.
_ There [C] are three [B] wooden crosses [A] on the [Am] right side of [C#m] the highway.
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