Three Wooden Crosses Lyrics

Randy Travis
Miscellaneous
Three Wooden Crosses
A farmer and a teacher
A hoooker and a preacher
Riding on a midnight bus
bound for Mexico
One was heading for vacation
A higher education
and two of them where searching for lost souls

That driver never, ever saw the stop sign
And eighteen wheelers cant stop on a dime

(Chours) There are three wooden crosses
on the right side of the highway
Why there aint four of them
heaven only knows
I guess its not what you take when you leave this world behind you
Its what you leave behind you when you go

That farmer left a harvest
a home and eighty acres
The faith and love for growing things
in his young sons heart
And that teacher left her wisdom
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in the minds if lots of childern
did her best to give them all a better start
And that preacher whispered cant you see the promise land
as he laid his blood stained bible in that hookers hand

(Chours) There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
Why there aint four of them
heaven only knows
I guess its not what you take when you leave this world behind you
Its what you leave behind you when you go

Now thats the story that our preacher told last sunday
As he held that blood stained bible up
for all of us to see
He said bless the farmer, and the teacher, and the preacher
Who gave this bible to my mama
Who read it to me

There are three wooden crosees on the right side of the highway
Why there aint four of them
Now i guess we know
Its not what you take when you leave this world behind you
Its what you leave behind you when you go

There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway