Capo 1st fret
Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher
ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
One was headed for vacation, one for higher education
and two of them were searchin' for lost souls
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a dime.
There are three wooden crosses,
on the right side of the highway
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows
I guess it's, not what you take
when you leave this world behind you
It's what you leave behind you when you go
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres
the faith and love for growin' things
in his young sons heart
And that teacher left her wisdom
in the minds of lots of children
Did her best to give'em all a better start
And that preacher whispered,
"Can't you see that promised land?"
as he laid his bloodstained bible
in that hookers hand
There are three wooden crosses
on the right side of the highway
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows
I guess it's, not what you take
when you leave this world behind you
it's what you leave behind you when you go
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday,
as he held that bloodstained bible up
for all of us to see
He said, bless the farmer, and the teacher,
and that preacher
Who gave this Bible to my Momma, Who read it to me
Chorus
There are three wooden crosses
on the right side of the highway
why there's not four of them, now I guess we know
It's not what you take,
when you leave this world behind you,
It's what you leave behind you when you go
There are three wooden crosses
on the right side of the highway