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Three Wooden Crosses

Biography:

Randy Travis (born Randy Bruce Traywick, May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina) is an American multiple Grammy Award and Dove Award-winning American country singer. Active since 1985, he has recorded more than a dozen studio albums to date, in addition to charting more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.

Travis was born in Marshville, North Carolina, the second of six children of Bobbie, a textile factory worker, and Harold Traywick, a horse breeder, turkey farmer, and construction business owner.

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Alright, so since I'm a girl and Randy Travis has a very low voice, I have put
this version into a higher key for those of you who cannot sing as low as Randy Travis.

Capo 3
Key: G

G, Em, C, D

G Em
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher
C D
Riding on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
G Em
One was headed for vacation, one for higher education
C D
And two of them were searchin' for a lost soul
Em D
Well that driver never ever saw the stop sign
C D-----hang chord
And eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime

There are

Chorus:
G Em C
Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
D G
Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows
Em
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you
C D-hang chord
It's what you leave behind you when you go

G, Em, C, D

Verse:
G Em
Well that farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres
C D
A faith and love for growin' things in his young son's heart
G Em
And that teacher left her wisdom in the mind's of lots of children
C D
Did her best to give them all a better start
Em D
And that preacher whispered, "can't you see the promised land?"
C D-----hand chord
As he lay his bloodstained bible in that hooker's hand

There are

Chorus:
G Em C
Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
D G
Why there's not four of them, heaven only knows
Em
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you
C D-hang chord
It's what you leave behind you when you go

G, Em, C, D

Bridge:
Em D C
Well that's the story that our preacher told last sunday
G D
As he held that bloodstained bible up for all of us to see
Em D C
He said, "bless the farmer and the teacher and the preacher"
C D-----------------hang chord
Who gave this bible to my mama, who read it to me

There are

Chorus:
G Em C
Three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
D G
Why there's not four of them, now I guess we know
Em
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you
C D-hang chord
It's what you leave behind you when you go

G, Em, C, D and finish with G