Name: Three Wooden Crosses
Duration: 3 min 20 s
Channel: Randy Travis
Description: "Three Wooden Crosses" is a song by The Shadow's.

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The Shadow's

A Duet Existing Of Jerry Albritton: Singer, Producer, Sound Engineer, Studio Owner, Songwriter and Who Was The Lead Singer With The Grease Lightnin' Band In The

Song Info

Genre

Rock • Classic Rock

Charts

Peak #346

Peak in subgenre #29

Author

Randy Travis

Rights

Shadow Productions/SNOCAP

Uploaded

August 16, 2009

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.0 MB • 128 kbps • 3:20

Lyrics

A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher,
Ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.
One's headed for vacation, one for higher education,
An' two of them were searchin' for lost souls.
That driver never ever saw the stop sign.
An' 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 an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.
An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
Did her best to give 'em all a better start.
An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's 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 blood-stained bible up,
For all of us to see.
He said: "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an' the preacher;
"Who gave this Bible to my mamma,
"Who read it to me."

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.