3 Wooden Crosses chords by Randy Travis

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC  E minor 7Em7  A minorAm  Am7/GAm7/G

Verse:p
C majorC           E minor 7Em7  A minorAm          Am7/GAm7/G
A augmentedA farmer and a teacher,  a hooker and a preacher
FF            C majorC       G+G
ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
    C majorC         E minor 7Em7    A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
One was headed for vacation, one for higher education
  FF        G+G         C majorC
and two of them were searchin' for lost souls
   DmDm             G+G
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
  DmDm                GsusGsus  G+G
and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a dime.

Chorus:
     C majorC      E minor 7Em7
There are three wooden crosses,
    A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
on the right side of the highway
FF               C majorC      G+G
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows
      C majorC       E minor 7Em7
I guess it's, not what you take
     A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
when you leave this world behind you
   FF        G+G         C majorC
It's what you leave behind you when you go

Verse 2:
C majorC             E minor 7Em7  A minorAm          Am7/GAm7/G
That farmer left a harvest,  a home and eighty acres
  FF
the faith and love for growin' things
C majorC         G+G
in his young sons heart
     C majorC           E minor 7Em7
And that teacher left her wisdom
    A minorAm            Am7/GAm7/G
in the minds of lots of children
FF            G+G      C majorC
Did her best to give'em all a better start
     DmDm
And that preacher whispered,
          G+G
"Can't you see that promised land?"
   DmDm
as he laid his bloodstained bible
    GsusGsus   G+G
in that hookers hand

Chorus:
     C majorC      E minor 7Em7
There are three wooden crosses
    A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
on the right side of the highway
FF               C majorC      G+G
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows
       C majorC       E minor 7Em7
I guess it's, not what you take
     A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
when you leave this world behind you
   FF        G+G         C majorC
it's what you leave behind you when you go

Tag:
      A minorAm       Am7/GAm7/G       FF
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday,
   C majorC
as he held that bloodstained bible up
  G+G
for all of us to see
    A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
He said, bless the farmer, and the teacher,
FF         F/E
and that preacher
  DmDm                GsusGsus    G+G GsusGsus G+G
Who gave this Bible to my Momma, Who read it to me

Chorus:
     C majorC      E minor 7Em7
There are three wooden crosses
    A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
on the right side of the highway
FF              C majorC        G+G
why there's not four of them, now I guess we know
C majorC         E minor 7Em7
It's not what you take,
     A minorAm        Am7/GAm7/G
when you leave this world behind you,
   FF        G+G         C majorC
It's what you leave behind you when you go

C majorC           E minor 7Em7
There are three wooden crosses
    A minorAm     Am7/GAm7/G C majorC
on the right side of the highway