Three Wooden Crosses chords by Randy Travis

Chords with lyrics

Capo 3
Key: G+G

G, Em, C, D MajorD

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

There are

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

G, Em, C, D MajorD

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

There are

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

G, Em, C, D MajorD

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

There are


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

G, Em, C, D MajorD and finish with G+G