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