Three Wooden Crosses歌词

[00:12.52]A farmer and a teacher a hooker and a preacher
[00:18.59]Ridin on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
[00:24.42]One s headed for vacation one for higher education
[00:30.65]An two of them were searchin for lost souls
[00:36.56]That driver never ever saw the stop sign
[00:42.85]An eighteen wheelers can t stop on a dime
[00:48.31]There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
[00:55.49]Why there s not four of them
[00:58.09]Heaven only knows
[01:00.36]I guess it s not what you take
[01:03.44]when you leave this world behind you
[01:07.07]It s what you leave behind you when you go
[01:13.03]That farmer left a harvest
[01:16.19]a home and eighty acres
[01:19.36]The faith an love for growin things in his young son s heart
[01:24.94]An that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children
[01:31.14]Did her best to give em all a better start
[01:37.20]An that preacher whispered
[01:38.97]Can t you see the Promised Land
[01:42.64]As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker s hand
[01:49.04]There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
[01:56.23]Why there s not four of them
[01:58.86]Heaven only knows
[02:01.04]I guess it s not what you take
[02:04.25]when you leave this world behind you
[02:07.83]It s what you leave behind you when you go
[02:13.74]That s the story that our preacher told last Sunday
[02:19.96]As he held that blood-stained bible up for all of us to see
[02:25.08]He said Bless the farmer and the teacher an the preacher
[02:31.45]Who gave this Bible to my mamma who read it to me
[02:40.66]There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
[02:47.85]Why there s not four of them now I guess we know
[02:53.84]It s not what you take when you leave this world behind you
[02:59.40]It s what you leave behind you when you go
[03:04.91]There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway
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