The song is in C#, so the capo is a lifesaver. There are a few differences
from the version that I see already submitted. The chords I use follow the
base line and seem to support the tune really well.
CAPO on 1st Fret
Three Wooden Crosses - Rise and Shine CD - Randy Travis
contributed by Jeff Eberle & David Stone
C Em Am C
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher,
F C G
Riding on a midnight bus bound for Mexico.
C Em Am C
One's headed for vacation, one for higher education,
F G C
And two of them were searching for lost souls.
Dm G
That driver never ever saw the stop sign.
Dm G
And eighteen wheelers can't stop on a dime.
C Em Am C
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
F C G
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.
C Em Am
C
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
F G C
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
C Em Am C
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,
F C
G
The faith and love for growing things in his young son's heart.
C Em Am C
And that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
F G C
Did her best to give 'em all a better start.
Dm G
And that preacher whispered "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
Dm G
As he laid his blood stained bible in that hooker's hand.
C Em Am C
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
F C G
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.
C Em Am
C
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
F G C
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
Am G F
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday.
C G
As he held that blood-stained bible up, For all of us to see.
Am G F
He said, "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, and the preacher,
Dm G
Who gave this Bible to my mamma... Who read it to me."
C Em Am C
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
F C G
Why there's not four of them, now I guess we know.
C Em Am C
It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
F G C
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
C Em Am
C
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway...
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