Intro: B B Abm Abm7  

Verse 1:
B                     B     Abm                   Abm7  
a farmer and a teacher,   a hooker and a preacher
E                        B             Gb
ridin' on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
        B                  B         Abm              Abm7  
One was headed for vacation, one for higher education
    E                Gb                 B
and two of them were searchin' for lost souls

Pre-chorus 1:
     Dbm                        Gb
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
    Dbm                               Gb   Gbsus4
and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a dime.

Chorus:
          B            B  
There are three wooden crosses,
       Abm               Abm7  
on the right side of the highway
E                             B           Gb
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows
              B            B  
I guess it's, not what you take
         Abm               Abm7  
when you leave this world behind you
     E                Gb                B
It's what you leave behind you when you go

Verse 2:
B                         B     Abm                   Abm7  
That farmer left a harvest,   a home and eighty acres
    E
the faith and love for growin' things
B                 Gb
in his young sons heart
         B                      B  
And that teacher left her wisdom
       Abm                       Abm7  
in the minds of lots of children
        E               Gb           B
Did her best to give'em all a better start

Pre-chorus:
         Dbm
And that preacher whispered,
                    Gb
"Can't you see that promised land?"
               Dbm
as he laid his blood-stained bible
                Gb   Gbsus4
in that hookers hand

Chorus:
          B            B  
There are three wooden crosses
       Abm               Abm7  
on the right side of the highway
E                             B           Gb
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows
             B             B  
I guess it's, not what you take
         Abm               Abm7  
when you leave this world behind you
     E                Gb                B
it's what you leave behind you when you go

Bridge:
           Abm            Gb                 E
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday,
      B
as he held that blood-stained bible up
    Gb           Gbsus4
for all of us to see
                   Abm               Abm7  
He said, bless the farmer, and the teacher,
         E
and that preacher
    E         Dbm                    Gb         Gbsus4
Who gave this Bible to my Momma, Who read it to me

Chorus:
          B            B  
There are three wooden crosses
       Abm               Abm7  
on the right side of the highway
E                            B               Gb
why there's not four of them, now I guess we know
B                 B  
It's not what you take,
         Abm               Abm7  
when you leave this world behind you,
     E                Gb                B
It's what you leave behind you when you go

Outro:
          B            B  
There are three wooden crosses
       Abm        Abm7    B
on the right side of the highway
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