Three Wooden Crosses Chords

Capo 1st fret

[Intro]
C   C/B   Am   Am7/G

[Verse 1]
C                     C/B   Am          
A farmer and a teacher,   a hooker and a
         Am7/G
preacher
F                        C         
ridin' on a midnight bus bound for 
   G
Mexico
       C                  C/B       
One was headed for vacation, one for 
Am               Am7/G
higher education
   F                G                  
and two of them were searchin' for lost 
C
souls

[Pre-chorus 1]
     Dm                         G
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
   Dm                                
and eighteen-wheelers can't stop on a 
G    Gsus4
dime.

[Chorus]
          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses,
       Am                Am7/G
on the right side of the highway
F                             C      
Why there's not four of them, Heaven 
    G
only knows
              C            C/B
I guess it's, not what you take
         Am                Am7/G
when you leave this world behind you
    F                G                 
It's what you leave behind you when you 
C
go

[Verse 2]
C                         C/B   Am      
That farmer left a harvest,   a home and
             Am7/G
eighty acres
    F
the faith and love for growin' things
C                 G
in his young sons heart
         C                      C/B
And that teacher left her wisdom
       Am                        Am7/G
in the minds of lots of children
       F               G            
Did her best to give'em all a better 
C
start

[Pre-chorus]
         Dm
And that preacher whispered,
                    G
"Can't you see that promised land?"
               Dm
as he laid his blood-stained bible
                G    Gsus4
in that hookers hand

[Chorus]
          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses
       Am                Am7/G
on the right side of the highway
F                             C      
Why there's not four of them, Heaven 
    G
only knows
             C             C/B
I guess it's, not what you take
         Am                Am7/G
when you leave this world behind you
    F                G                 
it's what you leave behind you when you 
C
go

[Bridge]
          Am             G             
That's the story that our preacher told 
    F
last Sunday,
      C
as he held that blood-stained bible up
    G            Gsus4
for all of us to see
                  Am              
He said, bless the farmer, and the 
 Am7/G
teacher,
         F
and that preacher
   F         Dm                     
Who gave this Bible to my Momma, Who 
G          Gsus4
read it to me

[Chorus]
          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses
       Am                Am7/G
on the right side of the highway
F                            C      
why there's not four of them, now I 
        G
guess we know
C                 C/B
It's not what you take,
         Am                Am7/G
when you leave this world behind you,
    F                G                 
It's what you leave behind you when you 
C
go

[Outro]
          C            C/B
There are three wooden crosses
       Am         Am7/G  C
on the right side of the highway