WATCH this beautiful gospel song duet of today’s two greatest country music singers, Randy Travis and Josh Turner. “Three Wooden Crosses” is a song written by Kim Williams and Doug Johnson, and recorded by American country music singer Randy Travis. It was released in November 2002 from his album, Rise and Shine. The song became Travis’ 16th and final Number One single, his first since “Whisper My Name” in 1994. “Three Wooden Crosses” was named Song of the Year by the Country Music Association in 2003 and won a Dove Award from the Gospel Music Association as Country Song of the Year in 2004. Be blessed!
About Randy Travis
Randy Bruce Traywick, popularly known as Randy Travis, is an American country and gospel singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 20 studio albums in his singing career and more than 50 of his singles have charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. He has sold over 25 million records, and has earned 22 number one hits, six number one albums, six Grammy Awards, six CMA Awards, nine ACM awards, ten AMA awards, seven Dove awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Active from 1978 until being incapacitated by a stroke in 2013.
About Josh Turner
Raised in Hannah, South Carolina, Josh Turner started singing in church, taking the bass part in the Thankful Hearts quartet. Following his graduation from Hannah-Pamplico High School, he enrolled in Francis Marion University in nearby Florence, South Carolina. After a short spell at FMU, he decamped to Nashville, where he attended Belmont University and began to make inroads into country music, particularly after discovering Hank Williams’ music through the school’s library. Josh’s career gained momentum after his college graduation. He worked his way to a debut at the Grand Ole Opry on December 21, 2001, where he performed “Long Black Train,” an original inspired by Hank.
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Three Wooden Crosses
Randy Travis
A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher
Ridin’ on a midnight bus bound for Mexico
One’s 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 son’s 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 the Promised Land?”
As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker’s 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 blood-stained bible up
For all of us to see
He said “Bless the farmer, and the teacher, and the preacher
Who gave this Bible to my mama
Who read it to me”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
Source: LyricFind Songwriters: Kim Williams / Doug JohnsonThree Wooden Crosses lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc
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