Randy travis three wooden crosses

2009 greatest hits album by Randy Travis

Three Wooden Crosses: The Inspirational Hits of Randy Travis is a compilation album by Randy Travis. Released in March 2009 by Word/Curb/Warner Bros., the album contains some of Travis' most popular gospel songs.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Three Wooden Crosses" (Kim Williams and Doug Johnson) – 3:22
2. "Four Walls" (Don Rollins, Harry Stinson and D. Vincent Williams) – 3:43
3. "Angels" (Harvey McNalley, Buck Moore and Troy Seals) – 3:46
4. "Just a Closer Walk with Thee" (Traditional) – 4:38
5. "In the Garden" (Charles Austin Miles) – 3:21
6. "Faith in You" (Tom Douglas, Joe Henry and Matt Rollins) – 3:48
7. "Love Lifted Me" (James Rowe and Howard E. Smith) – 3:11
8. "Blessed Assurance" (Fanny Crosby and Phoebe P. Knapp) – 3:28
9. "Softly and Tenderly" (Will L. Thompson) – 3:19
10. "Raise Him Up" (Robert Wilson Royer and Melvern Rivers Rutherford II) – 4:03
11. "He's My Rock, My Sword, My Shield" (Public Domain) – 2:30
12. "Sweet By and By" (Joseph P. Webster and S. Fillmore Bennett) – 2:27
13. "Everywhere We Go" (Michael Curtis and Randy Travis) – 2:31
14. "Rise and Shine" (Michael Curtis and Randy Travis) – 3:03
15. "Were You There?" (Unknown author) – 3:52
16. "He's Got the Whole World i
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A farmer and a teacher
A hooker and a preacher
Riding on a midnight bus
Bound for Mexico
One was heading for vacation
One for higher education
And two of them were searching for lost souls
That driver never ever saw the stop sign
And 18 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 80 acres
The faith and love for growing 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 lay 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 Bi
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