Three Wooden Crosses | Was the Song STOLEN from an Unknown Songwriter

"Three Wooden Crosses" is a song written by Doug Johnson and Kim Williams and sung by Randy Travis in 2002. Its verses are about four people who were traveling on a bus when it was hit by an eighteen wheeler, and its chorus is about three wooden crosses on the side of the highway memorializing those who died in the crash.

The song won the CMA and ACM for song of the year in 2003. But where did the songwriters get the idea for this song? Was the idea stolen from an unknown songwriter? Hear the story here!

LYRICS

Verse I
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

Chorus
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

Verse II
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

Chorus
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

Bridge
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"

Chorus
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

Songwriters: Doug Johnson / Kim Williams

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