"Three Wooden Crosses"(“三個木製十字架”)是由美國鄉村音樂創作歌手Randy Travis(蘭迪·特拉維斯)於2003年錄製的,在2003年被鄉村音樂協會(Country Music Association)評為年度最佳歌曲(Song of the Year),並贏得了福音音樂協會(Gospel Music Association)的2004年Dove獎(年度最佳鄉村歌曲 Country Song of the Year),算是當年大熱的鄉村歌曲。
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.
帶著這個問題,我們來到了歌詞的第二段,歌詞中提到,農民和教師在車禍中喪生,農民留下了當年的收成和一個兒子繼續追隨他的腳步,而老師留下了她教給孩子們的知識。歌詞中還提到,傳教士把他血跡斑斑的聖經交到妓女手中,問她是否可以“看見應許之地” (see the Promised Land,意思是指找到自己的幸福歸宿)。
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,
The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.?
An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
Did her best to give 'em all a better start.
An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand.