The Michael Berry Show

A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher

Riding on a midnight bus, bound for Mexico

One was headed for vacation, one for higher education

And two of them were searching for lost souls

That driver never ever saw the stop sign

And eighteen winners can't stop on a band

There are free wooden crosses on the right side of the highway

While 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 need behind you when you go

Boy, that's one of the prettiest songs ever

If you don't know the whole story, I don't want to ruin it to you

But it's a storytelling song

It just happens to be told by Gavin, beautiful voice

That won the country music association and the academy of country music song of the year

When it came out

You know, the guy who wrote that, Doug Johnson

It's written some good stuff, but the co-writer, Jim Williams

Holy wow, Jim Williams wrote some really good songs

Which I'll leave you to go look up for yourself

It was on this day 11 years ago

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