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The song talks about a fatal bus-truck accident.  Beside the bus driver (who survived, presumably along with whoever was in the truck), the bus was carrying four passengers: a farmer "on vacation", a teacher "seeking higher education", and a [[prostitute|hooker]] and a preacher "both of whom were searching for lost souls".

The song talks about a fatal bus-truck accident.  Beside the bus driver (who survived, presumably along with whoever was in the truck), the bus was carrying four passengers: a farmer "on vacation", a teacher "seeking higher education", and a [[prostitute|hooker]] and a preacher "both of whom were searching for lost souls".

As the song implies, three of the four passengers perished: the second verse mentions the farmer and the teacher (each of whom left behind a legacy), while the preacher asks the hooker "can't you see the Promised Land?" as he places a blood-stained Bible in her hands.

As the song implies, three of the four passengers perished: the second verse mentions the farmer and the teacher (each of whom left behind a legacy) were among the deceased, while the preacher asks the hooker "can't you see the Promised Land?" as he places a blood-stained Bible in her hands.

The narrator tells that he heard the story while in church the previous Sunday, and the preacher produced the Bible as proof.  But the preacher telling the story was not the passenger, he was the son of the hooker who took the Bible from the dying preacher and read it to him (presumably leaving her profession behind).

The narrator says that he heard the story while in church the previous Sunday, and the preacher produced the Bible as proof.  But the preacher telling the story was not the passenger on the bus, he was the son of the hooker who took the Bible from the (dying) preacher and read it to him (presumably leaving her profession behind).

[[Category: Country Songs]]

[[Category: Country Songs]]