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Jim Reeves

Genres: Country

Shifting Whispering Sands Lyrics - Jim Reeves

I discovered the valley of the shifting, whispering sands 

While prospecting for gold in one of our western states 

I saw the silent windmills, the crumbling water tanks 

The bones of cattle and burrows, picked clean by buzzards 

Bleached by the desert sun 

 

I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands 

And stopping to rest, I heard a tinkling, whispering sound 

And suddenly realized that even though the wind was quiet 

The sand did not lie still 

 

I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery 

So heavy and oppressive, I could scarcely breathe 

For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley 

Seeking answers to the many questions 

That raced through my fevered mind 

Where was everyone? Why the white bones, the dry wells? 

 

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The barren valley where people must have lived and died 

Finally, I could go no farther, my food and water gone 

I sat down and buried my face in my hands 

And resting thus, I learnt the secret of the shifting, whispering sands 

 

How I escaped from the valley, I do not know 

But now to pay my final debt for being spared 

I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert 

So many years ago 

 

When the day is oddly quiet 

And the breeze seems not to blow 

One would think the sand was resting 

But you'll find, this is not so 

 

It is whispering, softly whispering 

As it slowly moves along 

And for those who stop and listen 

It will sing this mournful song 

 

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Of sidewinders and the horn toads 

Of the thorny chaparral 

In the sunny days and moonlight nights 

The coyote's lonely yell 

 

How the stars seem you could touch them 

As you lay and gaze on high 

At the heavens where we're hoping 

We'll be going when we die 

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