《The Shifting Whispering Sands》歌词

歌曲： The Shifting Whispering Sands

所属专辑：Talking to Your Heart

歌手： Jim Reeves

时长： 04:56

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The Shifting Whispering Sands - Jim Reeves[00:00:00]

Written by：Mary Hadler/Jack Gilbert[00:00:02]

I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands[00:00:12]

While prospecting for gold in one of our western states[00:00:15]

I saw the silent windmills the crumbling water tanks[00:00:19]

The bones of cattle and burrows picked clean by buzzards[00:00:24]

Bleached by the desert sun[00:00:27]

I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands[00:00:30]

And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound[00:00:34]

And suddenly realised that even though[00:00:38]

The wind was quiet the sand did not lie still[00:00:40]

I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy[00:00:45]

And oppressive I can scarcely breath[00:00:47]

For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley[00:00:50]

Seeking answers to the many questions[00:00:52]

That raced through my fevered mind[00:00:54]

Where was everyone why the white bones the dry wells[00:00:57]

The barren valley where people must have lived and died[00:01:01]

Finally I could go no farther my food and water gone[00:01:05]

I sat down and buried my face in my hands and resting thus[00:01:10]

I learnt the secret of the shifting whispering sands[00:01:14]

How I manage to escaped from the valley I do not know[00:01:17]

But now to pay my final debt for being spared[00:01:20]

I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert[00:01:23]

So many years ago[00:01:26]

When the day is oddly quiet[00:01:29]

And the breeze seems not to blow[00:01:34]

One would think the sand was resting[00:01:39]

But you'll find this is not so[00:01:44]

It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring[00:01:49]

As it slowly moves along[00:01:54]

And for those who stop and listen[00:01:58]

It will sing this mournful song[00:02:04]

Of sidewinders and the horntoads[00:02:08]

Of the Thorny Chaparral[00:02:14]

In the sunny days and moonlight nights[00:02:19]

The coyote's lonely yell[00:02:24]

How the stars seem you could touch them[00:02:28]

As you lay and gaze on high[00:02:34]

At the heavens where we're hoping[00:02:38]

We'll be going when we die[00:02:44]

Yes it always whispers to me of the days of long ago[00:02:50]

When the settlers and the miners fought the crafty navaho[00:02:56]

How the cattle roamed the valley happy people worked the land[00:03:00]

And now everything is covered by the shifting whispering sands[00:03:04]

How the miner left his buckboard went to work his claims that day[00:03:08]

And the burros broke their halters when they thought he'd gone to stay[00:03:13]

Wandered far in search of water on to old sidewinder's well[00:03:17]

And there their bones picked clean by buzzards that were circling when they fell[00:03:22]

How they found the ancient miner lying dead upon the sand[00:03:27]

After months they could but wonder if he died by human hand[00:03:37]

So they dug his grave and laid him on his back and crossed his hands[00:03:46]

And his secret still is hidden by the shifting whispering sands[00:03:56]

This is what they whispered to me on the quiet desert air[00:04:09]

Of the people and the cattle and the miner lying there[00:04:14]

If you want to learn their secret wander through this quiet land[00:04:26]

And I'm sure you'll hear the story of the shifting whispering sands[00:04:37]

On the shifting whispering sands[00:04:46]