《The Shifting Whispering Sands》歌词

歌曲： The Shifting Whispering Sands

所属专辑：Talkin’ To Your Hear/A Touch of Velvet

歌手： Jim Reeves

时长： 05:36

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

I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands[00:00:14]

While prospecting for gold in one of our western states [00:00:18]

I saw the silent windmills the crumbling water tanks[00:00:22]

The bones of cattle and burrows picked clean by buzzards[00:00:29]

Bleached by the desert sun [00:00:34]

I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands[00:00:38]

And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound[00:00:42]

And suddenly realised that even though[00:00:46]

The wind was quiet the sand did not lie still [00:00:48]

I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy[00:00:54]

And oppressive I could scarcely breath[00:00:56]

For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley[00:00:59]

Seeking answers to the many questions[00:01:03]

That raced through my fevered mind [00:01:04]

Where was everyone why the white bones the dry wells[00:01:07]

The barren valley where people must have lived and died[00:01:12]

Finally I could go no farther my food and water gone[00:01:16]

I sat down and buried my face in my hands and resting thus[00:01:20]

I learnt the secret of the shifting whispering sands [00:01:24]

How I escaped from the valley I do not know[00:01:27]

But now to pay my final debt for being spared[00:01:30]

I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert[00:01:33]

So many years ago [00:01:37]

(When the day is oddly quiet[00:01:40]

And the breeze seems not to blow[00:01:46]

One would think the sand was resting[00:01:52]

But you'll find this is not so [00:01:57]

It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring[00:02:02]

As it slowly moves along[00:02:09]

And for those who stop and listen[00:02:13]

It will sing this mournful song [00:02:20]

Of sidewinders and the horntoads[00:02:25]

Of the Thorny Chaparral[00:02:31]

In the sunny days and moonlight nights[00:02:36]

The coyote's lonely yell [00:02:42]

How the stars seem you could touch them[00:02:47]

As you lay and gaze on high[00:02:53]

At the Heavens where we're hoping[00:02:58]

We'll be going when we die[00:03:04]

Yes it always whispers to me of the days of long ago[00:03:11]

When the settlers and the miners fought the crafty Navaho[00:03:17]

How the cattle roamed the valley happy people worked the land[00:03:23]

And now everything is covered by the shifting whispering sands[00:03:28]

How the miner left his buckboard went to work his claim that day[00:03:33]

And the burros broke their halters when they thought he'd gone to stay[00:03:37]

Wandered far in search of water on to Old Sidewinder's Well[00:03:42]

And there their bones picked clean by buzzards that were circling when they fell[00:03:45]

(How they found the ancient miner lying dead upon the sand[00:03:54]

After months they could but wonder if he died by human hand[00:04:05]

So they dug his grave and laid him on his back and crossed his hands[00:04:15]

And his secret still is hidden by the shifting whispering sands)[00:04:27]

This is what they whispered to me on the quiet desert air[00:04:41]

Of the people and the cattle and the miner lying there[00:04:51]

If you want to learn their secret wander through this quiet land[00:05:01]

And I'm sure you'll hear the story of the shifting whispering sands[00:05:09]

(Of the shifting whispering sands)[00:05:22]