Shifting Whispering Sands
Key: CEnglish
Intro
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G I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands
While prospecting in a western state.
I saw the silent windmills the crumbling Cwater tanks
The bones of the cattle picked clean by buzzards bleached by the desert sun.
I stumbled over a Gcrumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sand.
And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound
And sudCdenly realized that even though the wind was quiet F
The sand did not lie still. C
I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery
So heavy and oppressive I could scarD7cely breathe.
For weeks I wandered aimlessly in the valley G
Seeking answers to Cthe many questions that raced through my mind.
Where was ev'ryone? Why the white bones the dry wells
GThe barren valley where the people must have lived and died?
I sat down and buried my face in my hands.
And resting I Clearned the secret of the shifting whispering sands.
How I managed to escape from the valley I don't know.
But now Gto pay my debt for being saved I must tell you
What I learned out on the desert so many years ago.
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Verse
(When the G7day is hardly quiet and the breeze seems not to blow
One would Cthink the sand was resting but you'll find this is not so.
It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring as it slowly moves a-long. G7
And those who stop and listen it will sing this mournful song. C
Of side-winFders and the horn toad on the thorny chaparral C
In the sunD7ny days and the moonlight nights the lonely coyotes yell.) G
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Verse
How the stars seem they G7could touch you as you lay and gaze on high
At the heaCvens where you're hoping you'll be going when you die.