The Shifting Whispering Sands-Jim Reeves

[ti:The Shifting Whispering Sands] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:Talkin' To Your Hear/A Touch o] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Shifting Whispering Sands - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯) [00:14.37]I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands [00:17.18] [00:18.12]While prospecting for gold in one of our western states [00:22.87]I saw the silent windmills the crumbling water tanks [00:27.36] [00:29.35]The bones of cattle and burrows picked clean by buzzards [00:34.04]Bleached by the desert sun [00:38.10]I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands [00:41.54] [00:42.54]And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound [00:45.41] [00:46.85]And suddenly realised that even though [00:48.79]The wind was quiet the sand did not lie still [00:51.73] [00:54.48]I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy [00:56.85]And oppressive I could scarcely breath [00:57.00] [00:59.84]For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley [01:02.52] [01:03.09]Seeking answers to the many questions [01:04.78]That raced through my fevered mind [01:07.52]Where was everyone why the white bones the dry wells [01:11.82] [01:12.89]The barren valley where people must have lived and died [01:15.33] [01:16.57]Finally I could go no farther my food and water gone [01:19.07] [01:20.07]I sat down and buried my face in my hands and resting thus [01:24.19]I learnt the secret of the shifting whispering sands [01:26.38] [01:27.50]How I escaped from the valley I do not know [01:30.50]But now to pay my final debt for being spared [01:33.38]I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert [01:37.56]So many years ago [01:38.50] [01:40.31]When the day is oddly quiet [01:44.51] [01:46.43]And the breeze seems not to blow [01:50.06] [01:52.01]One would think the sand was resting [01:57.75]But you'll find this is not so [02:01.19] [02:02.69]It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring [02:07.06] [02:09.06]As it slowly moves along [02:12.50] [02:13.88]And for those who stop and listen [02:17.82] [02:20.57]It will sing this mournful song [02:23.62] [02:25.06]Of sidewinders and the horntoads [02:29.81] [02:31.70]Of the Thorny Chaparral [02:33.57] [02:36.76]In the sunny days and moonlight nights [02:41.57] [02:42.70]The coyote's lonely yell [02:45.51] [02:47.01]How the stars seem you could touch them [02:53.20]As you lay and gaze on high [02:56.76] [02:58.82]At the Heavens where we're hoping [03:02.51] [03:04.59]We'll be going when we die [03:07.72] [03:11.98]Yes it always whispers to me of the days of long ago [03:16.04] [03:17.91]When the settlers and the miners fought the crafty Navaho [03:20.92] [03:23.10]How the cattle roamed the valley happy people worked the land [03:26.86] [03:28.05]And now everything is covered by the shifting whispering sands [03:31.10] [03:33.17]How the miner left his buckboard went to work his claim that day [03:37.36]And the burros broke their halters when they thought he'd gone to stay [03:40.73] [03:42.05]Wandered far in search of water on to Old Sidewinder's Well [03:44.98] [03:45.80]And there their bones picked clean by buzzards that were circling when they fell [03:51.01] [03:54.39]How they found the ancient miner lying dead upon the sand [04:03.26] [04:05.38]After months they could but wonder if he died by human hand [04:14.51] [04:15.76]So they dug his grave and laid him on his back and crossed his hands [04:27.25]And his secret still is hidden by the shifting whispering sands [04:36.82] [04:41.62]This is what they whispered to me on the quiet desert air [04:47.63] [04:51.00]Of the people and the cattle and the miner lying there [04:57.62] [05:01.18]If you want to learn their secret wander through this quiet land [05:05.11] [05:09.67]And I'm sure you'll hear the story of the shifting whispering sands [05:17.34] [05:22.84](Of the shifting whispering sands)