The Shifting Whispering Sands-Jim Reeves

[ti:The Shifting Whispering Sands(Remastered) (Remaster)] [ar:Jim Reeves] [al:Midnight Together] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Shifting Whispering Sands (Remastered) - Jim Reeves (吉姆·里夫斯) [00:07.52]Written by：Mary Hadler/Jack Gilbert [00:15.04]I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering sands [00:18.84]While prospecting for gold in one of our western states [00:23.83]I saw the silent windmills the crumbling water tanks [00:30.23]The bones of cattle and burrows picked clean by buzzards [00:34.86]Bleached by the desert sun [00:39.00]I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard nearly covered by the sands [00:43.31]And stopping to rest I heard a tinkling whispering sound [00:47.68]And suddenly realised that even though [00:49.31]The wind was quiet the sand did not lie still [00:55.34]I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy [00:57.53]And oppressive I can scarcely breath [01:00.81]For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley [01:03.78]Seeking answers to the many questions [01:05.59]That raced through my fevered mind [01:08.31]Where was everyone why the white bones the dry wells [01:13.75]The barren valley where people must have lived and died [01:17.41]Finally I could go no farther my food and water gone [01:21.02]I sat down and buried my face in my hands and resting thus [01:24.85]I learnt the secret of the shifting whispering sands [01:28.58]How I manage to escaped from the valley I do not know [01:31.38]But now to pay my final debt for being spared [01:34.35]I must tell you what I learned out there on the desert [01:38.45]So many years ago [01:41.12]When the day is oddly quiet [01:47.38]And the breeze seems not to blow [01:52.93]One would think the sand was resting [01:58.71]But you'll find this is not so [02:03.69]It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring [02:09.99]As it slowly moves along [02:14.97]And for those who stop and listen [02:21.22]It will sing this mournful song [02:26.20]Of sidewinders and the horntoads [02:32.38]Of the Thorny Chaparral [02:37.72]In the sunny days and moonlight nights [02:43.69]The coyote's lonely yell [02:48.12]How the stars seem you could touch them [02:54.35]As you lay and gaze on high [02:59.80]At the heavens where we're hoping [03:05.42]We'll be going when we die