Key: A major
Intro 1
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Dm
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C
Verse 1
of the shifting whispering sands
many years ago.
I saw the bones of cattle
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G
picked clean by buzzards,
bleached by the desert suns.
I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard
nearly covered by the sands,
and stopping to rest,
and suddenly realized that even
though the wind was quiet,
the sands did not lie still.
so heavy and oppressive
I could scarcely breathe.
For weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley,
Where was everyone?
Why are the white bones?
I sat down and buried my
It was then I learned the secret
of the days of long ago,
when the settlers and the miners
How the cattle roamed the valley,
happy people work the land,
and now everything is covered
How they found the ancient miner
After months they could but wonder
So they dug his grave
and laid him on his back
And his secret still is hidden
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This is what they whispered to me
And I'm sure you'll hear the story
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Shifting, whispering sound
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsG Dm C F D
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