The Shifting Whispering Sands chords by
Jim Reeves
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Key: G major•
Intro 1
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I discovered the val
Verse 1
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ley of the
shifting whispering sands
While prospecting for gold in one of
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our western states.
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I saw the silent windmills,
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the crumbling water tanks
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The bones of cattle and burrows,
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picked clean by buzzards
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Bleached by the desert sun.
Verse 2
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I stumbled over a crumbling buckboard
nearly covered by the sands
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And stopping to rest I heard
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a tinkling whispering sound
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And suddenly realised
that even though
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The wind was quiet the
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sand did not lie still.
Verse 3
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I seemed to be surrounded
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by a mystery so heavy
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And oppressive I
could scarcely breath
For days and weeks I wandered
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aimlessly in this valley
Seeking answers to the many
questions
That raced through my
fevered mind.
Verse 4
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Where was everyone why the white bones,
the dry wells
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The barren valley where people
must have lived and died
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Finally I could go no farther
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my food and water gone
I sat down and buried my face
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in my hands and resting thus
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I learnt the secret of the shifting
Verse 5
whispering sands.
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How I escaped from
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the valley I do not know
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But now to pay my final
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debt for being spared
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I must tell you what I learned
out there on the desert
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So many years ago.
Verse 6
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(When the day is oddly quiet
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And the breeze seems not to blow
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One would think the sand was resting
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But you'll find this is not so.
Verse 7
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It is whisp'ring softly whisp'ring
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As it slowly moves along
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And for those who stop and listen
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It will sing this mournful song.
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Of
Verse 8
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sidewinders and the horntoads
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Of the Thorny Chaparral
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In the sunny days and moonlight nights
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The coyote's lonely yell.
Verse 9
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How the stars seem you
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could touch them
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As you lay and gaze on high
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At the Heavens where we're hoping
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We'll be go ing when we die...)
Outro 1
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