The Shifting, Whispering Sands chords by Johnny Cash

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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I discovered the Valley of the Shifting
Whispering Sands
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While prospecting in a western state
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I saw the silent windmills
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The crumbling water tanks
The bones of the cattle
Picked clean by buzzards
Bleached by the desert sun
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I stumbled over a crumbling buck board
Nearly covered by the sand
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And stopping to rest
I heard a tinkling
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Whispering sound
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And suddenly realized that even though
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The wind was quiet
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The sand did not lie still
I seemed to be surrounded be a mystery
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So heavy and apperceive I
Could scarcely breath
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For weeks I wondered aimlessly in the valley
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Seeking answers to
the many questions
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That raced through my mind
Where was everyone? Why the white
Bones? The dry wells?
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D 
The barren valley where
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people must
Have lived and died
I sat down and buried
my face in my hands
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And resting I learned the
Secret of the Shifting, whispering Sands
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C 
How I managed to escape from
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The valley I don't know
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D 
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But now to pay my debt for being saved
I must tell you what I
Learned out on the desert
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so many years ago
When the day is oddly quiet
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And the breeze seems not to blow
One would think the sun is resting
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But you'll find this is not so
It is whispering softly whispering
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As it slowly moves along
And for those who stop and listen
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It will sing this mournful song
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Of sidewinders and the horn toads
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On the thorny chaparral
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In the sunny days and moonlight lights
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The lonely coyotes yell
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How the stars seem they can touch you
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As you lay and gaze on high
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At the heavens where your hoping
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You'll be going when you die