Key: C major
Verse 1
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I discovered the valley of the shifting whispering
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sands while prospecting for gold in one of our
western states. I saw the silent windmills,
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the crumbling water tanks, the bones of cattle and
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burrows picked clean by buzzards,
bleached by the desert suns. I stumbled over a crumbling
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buckboard nearly covered by the sand,
and stopping to rest, I heard a tinkling, whispering
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sound and suddenly realized that even though the wind was quiet,
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the sand did not lie still.
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I seemed to be surrounded by a mystery so heavy and oppressive,
I could scarcely breathe.
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For days and weeks I wandered aimlessly in this valley,
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that race through my fevered mind.
Why the white bones, the dry wells,
the barren valley where people
must have lived and died?
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Finally, I could go no farther,
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and water gone. I sat down and buried my face in my hands,
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and resting thus, I learned the secret
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of the shifting, whispering sands.
How I managed to escape from the valley,
I do not know.
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But now, to pay my final
out on the desert
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When the day is hotly fired
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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.
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It is whispering, softly whispering,
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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 of sidewinders and the horned toads,
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of the thorny chaparral.
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the coyotes lonely gather.
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How the stars sing,
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At the heavens where we're hoping
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we lie
Yes, it always whispers to me
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When the settlers an d the miners
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Navajo
How the cattle roamed the valley, happy people worked the land,
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an d now everything is covered
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How the miner left his buckboard,
When they thought he'd gone
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to stay.
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Wandered far in search of water
Onto old
Sidewinder's well
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And there, their bones
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picked clean by buzzards
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How they found the aged miner
After months they could but wonder
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So they dug his grave and
laid him on his back
and his secret still is hidden
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by the shifting, whispering sands.
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This is what they whispered to
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the miner ly ing there.
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and I'm sure you'll hear the story
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of the shifting, whispering sands.
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Shifting whisp 'ring stars
Outro 1
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