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The Shifting Whispering Sands
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Jim Reeves
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I discovered the valley of the shifting, whispering sands
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While prospecting for gold in one of our western states
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I saw the silent windmills, the crumbling water tanks
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The bones of cattle and burrows, picked clean by buzzards
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Bleached by the desert sun
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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 a tinkling, whispering sound
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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
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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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Seeking answers to the many questions
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That raced through my fevered mind
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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, my food and water gone
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I sat down and buried my face in my hands
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And resting thus, I learnt the secret of the shifting, whispering sands
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How I escaped from the valley, I do not know
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But now to pay my final 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
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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
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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
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Of sidewinders and the horn toads
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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
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How the stars seem you 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 going when we die
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